News - Mazars has effectively fired the Trump Organization, citing a non-waivable conflict, and determined that Trump's financial statements from 2011-20 should not be relied on, per a letter to Alan Garten filed in court today.
The rest of the letter
I apologize for not including in my initial tweet the cryptic reference to missing information about "the Matt Calimari Jr. apartment" which Donald Bender apparently cannot get for love or money. It's amazing stuff, obv.
Wrote up a quick item. Bottom line:
"The determination by Mazars that Trump’s financial statements over a full decade are not reliable, through no fault of its own, amounts to a declaration that it has been repeatedly misled by its client."
For Pawprints subscribers, I wrote a longer post trying to analyze how this Mazars letter found its way into public view and what it could mean. tl;dr it's an important, but incremental, piece of corroboration for Tish James' work. nycsouthpaw.com/p/what-the-maz…
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BuzzFeed has obtained through FOIA newly unredacted sections of the Mueller report that show the Special Counsel considered and rejected the idea of charging Donald Trump Jr. and Roger Stone with computer crimes. buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
The SCO also looked at charging J.D. Gordon for changing the Republican platform to weaken the language on supporting Ukraine—a live issue back in 2016 as much as today because that war has been going on so long—but the prosecutors decided they couldn’t prove Russian influence.
Reporting has long been that J.D. Gordon told people the direction to change the language came directly from Trump. npr.org/2017/12/04/568…
“Two individuals were arrested this morning in Manhattan for an alleged conspiracy to launder cryptocurrency that was stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex, … valued at approximately $4.5 billion. Thus far, law enforcement has seized over $3.6 billion.” justice.gov/opa/pr/two-arr…
That’s just …. a lot of money for one law enforcement action.
Like, how many surveillance vans will they buy?
DAG Lisa Monaco says it’s “the department’s largest financial seizure ever.”
I feel so strangely disconnected from pretty much the entirety of Covid discourse I see. I thought I’d offer my own testimony in a thread, mostly to see if it’s familiar to anyone else.
In my little slice of the world, when Omicron came in mid-December and testing lines started stretching down the blocks, govt officials were pretty adamant that they would not be reimposing mitigation measures like indoor dining restrictions. But some restaurants closed anyway.
I was planning to fly to California to see my family over the holidays, so I voluntarily cut out a lot of activities—indoor dining, movie theaters, etc.—but no one ordered me to. And obv I could still travel from a place with lots of Omicron to a place with less.
Kennedy: I don’t know about this 15-part balancing test, Stephen. Is it statistically based?
O’Connor: Where do you see undue burden in this data?
Breyer: You need to look at the regressions I’ve done on tabs 4-19, summarized on 20.
Kennedy: Ahh
O’Connor: Oh this is beautiful
Pace Politico, no conservatives joined Breyer’s opinion in June Medical Services. The Chief Justice filed a concurrence, and every other conservative dissented.
Kennedy joined in WWH v. Hellerstedt, but he also wrote part of the decision in Casey before Breyer was on the Court.
The Prince's admissions:
- He met Epstein c. 1999
- Epstein and Maxwell attended his 40th bday
- He's been on Epstein's plane, stayed at his island, and at three of his other residences.
- He did the 2019 Newsnight interview.
- He pledged to assist the US criminal investigation.
In order to understand the answer, you have to read it side by side with the complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…. It's what you'd expect, but this sequence has me scratching my head a little. (Complaint / Answer)
Here’s the Supreme Court’s opinion shutting down Trump’s effort to block the 1/6 committee. Justice Thomas would’ve granted the application; Justice Kavanaugh filed a lengthy statement (which I’ve not yet read). supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf…
While granting the 1/6 committee what it needs, the Court has largely hollowed out the DC Circuit’s opinion in the case, criticizing it for reaching the question of the effect of Trump’s status as a former president when it had already held none of his privilege claims would fly.
Then Kavanaugh goes a step further and says if they had reached the question of Trump’s status he would’ve voted the other way, which takes some of the sting out of the criticism of the court below for writing a bunch of dicta.