A bigger fish from Cohen tapes

About two months before Election Day in 2016, Donald Trump and his former lawyer (and self-described “fixer”) Michael Cohen were chatting about how to convince a former Playboy model, Karen McDougal, to keep quiet about what she described as a long-term affair with the presidential candidate.


“We’ll have to pay,” Cohen said, according to a recording of the conversation that CNN obtained and broadcast Tuesday night.


“Pay with cash,” Trump appears to respond.


“No, no,” Cohen says. Earlier in the conversation Cohen suggested that he “open a company for the transfer of all of that info” to the National Enquirer and its parent company, American Media Inc. AMI’s chairman, David Pecker, is a friend of the president and he is also referred to on the tape. The Enquirer had already purchased McDougal’s account of her affair with Trump earlier in 2016 and then never published it. Trump and Cohen appear to be discussing a second payment to McDougal (and there is no indication that it was ever made).


“I’ve spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up,” Cohen tells Trump. “So, I’m all over that. And, I spoke to Allen about it.”
 
We bless war criminals with positions in punditry, you really think these people will ever really be held accountable?
 
evince said:
he has been called to a grand jury evil fucking asshole
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Grand Juries are as unconstitutional as it gets. Prosecutors use liars and bullshit to convince a "jury" to hand down indictments, often with the accused not even knowing about it, simply because there is not enough evidence to file legitimate legal charges.
 
Mueller needs to lock onto this Allen Weisselberg guy.

Put him through the wringer and see what squeezes out.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Weisselberg



Allen Howard Weisselberg (born August 15, 1947) is an American businessman. He is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of The Trump Organization.
Weisselberg was born in Brooklyn, New York[1] and went to Thomas Jefferson High School. He received an accounting degree from Pace College in 1970.[2]
Following college, Weisselberg worked for real estate magnate Fred Trump and The Trump Organization. By the late 1980s, he was controller of the organization and worked under CFO Stephen Bollenbach.[2] In 2000, Weisselberg was named Vice President of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts. He also served as treasurer of the Donald J. Trump Foundation.[2]
On January 11, 2017, it was announced that Weisselberg would serve as a trustee at the Trump Organization alongside Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr while Donald Trump serves as President of the United States.[1] Weisselberg lived in Nassau County on Long Island as of 2005.[1] He appeared as a judge on the seventh episode of the second season of The Apprentice.
 
RB 60 said:
Grand Juries are as unconstitutional as it gets. Prosecutors use liars and bullshit to convince a "jury" to hand down indictments, often with the accused not even knowing about it, simply because there is not enough evidence to file legitimate legal charges.
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How can it be unconstitutional when it is required by the 5th Amendment for federal (felony?) indictments?

If there is not enough evidence for legitimate legal charges the jury will not convict (and it is unlikely the prosecutor will even proceed with the case)
 
Flash said:
How can it be unconstitutional when it is required by the 5th Amendment for federal (felony?) indictments?

If there is not enough evidence for legitimate legal charges the jury will not convict (and it is unlikely the prosecutor will even proceed with the case)
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No, they can't convict, but they can recommend an indictment without enough evidence to press legal charges. I've seen it happen.
 
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