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Another favourite photo of Alaskan nature photographer Amy Bragg. This gorgeous young fox gleams with health and vitality while she enjoys a drink of fresh cold water from melted snow

#fox #red fox #Alaska wildlife #Amy Bragg #nature photography #wildife #wild animals #gorgeous creatures #redheads #awakening #end of winter

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Cat Power, Glen Hansard & more covered Sinéad O'Connor & Shane MacGowan at rehearsal for Carnegie Hall benefit (pics, video)

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Cat Power, Glen Hansard & more covered Sinéad O'Connor & Shane MacGowan at rehearsal for Carnegie Hall benefit (pics, video)

A star-studded benefit show honoring the late Sinéad O’Connor and Shane MacGowan happens at Carnegie Hall tonight (3/20), and ahead of that, many of the participating artists played a rehearsal show at City Winery on Tuesday (3/19). The loose, casual rehearsal was led by Tony Shanahan (who played in the house band), and included Billy […]

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whiskersonkittens65 · 15 days

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justinspoliticalcorner · 16 days

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Dean Obeidallah at The Dean's Report:

Donald Trump’s first of four criminal trials is scheduled to begin Monday in New York. After what is expected to be two to three weeks for jury selection, Trump’s criminal trial—where he is facing 34 felonies--is predicted to take six weeks. That means by mid-June, Donald Trump will be a convicted felon. It’s really that simple. Is there a chance Trump is not convicted? Sure, as a former trial lawyer, I can vouch firsthand that juries can surprise you. But based on the evidence developed in the criminal investigation and disclosed during the pre-trial portion of this case, it is clear that Trump falsified documents to conceal other federal and state crimes. Thus, Trump committed numerous felonies. Everyone knows the core allegation, namely that Trump—via his then lawyer Michael Cohen--paid $130,000 shortly before the 2016 election to stop Stormy Daniels from going public with the tale of her affair with Trump. Now, if Trump had paid Daniels solely to keep his wife from finding out about his affair, that would be one thing. It wasn’t.

Trump paid Daniels the money because he feared that if information went public at the time, he would lose the 2016 election. That at the very least made the secret payment a violation of federal election laws—which is one of the felonies Cohen pled guilty to committing in 2018, telling the court he made the payment “in coordination with, and at the direction of,” a presidential candidate who was Trump. This is why Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has repeatedly stated the “core” of this case “is not money for sex,” it’s election corruption. Indeed, the very first line of the Statement of Facts that details the basis for the charges against Trump tells us that, “The defendant DONALD J. TRUMP repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election.”

When you look at the timing of when Trump first hatched this scheme to pay off Daniels, you get why this was all about the campaign. The charging documents tell us point blank: “About one month before the election, on or about October 7, 2016, news broke that the Defendant had been caught on tape saying to the host of Access Hollywood: “I just start kissing them [women]. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything…Grab ’em by the [genitals]. You can do anything.” The political firestorm caused by the release of the Access Hollywood tape is why just three days later, Trump—with the help of Cohen and his publisher friend AMI Editor-in-Chief David Pecker-- moved swiftly to pay off Daniels. They heard she was shopping around the story of her affair with Trump. And Trump, former Trump aide Hope Hicks (who the State will be calling as a witness), Cohen and others knew that it would have been devastating for his campaign if voters learned in the midst of the Access Hollywood tape backlash that Trump had an affair with a “porn star” a mere four months after Melania gave birth to their only child.

Indeed, the statement of facts tells us this was all about the campaign: “The evidence shows that both the Defendant and his campaign staff were concerned that the tape would harm his viability as a candidate and reduce his standing with female voters in particular.” That is why Daniels was approached on October 10, 2016, with a deal to “prevent disclosure of the damaging information in the final weeks before the presidential election.” Under the agreement, Daniels was paid $130,000. But here is where the crimes come in. As the pleadings explain, Trump “did not want to make the $130,000 payment himself” so he asked Cohen to come up with a way to do that. “After discussing various payment options,” Cohen agreed he would make the payment and Trump would pay him back. It all worked as planned, Daniels never told America about the affair and Trump won the election.

