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Duplicate post Trump’s Efforts to Hide Cash From NY AG Shot Down in Court Donald Trump’s desperate attempts to escape the wrath of the New York Attorney General were halted Thursday when a state judge there took the remarkable step of putting the former president’s company under court supervision—and preventing the billionaire from quietly shifting his money to avoid paying millions in fines. Justice Arthur F. Engoron intervened at the AG’s request, ordering the appointment of an independent monitor to ensure that the company can’t secretly move assets out of the law enforcement agency’s reach or keep issuing fraudulent financial statements. “There’s going to be a monitor,” he said in a Manhattan courtroom midday Thursday. The Trump Organization—the real estate company that propelled Trump into international fame—and its family leadership are accused of engaging in a blatant and long-running bank and tax fraud scheme. Documents filed in court meticulously describe how Trump and the adult family members he made executives there—Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric—persistently inflated the size and value of property to snag better bank loans and claim bigger tax breaks. They now face a $250 million lawsuit from New York AG Letitia James which seeks to cripple the corporation. She hopes to put the Trumps on trial in 2023, just as Trump is expected to pursue his political ambitions in a return to the White House. Trump has already taken actions that indicate he might be doing exactly what the AG fears: playing corporate games to avoid accountability. In recent weeks, he opened a new corporation in the shell company capital of Delaware, comically called “Trump Organization II.” And on Wednesday, he filed a state lawsuit in Florida’s Palm Beach County against the AG’s office trying to keep it from ever accessing any funds he shelters in a legal entity known as a “trust.” The lawsuit seeks a judicial order “declaring that James has no jurisdiction over the assets of a Florida revocable trust.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-efforts-to-hide-cash-from-new-york-attorney-general-shot-down-in-court?ref=home

DeSantis’ stunt: Taxpayers had to pay for migrants to be flown to Florida before sending them off to Massachusetts Adored by fellow MAGA Republicans but vehemently disliked by a combination of liberals, progressives, Democrats and right-wing Never Trump Republicans, far-right Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has become one of the most polarizing figures in U.S. politics. That polarization was evident when the Republican governor arranged for planes of migrants, many of them refugees from Venezuela, to be flown to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. DeSantis’ political stunt, many critics have pointed out, was obviously designed to “own the liberals,” as Massachusetts is a deep blue state that President Joe Biden carried by 33 percent in the 2020 presidential election. But right-wing media outlets were quick to defend DeSantis, arguing that if Massachusetts Democrats really cared about the migrants, they should be happy to take them in. The Miami Herald’s Mary Ellen Klas, in a report published on November 3, stresses that before DeSantis could arrange for the migrants to be flown to Massachusetts, he had to first arrange for them to be flown into Florida.

Delusion is as difficult to treat as ABI- maybe worse.

“They had a damn insider on SCOTUS”: Experts alarmed after Trump lawyer emails inadvertently leak The emails also raise new questions about Justice Clarence Thomas' wife Ginni's contact with Trump attorney. Former President Donald Trump's lawyers believed that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was their best bet to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to newly released emails. Eight emails obtained by POLITICO revealed correspondence among Trump lawyers discussing legal strategies to convince Republican members of Congress to block the official certification of electoral votes on Jan. 6. The emails, which Trump legal adviser John Eastman tried to shield from Congress, were obtained after Eastman's lawyers accidentally uploaded the emails to be shared with the House Jan. 6 committee in a public Dropbox link. In one email from Trump attorney Ken Chesebro to Eastman and others, Chesebro wrote that Thomas would "end up being key" to their plot to overturn President Joe Biden's win. "We want to frame things so that Thomas could be the one to issue some sort of stay or other circuit justice opinion saying Georgia is in legitimate doubt," Chesebro wrote days before the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. https://www.salon.com/2022/11/03/they-had-a-damn-insider-on-scotus-experts-alarmed-after-lawyer-emails-inadvertently-leak/

Whenever organizations of any kind investigate themselves, the outcomes are almost always favourable to the organizations.

No doubt there are a lot of words Pat King does not understand. Education can interfere with what you believe.

I loved WKRP and was sorry to see it go. Loved the characters.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Over at Riderfans, there is a lynch mob forming. Several there who describe themselves as decades-long season ticket holders are preferring to pay a cancellation fee rather than renew. Very few are even moderately OK with Dickenson and O'Day retaining their jobs. This is ugly already and gonna get uglier.

