Malcolm Nance says if it were him, he would cop a plea.

[Tactical Peek]

Malcolm Nance tonight on All In With Chris Hayes on MSNBC, discussing the Steele dossier:


"There's one interesting point about what Trump said, you know calling him [Comey] up and saying you know, "It's not me and hookers", but he never ... I mean this thing alleged that there was a $19 billion dollar payoff if Russian sanctions are lifted in there. It alleges that Trump administration people said that they would conduct surveillance against Russian oligarchs in the United States for the Russian government

There are many things in that dossier that, if I took one look at it, I would be just swearing to God I didn't do any of that, and copping to the hookers."

[DeminPennswoods]

3. FinCEN doesn't really look into things,

they just collect suspicious transactions in a database. It's up to law enforcement to put the data to use in investigations and prosecutions.

[DeminPennswoods]

6. financial theives are pretty clever as

I've learned from watching American Greed.

[pnwmom]

20. I think that was an error. I believe what was offered was the brokerage fee

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for the Rosneft deal.

Link to tweet

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[pnwmom]

21. Here's how.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1582OH

Like many large deals, the Rosneft privatization uses a structure of shell companies owning shell companies, commonly referred to in Russia as a "matryoshka", after the wooden nesting dolls that open to reveal a smaller doll inside.

Following the trail of ownership leads to a Glencore UK subsidiary and a company that shares addresses with the Qatari Investment Authority, but also to a firm registered in the Cayman Islands, which does not require companies to record publicly who owns them.

The Singapore-registered investment vehicle that holds the newly privatized 19.5 percent stake in Rosneft is called QHG Shares. It is owned by a London-registered limited liability partnership, QHG Investments, which in turn lists as one of its two owners another London-registered limited liability partnership, QHG Holding, created on Dec. 5.

One of the partners in QHG Holding is QHG Cayman Limited, registered at an address of the Cayman Islands office of Walkers, an international law firm.

[pnwmom]

24. Yes, and you can see here how the mistake was made.

This link shows the page from the Steele dossier, which clearly says "the brokerage of up to 19% of . . . " but whoever wrote the article missed the key words "the brokerage" and just reported the 19%.

Big difference!

http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/01/11/mnuchin-needs-to-explain-the-19-5-sale-of-rosneft/

[dem4decades]

2. I thought that was hilarious, though Chris seemed caught off guard. I laughed

at a lot of stuff said by the former Watergate prosecutor, he was so matter of fact of his Obstruction of Justice case he could bring and said it with such glee it was infectious. Even Matt Miller was laughing.

[DeminPennswoods]

5. "up the wazoo"

was a great line.

[WinkyDink]

7. "Copping to the hookers" doesn't mean "cop a plea," does it?

[Tactical Peek]

13. Afaik it does, meaning admitting to, or pleading guilty to.

cop to
phrasal verb
US
informal

Accept or admit to.
‘there are a lot of people in the world who don't cop to their past’

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/cop_to



It might also carry an implication of pleading guilty to a lesser charge or to avoid something worse or get some consideration for the plea, hence the idea of 'cop' meaning to get, like to get a deal from the prosecutor.

[WinkyDink]

30. But there is no mention of any deal.

[greyl]

22. No, it doesn't. nt

[rzemanfl]

10. This reminds me, I have an overdue book. n/t

[TexasTowelie]

11. So do I.

[rzemanfl]

16. She's gone. If we could just rid ourselves of Drumpf so easily. n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

18. I have nightmares about overdue books.

[rzemanfl]

19. Are the books about trolls?

[fleabiscuit]

12. Is english your second language? nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. George Washington was former military. I trust him.

[Thinkingabout]

17. trump has hired attorneys, which tried to jump out with the trump's lies,

probably the only ones believing these lies are those who can't face the fact trump is a loser.

[FreepFryer]

26. I lol'ed when he said that. It was really funny. (n/t)

[pnwest]

27. I LOL'ed out loud! That was hilarious...and no,

"copping to the hookers" doesn't mean copping a plea - "copping to" is more like "owning up to", or admitting to.

[OnDoutside]

28. exactly.

[KT2000]

29. that was funny

a LOL moment. And then there was Lawrence - had me laughing several times - the adjectives!!