Then, “shortly after being elected President, the Defendant arranged to reimburse” Cohen for the payoff he made to Daniels on Trump’s behalf. The plan they came up was that Cohen would be paid monthly for “legal fees” until the amount he advanced was repaid. In reality, as the pleadings note, “At no point did Lawyer A [Cohen] have a retainer agreement with the Defendant or the Trump Organization.” Yet Cohen still submitted monthly invoices to Trump’s company for legal services. Some were paid by Trump’s company while nine of the reimbursement checks to Cohen for fabricated legal services came from Trump’s personal bank account and Trump “signed each of the checks personally.” And as alleged, “The Defendant caused his entities’ business records to be falsified to disguise his and others’ criminal conduct.”

Dean Obeidallah wrote in his Dean's Report Substack that Donald Trump will likely have the words "convicted felon" attached to his name by sometime in June or early July should the jury find him guilty in the Manhattan election interference case. Most of America wants to see charges levied against him.

#Donald Trump #People of New York v. Trump #Donald Trump Trial #Trump Indictment #Alvin Bragg #Juan Manuel Merchan #Stormy Daniels #Michael Cohen #Stormy Daniels/Donald Trump Affair #2016 Presidential Election #2016 Elections #Trump Organization #American Media Inc.#David Pecker #National Enquirer #2005 Trump Access Hollywood Tape

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Today’s Reminder that it’s not a Trump “hush money” trial. Hush money payments are generally legal.

It’s a Trump “Criminal Fraud” Trial.

Trump stands accused of violating criminal statutes on Election Fraud [17-152)] and on Tax Fraud [1801(a)(3) and 1802]

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New York Election Law § 17-152 prohibits a conspiracy to use “unlawful means” to promote or prevent a person’s election. The phrase “unlawful means” is interpreted broadly and is not limited to crimes but rather includes any conduct unauthorized by law. In denying Trump’s motion to dismiss, Justice Merchan upheld DA Bragg’s theory under this statute, namely: “the People allege that Defendant intended to violate N.Y. Election Law § 17-152 by conspiring to ‘promote the election of any person to a public office… by entering a scheme specifically for purposes of influencing the 2016 presidential election; and that they did so by ‘unlawful means,’ including by violating FECA through the unlawful individual and corporate contributions by Cohen, Pecker, and AMI; and… by falsifying the records of other New York enterprises and mischaracterizing the nature of the repayment for tax purposes.’ People’s Opposition at pg. 25

For the purposes of tax violations, Bragg relies on two related tax provisions: New York Tax Law §§ 1801(a)(3) & 1802. Section 1801(a) sets out relevant tax fraud acts, with subsection (3) prohibiting “knowingly suppl[ying] or submit[ting] materially false or fraudulent information in connection with any [tax] return, audit, investigation, or proceeding.” The tax fraud includes four elements: (1) a tax document filed, submitted or supplied; (2) falsity; (3) materiality; and (4) intent (willfulness). Any person who commits a tax fraud act, including under 1801(a)(3), is guilty, at a minimum, of criminal tax fraud in the fifth degree, a Class A misdemeanor crime under Section 1802, where the tax liability is less than $3,000. No additional mens rea is required, such as an intent to evade taxes or defraud the state. In this case, the primary alleged tax violation was Cohen falsely declaring the reimbursement as income, which artificially increased his tax liability. As Justice Merchan already found, however, an allegation of tax fraud where the state “was not financially harmed … and instead would wind up collecting more tax revenue” does not preclude the tax violation from being a predicate act for the first degree falsification of business records.

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 1 year

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Jesse Duquette, The Daily Don

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The Trump indictment.

On a day of non-stop coverage of the indictment of Donald J. Trump, less is more.

Here are the facts that matter:

The people of the State of New York filed this Indictment against Donald Trump.

The indictment alleges 34 felony counts of falsification of business records.

The Manhattan District Attorney separately released this Statement of Facts. If you have time, read the 13-page document in full. It sets forth the essential facts and legal theories for everything that will transpire in the case of People of New York v. Donald Trump.