Wisconsin GOP Gov. Nominee Makes Terrible Promise About What Will Happen If He Wins Donald Trump-endorsed Tim Michels was accused of saying "the quiet part out loud" to supporters on a campaign stop. Tim Michels, the Republican nominee for governor of Wisconsin, promised a group of supporters this week that the GOP would seize permanent control of the state if he is elected in next week’s midterms. “Republicans will never lose another election in Wisconsin after I’m elected governor,” the multimillionaire construction executive said during a campaign stop on Monday. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-tim-michels-election-promise_n_63621b46e4b045895a97be1f

“Connect the dots”: Pennsylvania Democrat attacked at his home days after Pelosi assault In an opinion column published by the Washington Post on Halloween, Never Trump conservative Max Boot emphasized that while some political violence in the United States has come from the left in recent years — including the 2017 shooting that Rep. Steve Scalise survived and an alleged plot to assassinate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh — the reality is that the majority of political violence plaguing the U.S. has been coming from the far right. Boot pointed to the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi, as a recent example, arguing that reporters shouldn't resort to "both sides" rhetoric in the hope of trying to appear fair-minded. On Friday, October 28, the Pelosis' home in San Francisco was invaded by a man who demanded to know, "Where is Nancy?" before attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer. "Where is Nancy?" are the same words that were used during the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building. One violent attack on a Democrat that hasn't received as much attention as the attack on Paul Pelosi is the one on Richard Ringer, who is running for a seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives via the 51st District. On Monday morning, October 31, Ringer was violently attacked by a man outside his home. Ringer, who is running for the Pennsylvania House seat presently held by the retiring Republican Rep. Matt Dowling, can't say for sure that the attack was politically motivated, but he suspects that it was. Ringer told Pittsburgh's Action News 4, "He had my arm behind my back, and he was pounding me. The only thing I have is the bruising on my hand and face, but he hit me a couple of times and knocked me out." According to Action News 4 reporter Jim Madalinsky, Ringer "has reported multiple incidents to state police over the past three weeks." "He said someone spray-painted a threatening message on his garage door a few weeks ago," Madalinsky reports. "One week later, Ringer said someone threw a brick through the window to his back door." Ringer told Action News 4, "All three incidents happened within the last three weeks, three weeks away from the election…. My neighborhood is safe. It's calm, and there's no crime whatsoever. If you just try to connect the dots, maybe. But I can't say definitively." https://www.salon.com/2022/11/01/connect-the-dots-pennsylvania-democrat-attacked-at-his-home-days-after-pelosi_partner/

Disagree with Michael Cohen's statement- Trump would throw ALL of his children and Melania under the bus to save $20.00

I cannot believe the moves made today by the Riders, and I am sure that the Rider fans are flabbergasted. As has been posted, NONE of the glaring deficiencies have been addressed, and I bet their record in 2023 will be even worse. Only ego-driven and/or brain-damaged potential coaches will want into that mess.

Many workplaces have restrictions as to what must be worn as well as many professions. What happened was all theatre staged by right-wing nuts and gullible thralls. I hope that if another pandemic arrives the governments of the day have the intelligence and fortitude to reinstate restrictions as necessary. There have been many examples of what happened when common-sense restrictions were not instituted and enforced. A good deal of the distress in our healthcare system (and others) is directly attributable to the COVID pandemic and the thoughtless stupidity of those who spread it.

The Riders' board of directors would be better off consulting and Ouija board than using the same process and group of geniuses that created the current mess.

That ought to be a circus for these cretins to strut and bloviate. A waste of time and money and I hope they get trashed on cross.

Musk may have bitten off more than he can chew. Twitter value dropped precipitously after the purchase, the N-bombs posted increased some 500% and Musk re-tweeted a ugly post that claimed that the attack on Nancy Pelosi's home was somehow staged. Moreover, Musk borrowed a tone of money from Saudis and the interest will be about ONE BILLION per year. Twitter has not been consistently profitable and not very profitable when it was.

Bolsonaro Plays Trump Card: Won’t Concede as Fans Block Roads -Reuters SÃO PAULO—The biggest and busiest city in South America was forced into a stunning standstill Monday night after supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro blocked roads across the city to protest the results of a fair and free election. Hundreds of Bolsonaro supporters, embittered by the victory of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva on Sunday, blocked the highway to the main airport in São Paulo, setting up barricades, chanting phrases like “Lula the robber!,” and starting fires in the middle of the road. The populist rightwinger has yet to concede the election since the unprecedentedly close result was announced Sunday, with leftist former president Lula winning by just 1.8 percentage points. With fears mounting that Bolsonaro could take a leaf from the playbook of his close ally, Donald Trump, and refuse to accept the result, truckers loyal to the incumbent have taken matters into their own hands.

