The DA charged Trump with election crimes. If he didn’t make hush money payoffs to influence an election, falsifying business records to hide those payments would be misdemeanors under New York law. Let’s start by quoting what Trump said after his arraignment: “Former President Don[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Crime’
April 4th, 2023 - 7:23 pm § in Democrats, Donald Trump, Law and Courts, Politics, Racism, Republicans
Sizing up the case against Trump
March 28th, 2023 - 1:12 am § in Law and Courts
Get this driver off the road
Antonio Michael Lopez, 21, has been charged with vehicular homicide twice. Those are his most serious driving offenses. According to KING 5 News, a Seattle TV station, he’s been cited multiple times over 6 years. His past violations include hit-and-run, speeding, inattentive driving, and multi[...]
March 25th, 2023 - 8:56 pm § in Law and Courts
What the heck is wrong with some people?
I don’t know why Seth Beavers (photo, left), 33, of Sterling, Illinois, was at the Florida condominium. Maybe he was renting an AirBnB or visiting someone. Anyway, he decided to swim in the pool after hours, but a security guard told him the pool was closed. For that, Beavers allegedly tried t[...]
March 23rd, 2023 - 5:19 pm § in Law and Courts
Little waif blowing in the wind
It’s not the defense attorney’s fault. Making excuses for his client’s criminal behavior is his job. Riley Williams (photo, left), 24, is a high-profile Capitol rioter described by prosecutors as “an ‘accelerant’ of the mob” who “‘gleefully direc[...]
Was this indictment a politically motivated witch hunt, or just prosecuting a thief?
Let’s start with basics: Joe Harding didn’t come from America’s educated or business elite. He’s a junior college dropout who worked in construction before starting his landscaping business (see his profile here). You could say he’s a dirt-under-fingernails type of guy.[...]
March 15th, 2023 - 9:27 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Southern injustice
I wonder how many white people in Florida get sentenced to 400 years in prison for being the getaway driver in an armed robbery in which no one was hurt? That was the sentence imposed on Sidney Holmes in 1989, and he wasn’t even the getaway driver in the robbery. He was convicted on the [&hell[...]
Insurrection senator gave free pass to crooked insurance company
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who raised a clenched-fist salute in solidarity with violent rioters trying to overthrow the 2020 election (photo, left), ignored “a Christian-backed medical insurance company” that was stealing from his constituents when he was Missouri attorney general (read st[...]
Santos accused of ATM skimming
Rep. George Santos (R-NY; photo, left), aka Anthony Devolder, is secretive about his personal finances and where he got the $700,000 he loaned to his campaign (see story here). He would have good reason to be, if his “business” activities were a criminal enterprise, and those funds were [...]
March 2nd, 2023 - 11:24 pm § in Law and Courts
Crime blotter: Trial predictions
Defendants are presumed innocent until there’s a guilty plea or verdict, but you just know lots of people are placing bets on the outcomes of these high-profile cases. People bet on everything from dog races to cockfights. I won’t put money on it, but … Alex Murdaugh This story per[...]
Trumper gets 9 years for bomb plot
A judged locked up Ian Benjamin Rogers (photo, left), 46, of Sacramento, California, for 9 years for plotting to bomb the Democratic Party headquarters in downtown Sacramento “as revenge for what they falsely believed was a stolen election,” the Sacramento Bee reported on Wednesday, Marc[...]