F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump’s Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen

a reply to: burgerbuddy

It's pretty new information. You're excused.

originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: burgerbuddy

You're right. Hard to damage Hannity's reputation.

Since we're free thinking.

Who doesn't know a crooked lawyer?!

Most of the govt is run by them, right?

Hill and Obama were lawyers! Were as in past tense.

lol.

a reply to: Aazadan

So what probable cause of a crime are we dealing with?

TheRedneck

originally posted by: TheRedneck
a reply to: Aazadan

So you're OK with the government taking property without presenting even a formal accusation of wrongdoing? Not even saying what they were investigating?

Court filings speak exactly to what Cohen is being investigated for, albeit it was redacted for public release.

Cohen is full aware of what the raid was in regards to.

Oh man, the stuff that is surfacing on this judge is
pretty juicy, she is called the "love judge".

I wonder if they judge shopped?

Scary stuff, this woman has a few axes to grind it seems.

originally posted by: TheRedneck
a reply to: Aazadan

So what probable cause of a crime are we dealing with?

TheRedneck

It's not public yet.

Speaking of fake news and the Cohen in Prague lie that got recycled.

Mueller Issues New Warning To Media Following Report On Trump Lawyer

On Friday, a left-of-center news organization published a report claiming that special counsel Robert Mueller had evidence that President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen had visited Prague during the 2016 election campaign which would validate claims made in the Democrat-funded anti-Trump dossier.

The report, from McClatchy DC, came as rumors were swirling that Trump was considering firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and possibly even Mueller following a week of turmoil in which the FBI raided the home and office of Trump's personal lawyer. The Washington Times notes:

The McClatchy story on Friday lit up liberal media outlets since, if true, it would confirm a major charge by the British ex-spy. Mr. Steele wrote that Mr. Cohen traveled secretly to Prague in August 2016 to meet Vladimir Putin aides to conspire to cover up Russian hacking of Democratic Party computers. In other words: Trump-Russia collusion.

However, on Monday, the special counsel's office told The Times that many of the stories surrounding the investigation are not true.

“What I have been telling all reporters is that many stories about our investigation have been inaccurate,” a spokesperson for Mueller said. “Be very cautious about any source that claims to have knowledge about our investigation and dig deep into what they claim before reporting on it. If another outlet reports something, don’t run with it unless you have your own sourcing to back it up.”

As The Daily Caller reports, "Three days later, no other news outlet has confirmed the report, and there are reasons to be skeptical."

The DC further notes that anti-Trump writer Benjamin Wittes even thought the story was "a little too good" to be true.

"The sourcing is relatively thin," Wittes wrote on Twitter. "It is sourced to two sources familiar with the matter, who are presumably not Mueller shop folks. It's not clear to me what the universe of people who would know this sort of thing from a distance looks like.

"The story does not, actually, say that Michael Cohen was, in fact, in Prague at the relevant time," Wittes continued. "It says that Mueller's investigation has developed some evidence that he was in Prague. It gives no sense of how much evidence or what type of evidence—or how credible it is.

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As has been said numerous times. Cohen in Prague was debunked by Jake Tapper. There is no new evidence confirming a trip to Prague by Cohen.

a reply to: burntheships

Yeah. Right.

On December 18, 1987, based upon a recommendation from Senator Al D'Amato,[3] Wood was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York vacated by Judge Constance Baker Motley. Wood was confirmed by a unanimous United States Senate on April 19, 1988, and received her commission on April 20, 1988. She entered on duty on July 28, 1988.[5] She served as Chief Judge from 2006 to 2009 and assumed senior status on June 1, 2009

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a reply to: burntheships

I see why:

Manhattan Federal Court Judge Kimba Wood, a one-time candidate for U.S. attorney general, has been identified as the other woman in the sensational divorce of a multi-millionaire Wall Street financier.

In a series of detailed diary entries, investment banker Frank Richardson 3d, who is worth an estimated $157 million, gushed about his relationship with Wood and described how it blossomed last spring during quiet dinner dates at the ritzy restaurant Lutece and on weekend visits to the judge's country home in Massachusetts.

