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Josh Marshall's take on the Bribery/Pardon documents is that it's for someone in federal prison
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Josh Marshall
@joshtpm
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Dec 1, 2020
So I read the judges decision doc here. It’s almost all redacted. But some basic outlines are clear - bribery for pardon scheme. Seems to involve both wouldbe pardonees lawyer and some sort of non lawyer fixer who was managing the bribery ask and seemingly some ...
Kaitlan Collins
@kaitlancollins
Really big news from @kpolantz: The Justice Department is investigating a potential crime related to funneling money to the White House in exchange for a presidential pardon, according to a court record unsealed by the chief judge of the DC District Court.
2/ related political campaign for a pardon. As I said, virtually everything is redacted. But the emails in question, which reveal the scheme were apparently uncovered in a raid sometime before the end of the summer. And the DOJ investigators were trying to get the judges ...
3/ permission to use the emails in their investigation, both arguing a crime fraud exception to the privilege and also that the emails included a person (seemingly the aforementioned fixer) who wasn’t an attorney or an agent of the attorney, thus voiding the privilege.
4/ If I’m reading this right, this tells us the person trying to buy a pardon is already in the federal prison system.
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Josh Marshall
@joshtpm
·
Dec 1, 2020
So I read the judges decision doc here. It’s almost all redacted. But some basic outlines are clear - bribery for pardon scheme. Seems to involve both wouldbe pardonees lawyer and some sort of non lawyer fixer who was managing the bribery ask and seemingly some ...
Kaitlan Collins
@kaitlancollins
Really big news from @kpolantz: The Justice Department is investigating a potential crime related to funneling money to the White House in exchange for a presidential pardon, according to a court record unsealed by the chief judge of the DC District Court.
2/ related political campaign for a pardon. As I said, virtually everything is redacted. But the emails in question, which reveal the scheme were apparently uncovered in a raid sometime before the end of the summer. And the DOJ investigators were trying to get the judges ...
3/ permission to use the emails in their investigation, both arguing a crime fraud exception to the privilege and also that the emails included a person (seemingly the aforementioned fixer) who wasn’t an attorney or an agent of the attorney, thus voiding the privilege.
4/ If I’m reading this right, this tells us the person trying to buy a pardon is already in the federal prison system.
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