Tom Barrack’s bail hearing is starting now. His codefendant Grimes was just released on an agreed bail package.
The court says it has received an agreed bail package for Barrack too. Sounds like he will be getting out today.
Full name: Matthew Grimes, 27
You jokesters.
They’re dickering over whether Tom Barrack can be fitted with a GPS monitoring device in California by the end of the day today. Barrack’s team says he is trying to get to New York on Monday for arraignment in EDNY and they wanted monitoring to start then.
We’re back. The ankle bracelet and GPS monitoring on Barrack will start today.
Barrack’s three sureties: 1. Rochelle Barrack 2. Thomas J Barrack III 3. Jonathan Grunzweig (Colony Capital’s executive director)
Rachelle* Barrack is the correct spelling; that’s his ex-wife.
Barrack’s bond is $250 million, Politico reports.
DOJ confirms the details.
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I consider myself something of a connoisseur of pre-conference call hold music, and the LA court that will hold Barrack’s bail hearing today has the worst I’ve ever encountered.
It loops abruptly maybe every twenty-five seconds as though something is going to happen and then after five minutes dumps you off the line and makes you dial back in. Abusive.
EDNY has now given me the right info. Sigh. Joining in the middle of things- They’re reading out a set of detailed release conditions for Barrack’s codependent Grimes, which EDNY says it has agreed to and the court is approving. We’ll see if Barrack gets the same deal.
This interview is clarifying, and a little infuriating. It's the best explanation I've seen for why the public health messaging has seemed so flummoxed. statnews.com/2021/07/23/how…
On putting the masks back on indoors
For people who have been vaccinated, probably the most important question right now is whether and how likely it is that a breakthrough infection they contract could spread to someone in their life who hasn't been vaccinated, like a young child or grandchild...
“Thomas Barrack, who served as chairman of the 2017 inaugural fund for then-President Donald Trump, has been arrested on federal charges, several law enforcement officials told NBC News on Tuesday.” cnbc.com/2021/07/20/tho…
Is that all the Trump finance chairmen, then?
Here’s Barrack, in the blue scarf, with Trump at the 2017 inauguration. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
Again, you’ve probably heard Ron Johnson or Ted Cruz say that there weren’t guns among January 6th rioters, but that claim is clearly false. Most people there were not stopped and searched, and when someone is put under the spotlight it often becomes evident he was carrying.