Important allegations in the Statement of Facts include the following:

From August 2015 to December 2017, the Defendant [Trump] orchestrated a scheme with others to influence the 2016 presidential election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress its publication and benefit the Defendant's electoral prospects. In order to execute the unlawful scheme, the participants violated election laws and made and caused false entries in the business records of various entities in New York.

[Michael Cohen] who then worked for the Trump Organization as Special Counsel to [Trump] covertly paid $130,000 to an adult film actress shortly before the election to prevent her from publicizing a sexual encounter with the Defendant. [Michael Cohen] made the $130,000 payment through a shell corporation he set up and funded at a bank in Manhattan. This payment was illegal, and [Cohen] has since pleaded guilty to making an illegal campaign contribution . . . .

In a conversation captured in an audio recording in approximately September 2016 concerning Woman 1's account, the [Trump] and [Cohen] discussed how to obtain the rights to Woman 1's account from AMI and how to reimburse AMI for its payment.

[Trump] directed [Cohen] to delay making a payment to Woman 2 as long as possible. He instructed Lawyer A that if they could delay the payment until after the election, they could avoid paying altogether, because at that point it would not matter if the story became public.

During a 58-minute appearance before Judge Juan Merchan, Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges in the indictment.

Judge Merchan declined to impose a gag order, although he cautioned the parties to exercise restraint in making out-of-court statements. Trump promptly disregarded the judge's cautionary warning by making incendiary statements during an evening speech at Mar-a-Lago.

Judge Merchan set the next hearing in the case for December 2, 2023.

Discussion of the indictment.

The indictment alleges financial crimes were committed to protect Trump's presidential prospects. The cover-up was part of a broad ranging “catch-and-kill” strategy that continued into Trump's first months as president.

The indictment has provoked a torrent of criticism by legal commentators. Most of the criticism hinges on the fact that the underlying offenses of financial fraud are typically charged as misdemeanors. Here, they are charged as felonies. To leverage misdemeanors into felonies, New York must prove that Trump intended to commit other crimes.

Alvin Bragg identified those other crimes during a news conference, which include:

tax fraud,

facilitating false statements by the National Enquirer's parent company (AMI),

violation of state election laws, and

violation of federal election laws.

Most commentators focus on the difficulty of proving the last two crimes—violations of federal and state election laws. For example, one of my favorite legal commentators, Ian Millhiser, has annoyed me greatly with this article in Vox, The dubious legal theory at the heart of the Trump indictment, explained.

Millhiser's analysis is as good as it gets—but I disagree. At the core of Millhiser's criticism is this:

Bragg has evidence that Trump acted to cover up a federal crime, but it is not clear that Bragg is allowed to point to a federal crime in order to charge Trump under the New York state law.

Millhiser suggests that Bragg must prove a federal crime to prevail. Not true, entirely. Bragg can rely on uncharged state crimes—including violations of New York election laws and income tax violations, as Bragg said in his news conference. Moreover, as Millhiser concedes above, "it is not clear" whether an uncharged federal crime will suffice. The relevant New York statute says that a person is guilty of a felony under state law

when he commits the crime of falsifying business records [and has] the intent to commit another crime . . . .

The New York statute refers generally to "another crime," not a "state crime" or a federal crime. Just "another crime." Millhiser says that ambiguity might get Trump off the hook. I doubt it. The statute is plain on its face. Trump will undoubtedly make Millhiser's argument, but I believe Trump will lose the argument.

Okay, that's as deep as I will examine the legal issues. The issues are more complicated than I have described above, and there are other worrisome defenses (including the timing of the payments—all of which occurred after Trump took office).

Despite my disagreement with Millhiser, his analysis is excellent and cannot be easily dismissed. If you are interested in a deep dive into the alleged weaknesses of Bragg's case, Millhiser's article is an excellent resource. See also Mark Joseph Stern in Slate, Donald Trump indictment is not the slam-dunk case Democrats wanted.

Although two of my favorite legal commentators are raising red flags, I think Bragg can convince the judge that the false financial records were part of a broad-ranging "catch-and-kill" strategy designed to violate state and federal election and tax laws. That should be enough to get the case to the jury.

