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herding cats

(19,558 posts)
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 09:54 PM Jul 2018

Will Aaron Nevins be facing any state level charges if Trump pardons him?

Aaron Nevins (GOP operative from Florida) is the "state lobbyist and online source of political news" mentioned yesterday in the Mueller indictments, for those who aren't yet aware.

The indictment says, "then-registered state lobbyist and online source of political news" who received 2.5 gigabytes of data stolen from the DCCC, including "donor records and personal identifying information for more than 2,000 Democratic donors."

The WSJ reported last year on Aaron Nevins and this very thing.

Learning that hacker “Guccifer 2.0” had tapped into a Democratic committee that helps House candidates, Mr. Nevins wrote to the hacker to say: “Feel free to send any Florida based information.”

Ten days later, Mr. Nevins received 2.5 gigabytes of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee documents, some of which he posted on a blog called HelloFLA.com that he ran using a pseudonym.

Soon after, the hacker sent a link to the blog article to Roger Stone, a longtime informal adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump, along with Mr. Nevins’ analysis of the hacked data.

Mr. Nevins confirmed his exchanges after The Wall Street Journal identified him first as the operator of the HelloFLA blog and then as the recipient of the stolen DCCC data. The Journal also reviewed copies of exchanges between the hacker and Mr. Nevins. That the obscure blog had received hacked Democratic documents was previously known, but not the extent of the trove or the blogger’s identity.

“I just threw an arrow in the dark,” Mr. Nevins said in an interview, adding he set up a Dropbox account so whoever was using the Guccifer 2.0 name could send large amounts of material. Later, going through what the hacker sent as someone who “actually knows what some of these documents mean,” the GOP consultant said he “realized it was a lot more than even Guccifer knew that he had.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-alleged-russian-hacker-teamed-up-with-florida-gop-operative-1495724787


It seems pretty obvious he's facing charges for his actions at this point, in spite if his denial last year he was not being investigated for his actions.

I was discussing this in another post when it suddenly struck me, he's probably going to get off scott-free if Trump pardons him. If there are any state level charges, which I'm not sure there are, what's the likelihood they'll be filed in the current political climate where Pam Bondi and Rick Scott reign?
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Will Aaron Nevins be facing any state level charges if Trump pardons him? (Original Post) herding cats Jul 2018 OP
Receiving stolen goods? The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2018 #1
That would be extremely disappointing. herding cats Jul 2018 #2
Depends,were there not Dem Party Wellstone ruled Jul 2018 #3

herding cats

(19,558 posts)
2. That would be extremely disappointing.
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 10:03 PM
Jul 2018

If he is pardoned, and skirts any real charges, I hope the voters at least hold the candidates he helped responsible for using information stolen by the Russian GRU. That would be a small bit of Justice at least.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Depends,were there not Dem Party
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 10:23 PM
Jul 2018

Campaign Workers who had their private info stolen and sold on the Dark Web? If so,civil suites will go on for years.

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