"'I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil,' [Miller's cousin and former babysitter Alisa] Kasmer wrote. 'I grieve what youโve become, Stephen โฆ. I will never knowingly let evil into my life, no matter whose blood it carriesโincluding my own.'
"Kasmer points out that she and Miller were raised Jewish with stories about surviving pogroms, ghettos, and the Holocaust.
"'We celebrated holidays each year with the reminder to stand up and say "never again." But what you are doing breaks that sacred promise. It breaks everything we were taught,' she said."
And here we go. The plan seems to be to go full ๐พ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, to turn the nation into a military police state. Theyโre telling each other to be careful what they write down, but theyโve already written down too much. (1/7)
This thread contains excerpts from the governmentโs June 2022 sentencing memorandum in ๐๐ฃ๐๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ฉ๐๐ฉ๐๐จ ๐ค๐ ๐ผ๐ข๐๐ง๐๐๐ ๐ซ. ๐๐๐๐จ๐ก๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ฌ๐๐ก๐ก, No. 20 Cr. 330 (S.D.N.Y.).
โSupport for the law firms that didnโt make deals has been growing inside the offices of corporate executives. At least 11 big companies are moving work away from law firms that settled with the administration or are givingโor intend to giveโmore business to firms that have been targeted but refused to strike deals, according to general counsels at those companies and other people familiar with those decisions.โ
โIn interviews, general counsels expressed concern about whether they could trust law firms that struck deals to fight for them in court and in negotiating big deals if they werenโt willing to stand up for themselves against Trump. The general counsel of a manufacturer of medical supplies said that if firms facing White House pressure โdonโt have a hard line,โ they donโt have any line at all.โ