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JollyRancherHard 2 points ago +2 / -0

The whole point of the United States is we are ruled by president and not a king.

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JollyRancherHard 3 points ago +3 / -0

What journalism? There's no article here. It's just what the GAW user posted

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JollyRancherHard 2 points ago +2 / -0

Why would any of Seth Rich's files be classified? He didn't work for the government.

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JollyRancherHard 2 points ago +2 / -0

Why would gag order apply to his testimony?

Or to put it another way. Why would Trump need to say anything in his defense testimony that had anything to do with the gag order.

The gag order is pretty limited.

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JollyRancherHard 3 points ago +3 / -0

Have read the indictment against the GRU officers?

According to that they know who passed the file to Seth Rich and when the transfer occurred.

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JollyRancherHard 1 point ago +1 / -0

Thanks.

And watching the getting John Gotti show it's clear that it wasn't a mystery who killed Paul Castellano. Everyone was congratulating John Gotti right afterwards. Everyone understood. He just took over the family.

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JollyRancherHard 3 points ago +3 / -0

It's all over Twitter.

That was an upsate added to CNNs original story.

Another big Jack Smith thing dropped too

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JollyRancherHard 3 points ago +3 / -0

Supreme Court already responded.

the Supreme Court said it will expedite consideration of Smith’s petition to rule on the question of whether Trump deserves immunity. Trump has until December 20 to file a response.

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JollyRancherHard 2 points ago +2 / -0

He waited 30 months to bring charges

He was appointed November 18, 2022. The DC indictment came out Aug 1, 2023.

The FL indictment came out June 9th, 2023.

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JollyRancherHard 1 point ago +1 / -0

That's how indictments work.

The only person named in an indictment is the person being charged with a crime.

That way someone can't say SO and SO was named in an indictment and smear someone who wasn't being charged with a crime.

It doesn't mean, the person's identity is super secret. There's often a lot of clues. The Michael Cohen indictment had a doozy of a clue.

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JollyRancherHard 1 point ago +1 / -0

No.

if the results don't line up.....like you feed it 100 ballots and get 98 ballots counted, the whole batch is redone. And only after it's ok'ed are the votes counted.

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JollyRancherHard 1 point ago +1 / -0

Well Gotti killed the head of his family just as the 5 family trial was about to go to trial. Gotti knew that Paul Castellano would get evidence of his drug dealing which was a violation of mob rules.

I wouldn't say he filled a void because the Gambino family continued on and he, by killing his boss, created the void......there was never a power vacuum because he stepped into immediately.

The Netfilx doc on Gotti is pretty good. They wiretapped his club in Queens years earlier.....then when he took over the main Gambino club in Little Italy they wiretapped that. I think the NYPD or the State did the first one and the FBI did the second one.

One interesting thing in documentary is the battles between the local cops and the feds. You can tell some resentment is still there.

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JollyRancherHard 3 points ago +3 / -0

The Pizza Connection went to trial in 1985. There were several RICO cases before then. There were a few RICO trials in the 1970's including cases against the Cowboy Mafia, the Oakland chapter of the Hell's Angels, a Louisiana construction company that was involved in bribery and kickbacks.

The first RICO case in NY against the mob was against the head of the Longshoreman's union. This was 1979.

The next year the head of the Genovese family was convicted on a RICO case.

The first "Donnie Brasco" case was a RICO case in 1982. During that trial the judge made Donnie Brasco, reveal his real identify as FBI agent Joe Pistone which ended his uncover career. Years later he testified in the Pizza Connection in 1986.

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JollyRancherHard 1 point ago +2 / -1

I was there. I saw it daily. Not saying the Feds weren’t involved or Netflix is wrong.

I'm not following you.

Yes, the Feds were involved. Rudy was a Fed.

But I lived it.

How would living in NYC give you an inside view of what the FBI was doing? I lived in NYC too and I learned a lot of new stuff. I think anyone who lived through it would enjoy the documentary.

Maybe I didn't make my point clear enough. Before the courtroom successes in the mid 1980s there was years of work behind the scenes we were privy too. For example, key evidence used in the Mafia Commission trial was captured in 1981 or 82 before Rudy was in NYC. It basically started in the later 1970's with the FBI changing their approach the mob after J. Edgar Hoover died. They were going to invest the time and money to build big complex cases. To do this they had to stop going after the small fish, they had to learn how to use the RICO laws.

btw, another great NYC documentary is The Seven Five about the Michael Down police corruption scandal.

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