How many people in the US know that at least 165 people have been charged with assaulting and/or resisting police on Jan. 6th—a number that is growing?
Trump’s alternative reality thrives on millions not knowing or believing that fact, through an atomized and vilified press.
"A Federal Judge Holds 'Kraken' Lawyers' Feet to the Fire at Sanctions Hearing. Lin Wood Tried to Distance Himself from It All." lawandcrime.com/2020-election/… via @lawcrimenews
For what it's worth, I'm seeing folks claiming that Haller was crying, or asking about whether she did. She sounded nervous and perhaps awkward, with a shaky voice.
More than that? I didn't see or hear it.
As a caveat:
While I listened to the proceedings in full, my eyes weren't entirely fixed upon the screen throughout the entire six-hour ordeal.
Welcome back, all. Is everyone caffeinated and refreshed?
Judge: "As promised, we will begin with Mr. Wood."
Wood: "What I wanted to make clear is, as I said at the beginning," he does not believe the court has jurisdiction over him and that he did not sign the pleading.
"I do not have a slash-s signature line," Wood adds.
The parties are beginning to connect virtually to the proceedings.
Proceedings are beginning in a very bustling Zoom court.
Powell and Wood's co-counsel Stefanie Junttila, Scott Hagerstrom, Julia Haller, Brandon Johnson, Howard Kleinhendler, and Gregory Rohl are also in attendance, by court order.
Avenatti gets 30 months for extorting Nike. Developing.
"'TV and Twitter, Your Honor, Mean Nothing': Tearful Fallen Trump Foe Michael Avenatti Receives Two-and-Half-Year Sentence for Extorting Nike" lawandcrime.com/high-profile/t… via @lawcrimenews
The government did not recommend a particular sentence, but prosecutors previously intimated that they concurred with the probation department's call for an eight year sentence.
So as many of you are surmising, the judge's sentence is much lighter than that.
Judge Gardephe noted multiple reasons for that, including avoiding sentencing disparities with a man who was never charged: Mark Geragos, Avenatti's co-cousel in the case.
He also cited Avenatti's brutal pretrial lockup in MCC, when it was in lockdown years ago.
Michael Avenatti's sentencing for extorting Nike is about to begin.
Read more about his sentencing judge recently rejecting his bid for a new trial on a number of grounds—including the fears of an ex-employee turned state's witness.
This is the backstory of one of the files Duggar is accused of receiving and possessing, made by convicted child rapist and human trafficker Peter Scully.
In this episode, I interviewed a correspondent who covered Scully's crime scene in the Philippines.
It's less the story of Duggar's case than the human trafficking operation behind what one federal investigator described as one of the "Top Five worst of the worst" files allegedly found on his computer.
—and the financiers, alleged accomplices and networks that enabled it.