Wood burnin' in his diaries: Judge Kimba named as other woman in split - NY Daily News

And there is this:

With degrees from Harvard Law School and the London School of Economics (LSE), U.S. Federal Judge Kimba Wood would seem an unlikely candidate to have a Playboy past. But in the mid-1960s, a then cash-strapped Wood trained five days to be a bunny at a London Playboy Club while studying at LSE. As brief as it was, her stint at the club became a point of discussion after President Bill Clinton nominated Wood as his Attorney General in 1993. But it was her employment of an illegal immigrant that ultimately derailed her nomination for the Justice Department post.

Top 9 Successful Ex–Playboy Bunnies - Time

And this:

Judge Kimba M. Wood withdrew today from consideration for Attorney General after the White House learned she had employed an illegal immigrant as a baby sitter before it became illegal to do so.

That stunning setback left President Clinton scrambling for the third time to fill the post.

...

White House officials said they were angry at Judge Wood because she had not told Mr. Clinton and other officials about her baby sitter, even when she had been directly asked. In her statement, however, Judge Wood said she had not misled the White House.

JUDGE WITHDRAWS FROM CLINTON LIST FOR JUSTICE POST - NY Times

a reply to: jadedANDcynical

Wood, 51, a Harvard Law School graduate who sentenced junk bond king Michael Milken to a 10-year prison term, has a reputation as a tough-minded jurist.

www.nydailynews.com...

Terrible judge. Right?

originally posted by: jadedANDcynical
a reply to: burntheships

I see why:

JUDGE WITHDRAWS FROM CLINTON LIST FOR JUSTICE POST - NY Times

Playboy bunny?

I missed that. Oh ....this is going to be a circus.

a reply to: burntheships

Yeah. That totally overrides her 30 years on the federal bench (after being a bunny, after being nominated by Reagan). It's a little late to be bringing up the job she had before that.

But in the mid-1960s, a then cash-strapped Wood trained five days to be a bunny at a London Playboy Club while studying at LSE.

But you're on it, all right.

a reply to: Phage

Well it seems fitting a former Playboy Bunny residing
as a judge over a Pornstar. How tawdry.....

Good grief, this is just a joke....

a reply to: burntheships

Bunny trainee. 5 days. While working her way through school. In the 1960's.

Hang the witch.

Good grief, this is just a joke....

Yes, the desperation is amusing. Now, how are you doing on dirt while shes been on the federal bench. For 30 years. Surely you can find something. Anything.

originally posted by: Phage
Now, how are you doing on dirt while shes been on the federal bench. For 30 years.

Right, well that could be good or it could be that she
is a corrupt judge on the take.

Or maybe she has a few friends in The Clinton camp so it would
seem eh? She could be on speed dial from any Clinton player
in the DOJ or the FBI. You know, like Peter Strzok arranged
a dinner with the judge that was going to hear the Flynn case?

Kind of like that!

a reply to: burntheships

Maybe, maybe she's a vampire!

a reply to: Phage

Maybe she is a friend of Gloria Allred, who was also a
Playboy Bunny.

Gloria Steinem worked at the Manhattan Playboy Club and later wrote the expose that helped make her a star in journalism. Actress Lauren Hutton was a Bunny, as was singer Deborah Harry and Kimba Wood, who trained at the London Club before heading off to Harvard Law. She is now federal Judge Wood.

Anyways, from the same article here is Kimba the Love Judge.

Courtesy of NPR
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a reply to: burntheships

Beware of bunnies.

a reply to: Phage

Oh...and her reputation?

Two heads of New York State Legislature, Sheldon Silver (Assembly Speaker) and Dean Skelos (Majority Leader of the Senate) were convicted of corruption charges. On May 3, 2016, Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison. On May 12, 2016, Dean Skelos was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Yet, in both of their cases, judge Valerie Caproni (for Silver) and Judge Kimba Wood (for Skelos) unanimously allowed these two public officials convicted of corruption, whose corruption was proven to juries through testimony and documentary evidence, to remain free pending resolution by the U.S. Supreme Court of a case pertaining - coincidentally - to government corruption.

attorneyindependence.blogspot.com...

You should see her now. This deserves a thread of its own.

I'm done here.

a reply to: burntheships

She waited for a decision from the SCOTUS before imprisoning someone. Shame on her.

Does the article blog say what happened?


And you know that Skelos is a Republican, right?