Trump lawyers throw Allen Weisselberg under the bus as he prepares to spill the beans at trial Lawyers for former President Donald Trump's companies on Monday threw former longtime Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisslberg under the bus during opening statements at a criminal trial over whether the company committed tax fraud. Weisselberg and two of Trump's companies were indicted in Manhattan last year after prosecutors said the company's compensation to Weisselberg included perks like apartments, luxury cars and private school tuition for his grandchildren that were never reported on his taxes. Weisselberg in August pleaded guilty to 15 charges, including grand larceny, tax fraud and falsifying business records. He agreed to serve five months in prison, pay $1.9 million in back taxes and penalties and agreed to testify at the Trump Organization's trial. Prosecutors on Monday detailed his offenses and vowed that Weisselberg would give jurors the "inside story of how he conducted this tax scheme." "This case is about greed and cheating, cheating on taxes," prosecutor Susan Hoffinger said in court, according to Politico. "The scheme was conducted, directed and authorized at the highest level of the accounting department." Lawyers representing two of Trump's businesses at the trial, meanwhile, threw Weisselberg under the bus and suggested that Trump may be the real victim of the scheme. "Weisselberg did it for Weissleberg," Michael van der Veen, a lawyer for Trump's payroll company, said in court. https://www.salon.com/2022/11/01/lawyers-throw-allen-weisselberg-under-the-bus-as-he-prepares-to-spill-the-beans-at-trial/

Even if the BC medical staff shoot Rourke's foot full of joy juice, if he walks or runs to any degree, his foot will swell up so badly they will have to cut his shoe off and he sure as spit will be hobbled in the next game. But maybe winning one game is all they aspire to, knowing they will pulped against the Bombers. They may hope that Rourke will give the Lions enough of a lead before he is forced out that Adams can close the game out/

Ford must have a LOT of dirty laundry he does not want aired in the hearings.

Trump has more acolytes here in Canada than we hoped. Sad and sick comment on the Alberta right wing.

Extremist Gun Group Talks Of 'Firepower We Have To Unload' On Democratic Candidates Days after federal agencies warned of a heightened threat of violent attacks on political candidates, an extremist gun rights group on Monday urged supporters to give it money so it can figure out “how much firepower we have to unload on gun-grabbing candidates” in Senate races in key battleground states. “At midnight tomorrow, we’ll know exactly how much firepower we have to unload on gun-grabbing candidates in AZ, NV, GA, PA and OH as we head into next week’s election day,” reads a fundraising email from the American Firearms Association.

The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Are Going To End Affirmative Action In Higher Education The Supreme Court’s six conservative justices appeared ready to end affirmative action on Monday, during arguments in two cases challenging the limited use of race in college and university admissions. In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, white and Asian students claim that the use of race in admissions that helps the enrollment of Black, Hispanic and Native American students unconstitutionally discriminates against whites and Asians by violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act in both cases and the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause granting equal treatment to all persons under the law in the North Carolina case. The lawyers for Students for Fair Admissions, a nonprofit group run by conservative lawyer Ed Blum, who is white and has brought numerous cases before the Supreme Court challenging race-conscious policy-making, argued that any use of race was unconstitutional. They asked the court to overrule its prior precedents authorizing the limited use of race to achieve diversity in the 1978 case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke and the approval of the limited affirmative action program used by the University of Michigan in Grutter v. Bollinger. “Grutter is grievously wrong,” Patrick Strawbridge, counsel for Students for Fair Admissions, said in arguing that any consideration of race in admissions is unconstitutional and “divisive.” The court’s six-justice conservative supermajority has the votes to overturn Grutter. Justices John Roberts, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas have all previously ruled in favor of ending race-conscious affirmative action programs. While Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett have a limited record on the issue, they all aligned with the arguments made by the plaintiffs on Monday. Indeed, in their questioning of the lawyers in support of the University of North Carolina, the conservative justices set up a lose-lose situation. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-affirmative-action_n_63600d1fe4b08fd5e954d2c4