Trump cannot appeal any pre-trial rulings, which means that if the judge denies the expected motions to dismiss, the trial will take place in the spring of 2024. By then, Trump should be defending two federal indictments and one from Georgia.

Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter

#Robert B. Hubbell #Robert B. Hubbel Newsletter #Trump Indictment #Jesse Duquette The Daily Don #justice #legal #Millhiser

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UK Rock Superstars Tournament Participants!!!!

We have a remarkable 244 entries into the UK Rock Superstars Tournament. They will be sorted into 61 groups of 4 for the tournament to begin on Monday, May 22nd. Based on the number of nominations and other popularity factors I've sorted the entries into four pots. I will create the groups by randomly selecting one rock act from each pot for each group.

The names of all the participants are below the cut. If you find that there's a GRIEVOUS omission of a great UK rock band or solo artist, please notify me by the end of the day Friday. After that, the participants list will be final.

POT 1

Arctic Monkeys Bauhaus Black Sabbath Blur Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) David Bowie Def Leppard Depeche Mode Donovan Duran Duran Dusty Springfield Electric Light Orchestra Elton John Elvis Costello & The Attractions Eurythmics Fleetwood Mac Franz Ferdinand Genesis George Harrison George Michael Gorillaz Jeff Beck John Lennon Joy Division Judas Priest Kate Bush King Crimson Led Zeppelin Motörhead Muse New Order Oasis Paul McCartney Peter Gabriel Pink Floyd Placebo Pulp Queen Radiohead Rolling Stones Roxy Music Sex Pistols T. Rex Tears for Fears The Animals The Beatles The Bee Gees The Clash The Cure The Dave Clark Five The Hollies The Kinks The Moody Blues The Police The Pretenders The Small Faces / Faces The Smiths The Who The Yardbirds The Zombies Yes

POT 2

Amy Winehouse Bananarama Billy Bragg Billy Idol Black Midi Buzzcocks CHVRCHES Coldplay Cradle of Filth Cream Culture Club Dire Straits Echo & the Bunnymen Elvis Costello Emerson, Lake, & Palmer Erasure Gary Numan Graham Parker Herman's Hermits Iron Maiden Joe Cocker Joe Jackson Madness Manfred Mann Manic Street Preachers Marc Bolan Mott the Hoople Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark Ozzy Osbourne Pet Shop Boys Peter Frampton Phil Collins Primal Scream Ringo Starr Robert Plant Rod Stewart Siouxsie and the Banshees Sisters Of Mercy Slade Squeeze Supergrass The Beat The Damned The Human League The Jam The Jesus and Mary Chain The Pogues The Psychedelic Furs The Specials The Stone Roses The Stranglers The Sweet The Tornados Traffic Ultravox Van Morrison Wham! Wings X-Ray Spex XTC Yazoo

POT 3

ABC Adam and the Ants Alestorm Alt-J Annie Lennox Art of Noise Autechre Belle and Sebastian Big Audio Dynamite Big Country Black Country, New Road Blood Red Shoes Bullet for My Valentine Camera Obscura Carcass Cardiacs Cliff Richard Cornershop Davy Jones Deep Purple Elastica Fairport Convention Fine Young Cannibals Florence + The Machine Gang of Four Gerry & The Pacemakers Gerry Rafferty Happy Mondays Howard Jones Inspiral Carpets Jade Bird John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers Kevin Ayers Little Simz Los Campesinos! Mojave 3 My Bloody Valentine Napalm Death Nothing But Thieves Petula Clark Royal Blood Self Esteem Sleep Token Snow Patrol Soft Machine Steeleye Span Suede The Fall The Holloways The Kooks The Pigeon Detectives The Ting Tings The Undertones The Wombats The xx This Heat Throbbing Gristle Tom Jones Two Door Cinema Club Wet Leg Whitesnake

