🚨BREAKING: @TheJusticeDept investigated as recently as this summer the roles of Elliott Broidy—a top fundraiser for Trump—and Abbe Lowell—a lawyer for Jared Kushner—in an alleged scheme to offer a BRIBE in exchange for clemency for a tax crimes convict.
A federal judge unsealed heavily redacted court documents Tuesday that disclosed the investigation into alleged ILLEGAL lobbying and #bribery.
Twice convicted felon Elliott Broidy, pleaded guilty in October to a charge related to a diffèrent illegal lobbying scheme.🙄
Billionaire Sanford Diller enlisted help in securing clemency for a Berkeley psychologist, Hugh Baras, who got a 30-month prison sentence for tax evasion and improperly claiming Social Security benefits.🧐
In the alleged #bribery-for-#pardon scheme, Dillet would make “a substantial political contribution” to an unspecified recipient in exchange for the #pardon.
Diller died in February 2018, and there is no evidence that the effort continued after his death.
SO MUCH CORRUPTION.🤬
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🚨BREAKING: Ivanka Trump was deposed Tuesday by the DC AG's office as part of its lawsuit alleging that the Trump Org and Presidential Inaugural Committee abused >$1 million by "grossly overpaying" for use of event space at the Trump hotel in Washington.
Depositions of witnesses have been underway over the past several weeks. Tom Barrack, chairman of the inaugural committee, was deposed on 11/17.
The AG's office has also subpoenaed records from Barrack, Ivanka Trump, Melania Trump, and Rick Gates.🧐
Convicted felon Rick Gates "personally managed" discussions with the Trump hotel about event space and told Ivanka that he was "a bit worried about the optics of PIC [Presidential Inaugural Committee] paying Trump Hotel a high fee and the media making a big story out of it."
🔥COVER UP: @realDonaldTrump has discussed granting “pre-emptive” #pardons to his children, Kush, and Rudy Giuliani—and spoke with Rudy about pardoning him as recently as last week.
Don Jr was under investigation by Bob Mueller for contacts with Russians trying to smear Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign, but he was never charged.
Kush LIED to the Feds about his contacts with foreigners for his security clearance, but was given one anyway by Trump.🤬
Kremlin🇷🇺Barbie Ivanka is under investigation by the Manhattan DA for allegedly taking ILLEGAL tax write-offs on millions of dollars in consulting fees.🧐
BREAKING: Great news! @Pfizer to submit an Emergency Use Authorization request to @US_FDA *TODAY* for its #coronavirus vaccine—they’ll will distribute the #vaccine "within hours after authorization.”
Pfizer has enough to dose ~12.5 million Americans this year, much more in 2021.
Pfizer’s #vaccine was 95% effective at preventing #COVID19 and had NO serious safety issues.
✅94% effective in people >65, who are more likely to develop life-threatening illness
✅Safety data available for 100 children between 12-15 yo
Once Pfizer and BioNTech file their application, the data will be scrutinized by regulators — including at a full-day advisory committee meeting in which external scientists will meet to make recommendations to the agency on whether it should clear the vaccine for broader use.🧐
🚨BREAKING: Two separate New York State #fraud investigations into Trump and his businesses—1 CRIMINAL and 1 civil—have expanded to include tax write-offs on millions of dollars in consulting fees, some of which appear to have gone to @IvankaTrump.💥
The inquiries —a CRIMINAL investigation by Manhattan DA Cy Vance Jr and a civil one by the state attorney general, @NewYorkStateAG James are being conducted independently, bBth offices *issued subpoenas* to the Trump Organization in recent weeks for records related to the fees.🔥
Trump reduced his taxable income by deducting ~$26 million in fees to unidentified consultants as a “business expense” between 2010 and 2018.
Some of those fees appear to have been paid to Ivanka.🧐
⚠️NO SURPRISE: the surge of new #coronavirus cases is WORST in states whose leaders neglected to enforce virus containment efforts or failed to implement mask mandates, such as #SouthDakota and #NorthDakota, 2 of the 3 hottest #COVID19 zones in the world.
A relationship between policies and #coronavirus cases is CLEAR:
States with more consistent control policies—such as in New England—avoided a summer surge and are now having a smaller fall surge, as opposed to states that rolled them back very quickly like #Florida or #Texas.
For a while, its residents were spared. Now, nearly 1 in 10 North Dakotans have tested positive for #coronavirus — about a third of those in just the past 2 weeks — and **1 in 1,000 have DIED of #COVID19**.😱
ENCOURAGING: Pfizer says the vaccine is >94% effective in adults over 65 years old, who have higher risk for serious #COVID19 and death, and added; “Efficacy was consistent across age, race and ethnicity demographics.”
Based on current projections, Pfizer and its partner expect to produce globally up to 50 million vaccine doses in 2020 (2 doses needed for each person vaccinated) and up to 1.3 billion doses in 2021.🙏