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25 Dec, 19 tweets, 7 min read
You can't erase history: Charles Kushner, a multimillionaire real estate executive, philanthropist and a top Democratic donors, sentenced to years in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion, witness tampering, making illegal campaign donations nytimes.com/2005/03/05/nyr…
Bernard B. Kerik, a former New York police commissioner who rose to national prominence, was sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to eight felony charges, including tax fraud and lying to White House officials. nytimes.com/2010/02/19/nyr…
Michael R. Milken, the once-powerful financier who came to symbolize a decade of excess, was sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday for violating Federal securities laws and committing other crimes. nytimes.com/1990/11/22/bus…
Former Rep Duncan D. Hunter of California was sentenced to federal prison for funneling more than $150,000 from his campaign coffers to pay for a lavish lifestyle including vacations, private school tuition and even airline travel fees for pet rabbits. nytimes.com/2020/03/17/us/…
Ex-Rep. Chris Collins Gets 26-Month Prison Sentence in Insider Trading Case; Former Republican congressman had pleaded guilty to giving his son nonpublic information about a drug company. nytimes.com/2020/01/17/nyr…
Four former Blackwater Worldwide security guards were convicted and immediately jailed Wednesday for their roles in a deadly 2007 shooting in Baghdad’s Nisour Square that marked a bloody nadir in America’s war in Iraq. nytimes.com/2014/10/23/us/…
Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, was convicted on Tuesday in his financial fraud trial, bringing a dramatic end to a politically charged case that riveted the capital.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/us/…
Roger Stone Is Convicted of Impeding Investigators in a Bid to Protect Trump;
Mr. Stone, a longtime informal adviser to President Trump, obstructed one of Congress’s Russia investigations and lied to lawmakers. nytimes.com/2019/11/15/us/…
A federal district judge sentenced a Philip Esformes to 20 years in prison today after being found guilty in the largest health care fraud scheme, a decades-long scheme of kickbacks and money laundering in connection with fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid
2017: Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio committed a crime by defying a court order to stop detaining suspected undocumented immigrants, a judge ruled on Monday, in the latest rebuke for a once-popular politician who was voted out of office last year. nytimes.com/2017/07/31/us/…
2017: President Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the F.B.I. about conversations with the Russian ambassador last December nyti.ms/2keM7BI
Here is the whole list... justice.gov/pardon/pardons…
2014: D’Souza pleads guilty to illegally making donations through straw donors to the 2012 New York Senate campaign of Wendy E. Long, a Republican and a friend from their college days at Dartmouth nytimes.com/2014/05/21/nyr…
2007: Conrad M. Black, the gregarious press tycoon also known as Lord Black of Crossharbour, was found guilty today by a Chicago jury of three counts of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of justice. nytimes.com/2007/07/14/bus…
2015: Dwight Lincoln Hammond, Jr.and his son, Steven Dwight Hammond, sentenced to five years in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken for arsons they committed on federal lands. 

justice.gov/usao-or/pr/eas…
2018: The Army has charged a Special Forces soldier with premeditated murder in a shooting that happened nearly nine years ago in southern Afghanistan, according to military documents obtained by The New York Times nyti.ms/2GhGVro
2018: A ex US representative from Texas was sentenced to 10 years in prison, ordered to pay about $1 million after being convicted of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars meant for charity and using for personal expenses and his political campaigns nyti.ms/2D6NuKk
2008: U.S. Soldiers Are Charged in Iraqi Death nytimes.com/2008/08/03/wor… American soldiers charged in the death of an Iraqi being held in American custody. First Lt. Michael C. Behenna charged with pre-meditated murder, assault, and obstruction of justice
2011: Ex Governor Rod Blagojevich Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison nytimes.com/2011/12/08/us/…

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25 Dec
In case you missed it, the sentencing memo from DOJ prosecutors who along with the FBI spent years of their lives bringing a case against a guy convicted of one of the largest Medicare fraud cases in US history. A year later, Trump commuted what is left of his 20 yr jail term.
If you want to read the entire memo, here it is int.nyt.com/data/documentt…. And here is a second related memo.
And here is the response--just abt a year later--from President Trump justice.gov/pardon/page/fi…
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24 Dec
JUST POSTED: A case study in how to get out of jail--if you are rich and have been convicted of largest Medicare fraud case in US history. Donate money to a charity. Get them to intervene with Trump. Boom. You are free. With @kenvogel & @JesseDrucker nytimes.com/2020/12/24/us/…
FYI, was fascinating to read as he all but begged a federal judge last year to not give him a long prison sentence. Judge still sentenced him to 20 years. So Philip Esformes found another route: a religious group his dad donated money to push Trump to get him out of jail
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23 Dec
UPDATE: A federal court judge in DC on today (Tuesday Dec. 22) imposed a temporary restraining order on helium drilling project on pristine federal lands in Utah that I wrote about in SUNDAY NYT. int.nyt.com/data/documentt…
Here is the story. This was one of four projects that I focused on in this story. It is a temporary restraining order, which is very unusual, as Interior has not even issued the drilling permit yet. But judge agreed that his action would be moot if he waited.
Here is the story from Sunday's paper. Final approval of this Utah project had been expected as soon as Dec. 23, with construction slated to begin immediately . nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/…
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23 Dec
Trump pardon fest begins. Among those at head of the line: two ex Republican House lawmakers convicted of federal crimes.
Other pardons include George Papadopoulos, former Trump campaign aide who has spent months sending tweets praising Trump and anything and everything having to do with him.
We did a piece a few weeks ago that discussed George Papadopoulos and his pursuit of a pardon, among others. @kenvogel nytimes.com/2020/11/25/us/…
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20 Dec
MINING THREAD PART 4: Industrial-scale helium project will be give FINAL approve by Trump Interior Depart(not mining but drilling) as soon as this week in one of most iconic locations in US. An unspoiled area of majestic beauty. Pics by Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance/Bloxham
The plan near here, in part controlled by Interior's Bureau of Land Management: one of the largest helium drilling operations in the US. Would start small, to prove the reserves. But backers of project could ultimately produce "5 to 10% of world annual helium production"
As BLM evaluated this project, it asked a series of questions.
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19 Dec
MINING THREAD PART 3: Let's turn to South Dakota's famed Black Hills and the land of near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. A MASSIVE uranium mine is planned, in part on federal land. But here is the rub. All of this territory is still claimed by Sioux Nation of Indians
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Here is a critical EPA document that looks at the damage this project will do to groundwater in the area. Read it yourself. EPA, based on consultant study, argues harm will be in Uranium ore area, not drinking water area. Tribe is not convinced. epa.gov/sites/producti…
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