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Lying Rudy Giuliani, the purveyor of lies and omissions regarding all things con artist, may, in the end, be the hammer which strikes down the aberrant nail. How you ask? After all, we haven't heard word one from the liar in at least two weeks, and then to indicate that yeah, someone, or someones, may have colluded with Russia, but it wasn't the con artist.
Back in the 80s, when Rudy was a prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, it was his office which laid the groundwork for, and later became the gold standard of, RICO prosecutions against the mafia. Those investigations involved tying together disparate crimes through wiretaps, recorded conversations, insider information, and documentation.
Along comes Michael Cohen who last week testified before Congress about the crimes he was instructed to perform by the con artist, the documentation to substantiate those crimes, and alluded to several other crimes he was aware of. Interestingly, all these crimes being done at the behest of the con artist and his organization, are nearly identical to the way the mafia operates. No direct orders to kill someone, but the meaning of, "I wish that guy wasn't such a pain" was abundantly clear.
In the same manner, when the con artist took aside James Comey, making sure no one else was around, and told him, "Can't you let this go?" in regards to the Flynn investigation, it was clear to anyone what the con artist was instructing Comey to do. Drop the investigation, also known as obstruction of justice. As Cohen stated during his testimony:
“Everybody’s job at the Trump Organization is to protect Mr. Trump. Every day most of us knew we were coming and we were going to lie for him about something. That became the norm.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/opinion/rudy-giuliani-trump.html
Back in the 80s, when Rudy was a prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, it was his office which laid the groundwork for, and later became the gold standard of, RICO prosecutions against the mafia. Those investigations involved tying together disparate crimes through wiretaps, recorded conversations, insider information, and documentation.
Along comes Michael Cohen who last week testified before Congress about the crimes he was instructed to perform by the con artist, the documentation to substantiate those crimes, and alluded to several other crimes he was aware of. Interestingly, all these crimes being done at the behest of the con artist and his organization, are nearly identical to the way the mafia operates. No direct orders to kill someone, but the meaning of, "I wish that guy wasn't such a pain" was abundantly clear.
In the same manner, when the con artist took aside James Comey, making sure no one else was around, and told him, "Can't you let this go?" in regards to the Flynn investigation, it was clear to anyone what the con artist was instructing Comey to do. Drop the investigation, also known as obstruction of justice. As Cohen stated during his testimony:
“Everybody’s job at the Trump Organization is to protect Mr. Trump. Every day most of us knew we were coming and we were going to lie for him about something. That became the norm.”
Indicting the whole Trump Organization as a “corrupt enterprise” could also help prosecutors address the thorny question of whether the president can be indicted in office; they could lay out a whole pattern of criminal activity, indict numerous players — including perhaps Trump family members — and leave the president himself as a named, unindicted co-conspirator. Such an action would allow investigators to make public all the known activity for Congress and the public to consider as part of impeachment hearings or re-election. It would also activate powerful forfeiture tools for prosecutors that could allow them to seize the Trump Organization’s assets and cut off its income streams.
The irony will be that if federal prosecutors decide to move against President Trump’s empire and family together, he’ll have one man’s model to thank: his own TV lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who perfected the template to tackle precisely that type of criminal enterprise.
The irony will be that if federal prosecutors decide to move against President Trump’s empire and family together, he’ll have one man’s model to thank: his own TV lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who perfected the template to tackle precisely that type of criminal enterprise.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/opinion/rudy-giuliani-trump.html