POT 4

10 cc Alison Moyet Bloc Party Cabaret Voltaire Crawlers Creeper Dexys Midnight Runners Eddy Grant Fad Gadget Fontaines D.C. Free Glass Animals Jarvis Cocker Jessie Ware Jethro Tull Kaiser Chiefs Killing Joke Laura Marling Lonnie Donegan Manfred Mann's Earth Band Modern English Mogwai Mungo Jerry Nazareth Nick Lowe Paul Young Peter & Gordon Procul Harum Public Image Ltd Rainbow Richard Thompson Roger Waters Sham 69 Simple Minds Soft Cell Spandau Ballet Spiritualized Status Quo Stereolab Steve Winwood Stiff Little Fingers Super Furry Animals Syd Barrett Talk Talk The Boo Radleys The Chameleons The Cocteau Twins The Cult The KLF The Mission The Searchers The Selecter The Slits The Verve Thomas Dolby UB40 Underworld Uriah Heep Van der Graaf Generator Yard Act Young Fathers

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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Bragg’s office accuses House Republicans of ‘unlawful political interference’

By Amy B Wang and John Wagner

The office of New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Friday urged House Republicans to withdraw a demand for information on its case against former president Donald Trump, again rebuffing what it characterized as “unlawful political interference” in an ongoing criminal case.

In a letter to the three committee chairmen who are pressing for documents and testimony about Trump’s case, Leslie B. Dubeck, the general counsel for Bragg’s office, chastised them for choosing to “collaborate” with the former president, who is now under indictment. A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Trump on Thursday after hearing evidence about alleged hush-money payments from Trump to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign.

As of Friday morning, the indictment — with specific charges against Trump — remains sealed. On his Truth Social platform, Trump has kept up a steady stream of attacks on Bragg in all-caps posts and condemned the indictment.

“As you are no doubt aware, former President Trump has directed harsh invective against District Attorney Bragg and threatened on social media that his arrest or indictment in New York may unleash ‘death & destruction,’” Dubeck wrote.

Dubeck said the GOP chairs — Jim Jordan (Ohio) on the Judiciary Committee; Bryan Steil (Wis.) on the Administration Committee; and James Comer (Ky.) on the Oversight Committee — could have used their positions to denounce those attacks and urge respect for the fairness of the justice system.

“Instead, you and many of your colleagues have chosen to collaborate with Mr. Trump’s efforts to vilify and denigrate the integrity of elected state prosecutors and trial judges and made unfounded allegations that the Office’s investigation … is politically motivated,” Dubeck wrote. “We urge you to refrain from these inflammatory accusations, withdraw your demand for information, and let the criminal justice process proceed without unlawful political interference.”

Representatives for Jordan, Steil and Comer did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday.

In their March 25 letter to Bragg’s office, the chairmen said they were seeking documents because Congress may consider legislation to shield former presidents from state criminal investigations for “personal acts.” Dubeck accused them of inventing “a brless pretext to interfere with our Office’s work,” noting the chairmen had not cited that rationale in their original request for materials.

Jordan and other GOP lawmakers had first sent a letter to Bragg on March 20 demanding documents and testimony related to the investigation. The request came after Trump claimed he would be arrested in the coming days and called on his supporters to protest.

In a reply to Jordan’s first letter, Bragg’s office said their request “treads into territory very clearly reserved to the states” — and noted that it had only come after Trump had “created a false expectation that he would be arrested … and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene.”

On Friday, Dubeck repeated that the committees lack jurisdiction to oversee a state criminal prosecution. She also slammed the notion that the Manhattan district attorney’s office had failed to dispute that its investigation was politically motivated because it had not provided GOP lawmakers with the materials they demanded.

“That conclusion is misleading and meritless,” Dubeck wrote Friday. “We did not engage in a point-by-point rebuttal of your letter because our Office is legally constrained in how it publicly discusses pending criminal proceedings, as prosecutorial offices are across the country and as you well know.”

If House Republicans did not withdraw their request, Dubeck said again, the district attorney’s office would be willing to meet to discuss how to accommodate their request without violating their obligations as prosecutors.

“We trust you will make a good-faith effort to reach a negotiated resolution before taking the unprecedented and unconstitutional step of serving a subpoena on a district attorney for information related to an ongoing state criminal prosecution,” she concluded.

