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Category Archives: Corruption

It may not be much, but it’s the best we can do

Saturday, August 24, 2019

This is rather amazing: If Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is to be believed, the U.S. State Department aided his efforts to pressure a foreign government to dig up dirt on Trump’s political enemies, according to a report from ABC News on Thursday. Giuliani claimed the State Department put Ukrainian official Andriy Yermak “in contact […]

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Another in an endless series of modest proposals

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

It appears that William Barr is about to be held in contempt of Congress, but, this being an era in which our judiciary is now overflowing with rightwing ideologues, it is highly likely that it will take years for court battles to enforce the citation to play out, by which time he will either be out […]

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Meanwhile, as always, under the radar…

Monday, May 20, 2019

One of the many unfortunate side effects of the blatant criminality emanating from the White House and Attorney General is the fact that the regular run of the mill corruption that is the hallmark of this administration goes largely unremarked. One of the most corrupt of our regulators is Ajit Pai, the FCC Chair. Today […]

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Something to investigate

Monday, December 3, 2018

The Democrats will have a lot on their plates once they take over in the House. There’s plenty to investigate. Here’s hoping they won’t forget to haul the corrupt Ajit Pai of the FCC before one or more committees, and look into the FCC’s handling of the process through which he did away with net […]

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Friday Night Music and More

Friday, June 15, 2018

This has been a banner day for fans of justice, in that Paul Manafort is where he belongs. I found it interesting that, from what I read, a number of experts in the field (I never practiced criminal law) felt it was unlikely that he’d be sent to jail. Personally, based on the allegations, I […]

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Gilded Age, part 2

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

A few days ago, I said I’d be putting up a series of posts comparing our present Age of Corruption, Plutocracy and Kakistocracy to the Gilded Age. Herewith, installment two. Back around the 80s, the Republican Party began promoting itself as the party of new ideas. The ideas seemed to consist of inventive ways to […]

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A few thoughts about Michael Cohen

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Donald Trump’s fixer lawyer has admitted that he paid porn star Stormy Daniels for her silence during the presidential campaign: Cohen stated: “Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly. The payment to Ms. Clifford […]

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Res Ipsa Loquitor

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

“Res Ipsa Loquitor” is one of those legal doctrines we learn about in law school, but never or, hardly ever, run into in the real world. This explanation from Wikipedia will do: In the common law of torts, res ipsa loquitur (Latin for “the thing speaks for itself”) is a doctrine that infers negligence from […]

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Corruption of the first order

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

It’s really not hard to see why Ivanka is Trump’s favorite. She’s just like him. When I read this a few things came to mind. The gist of it: Ivanka Trump told me yesterday from Berlin that she has begun building a massive fund that will benefit female entrepreneurs around the globe. Both countries and […]

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We really can’t complain

Thursday, January 12, 2017

A friend sent me this link, to an opinion piece in the Boston Globe that makes the obvious point that we have been “hacking” election for years, so we really don’t have much right to be outraged by what the Russians may have done. Some of our politicians tell us we are a Christian country, […]

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