Trump sent money to Cohen to pay Stormy Daniel in 2016. This is at worst a misdemeanor but statute of limitations has expired which is why Alvin elevated to a bogus felony.
Why is this a campaign finance violation?
Does Alvin have authority to prosecute campaign finance violations after FEC and SDNY federal prosecutors both decided not to fine or prosecute Trump?
Campaign finance laws are federal? Bragg cannot prosecute federal crimes?
Sorry to say we inhabit post- rule of law amerikka. Given “prosecutorial discretion”, forum shopping, and the fact that, given the sheer density and number of laws, virtually every act can be construed to be criminal. We have descended to Stalinism. The “law” is no longer relevant. Just stating the obvious.
John Edwards.paid off some socialite to cover up the fact that he had an illegitimate child with some woman while his wife was dying of cancer. And Jack Smith couldn’t convict him.
(funny how people still make fun of Palin, but nobody ever comments on Edwards’ spectacular implosion…)
To me the biggest injustice, from everything I’ve read, is that there’s a “mystery crime” at the kernel of this specious cocoon. And as a lawyer, I don’t understand how a case where the accused is not informed of the exact charges could be going forward. And I’d think I am just not well informed about criminal,law, which isn’t my field—except that I keep reading Yoo and McCarthy and Turley and Dershowitz pointing out the same thing.
Sorry, I missed your point. Though I am retired from the bar, my knowledge was always spotty. I was something of a dilettante, since I continued to practice medicine full time - so I don’t know the things you are after. That’s because, contrary to my a priori imaginings which led me to law school, it is cheaper for lawyers to hire medical expertise as needed rather than hire it in house full time. As well, I was far too diffident to start my own firm and “chase ambulances”. In fact, I was much more interested in health law (the regulatory apparatus which has departed completely from reality) and policy than the awful field of medical negligence.
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