Jordan’s demands of Bragg’s office have drawn sharp criticism from Democrats, who pointed out that the right-wing lawmaker had ignored a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Jan. 6 committee later voted to refer Jordan and other GOP lawmakers who had also defied its subpoenas to the House Ethics Committee.

Republicans have rallied to Trump’s defense since the former president predicted nearly two weeks ago that he would be arrested. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and many other high-profile GOP figures — including those who could be Trump’s chief rivals in the 2024 presidential primary — accused Bragg, a Democrat, of pursuing a political agenda.

Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, was paid $130,000 by Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer. Trump reimbursed Cohen after becoming president, in installments that were designated legal fees. Bragg is believed to be considering charges related to the payments that would include falsifying business records, possibly in commission of another campaign-related crime.

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littlepawz · 4 months

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Photographer Amy Bragg captured a herd of reindeer preparing for their upcoming task :) . She shared the following fun fact:

Reindeer males drop their antlers in November, while females keep their antlers through the winter until their calves are born in May. So that means all of Santa's reindeer are FEMALES!

Let go Girls!

#reindeer #caribou #Alaskan wildlife #wild animals #large game #northern denizens #nature #winter #snow #Alaska #winter scene #northern pines #Amy Bragg #wildlife photography

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daggerzine · 4 months

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V/A- Shine On- A Tribute to Pete Ham (Y & T)

Miami’s Y & T label has been at it for a few decades releasing some terrific roots rock , power pop, singer songwriter stuff and the like. For this new release the label is paying tribute to the late, great Pete Ham of Badfinger. I always felt like Badfinger (and thus Ham) never really got their due so hopefully this will help rectify that a bit.

35 cover songs spread out of over two discs and there’s plenty of highlights here. Sone of my faves include Mary Lou Lord tackling “Baby Blue,” Tobin Sprout (ex of GBV) with a great version of “Dear Father” and Mary Karlzen’s gentle, pretty “We’re For the Dark” (that’s all on disc 1).

Over on disc two you’ve got Wreckless Eric and wife Amy Rigby doing a sorta spacey version of “Midnight Caller” and Dennis Diken doing a dramatic version of, yup, “Dennis” and power popper Nelson Bragg doing a pretty version of Carry On Til Tomorrow.”

There’s plenty more here to enjoy and you can tell this whole project was a real labor of love (down to the excellent cover painting of Ham by Lesley Daunt) and the liner notes by Bill DeYoung (and the thank you list by Y & T’s Rich Ulloa). Very well done and worth your time and money.

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YMCA Names Nominees to be Recognized at 15th Annual Educators of the Year Ceremony

To submit school announcements, click on image. Eighteen area educators are to be honored this month when the Haverhill YMCA hosts its 15th Annual Educators of the Year ceremony. The nominees are Michael Scatamacchia, Gateway Academy; Jason Burns, Haverhill High School; Kimberly Malynn, Melissa Cook, and Terri Bragg, all of Whittier Tech; Amy Maldonado, Dr. Albert B. Consentino School; Scott…

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leemanfarm · 11 months

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Sundi Funnday “Flicka”- filly by LAZY LOPER out of Invite Me On Sundi (Invitation Only)- multiple World and Congress Champion, earner of over $43k and producer of over $45k. Owned by Amy Bragg

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Donald Trump’s Indictment and Statement of Facts, What We Know

By Alexa Tierrafria, University of North Texas Class of 2022

April 23, 2023

Former President Donald J. Trump was recently arraigned on April 4, 2023, following District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr.’s indictment a week prior. Bragg presented 34 felony counts similar in nature, violating New York Penal Law §175.10 through falsification of business records to the first degree before, during, and after the 2016 presidential election [5]. Elements of the case include the intent to defraud, the intent to commit another crime, and aid and conceal the commission made, along with the causation of a false entry into the enterprise’s business records [5].

The intent to defraud under New York law is a misdemeanor that holds a two-year statute of limitations and a one-year maximum sentence. For the falsification of business records to a second-degree, the maximum sentence is at least one year for every count that occurs [3]. The intent to commit another crime adds on to the previous misdemeanor and changes it to a felony. It is then that the two-year statute of limitations becomes a five-year statute with a four-year maximum sentence [1]. Because Trump is charged with 34 felony counts, he has the possibility of receiving the maximum four years for each count, which amasses to a 136-year sentence. Nevertheless, defendants are rarely appointed to these sentences for similar offenses [3].

Other laws that could be applied to Trump’s case are those relating to New York’s election law that makes it a crime to conspire for the promotion of candidacy or the reaching of federal election contribution limits, as well the prohibition of false statements [1].

The indictment appears to outline the intent to defraud and the intent to commit another crime, yet fails to mention the other crime. As for the statement of facts, the document discusses Trump’s “catch and kill” scheme.

The scheme operated from August 2015 to December 2017 and was set to identify, purchase, and bury negative information to increase Trump’s likelihood of election [2]. Trump and participants entered a cycle of fraudulent activity where they would disguise hush money payments as business records. Participants included lawyer Michael Cohen and AMI Entertainment CEO David Pecker. Individuals who received the hush money payments were the Trump Tower’s former doorman, Karen McDougal, and Stormy Daniels.

Beginning in August 2015, Cohen and Pecker attended a meeting at the Trump Tower to discuss the presidential election. Both parties agreed that they would “look out” for negative stories that could affect Trump’s election and publish negative stories about his competitors [4].

One of the first major stories they purchased came from the Trump Tower’s former doorman in October or November of 2015. The doorman insisted that Trump had fathered a child out of wedlock (which was later proved to be false). To gain the story’s rights, Pecker signed an agreement with the former doorman that paid him $30,000. The payment would be falsely characterized in Trump’s business records.

Another story involved former Playboy model Karen McDougal. McDougal contacted AMI’s Editor-in-Chief about her affair with Trump. Trump “did not want this information to become public because he was concerned about the effect if could have on his candidacy” [4]. Therefore, McDougal was paid $150,000 in an agreement to secure her silence. Apart from the payment, it was also agreed that Trump would receive two magazine covers from McDougal and her published articles. Once again, the payment was falsely characterized.

A final payment was made to adult film star Stormy Daniels for similar reasons regarding her affair with Trump. An agreement was made to secure Daniel’s silence in the “final weeks before the presidential election” [4]. Daniels was set to be paid $130,000 by Cohen under Trump’s behalf, where he would be later be reimbursed $35,000 monthly throughout 2017 for the total of $420,000. This “grossing up” would “compensate him for the taxes he would owe by booking the money as legal fees” [3]. All payments. ranging from vouchers to checks, were filed and kept under Donald J. Trump (Revocable Trust) and the Trump Organization.

With that being said, out of all the information gathered, what exactly is next for Trump? Since his arraignment, Trump now faces his next court appearance in 2024 during the presidential election. He will still be able to run for president as long as there’s no law that states otherwise.

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[1] ABC News. (2023, April 4). What legal experts say about Donald Trump's indictment. MSN. Retrieved from https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-legal-experts-say-about-donald-trump-s-indictment/ar-AA19u3F0?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=5a5dfb0ddc0f4089896dca0a3372689a&ei=13

[2] All Content. (2023, April 4). District Attorney Bragg Announces 34-Count Felony Indictment of Former President Donald J. Trump. Manhattan District Attorney's Office. Retrieved from https://manhattanda.org/district-attorney-bragg-announces-34-count-felony-indictment-of-former-president-donald-j-trump/

[3] Gerstein, J. (2023, April 4). The new revelations — and key questions — in the Trump indictment. POLITICO. Retrieved from https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/04/trump-indictment-takeaways-analysis-00089988

[4] The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump Statement of Facts, Document Cloud (Supreme Court of the State of New York April 4, 2023). Retrieved from https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/23741581-donald-j-trump-sof?embed=true&responsive=false&sidebar=false.

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The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump, Document Cloud (Supreme Court of the State of New York April 4, 2023). Retrieved from

https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/23741558-donald-j-trump-sof?embed=true&responsive=false&sidebar=false

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