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>>this seems like a weak case to me. Said another commenter who, like everyone else outside of the DA's office, has literally no data on what is in the now-rep
by toss1 4y ago
>>this seems like a weak case to me.
Said another commenter who, like everyone else outside of the DA's office, has literally no data on what is in the now-reported to be 34 indictments.
>> hard to parse the above, but it sounds very technical
So, "I don't know what I'm talking about, generally don't like it, so I'll just call it weak.", is itself a very weak statement.
It is extremely unlikely that this reluctant prosecutor would go to the mat with a weak case around one event such as a payoff to one woman, even if it was done in a way to violate tax and campaign finance laws.
We know no details, but there are clues in the public domain. The same DA office already convicted the Trump Organization on 17 counts and got the maximum fines [0]. There were witnisses called before the Grand Jury who would have spoken to much more than a single payoff scheme. There were multiple women, and David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer, who was known to have paid for and killed multiple scandalous stories on Trump's behalf, and Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, who plead guilty in a 15-year Trump Org Tax Scheme.
Based on this, it is a reasonable inference to expect charges of a years-long conspiracy to commit tax, business, and campaign fraud.
I suppose if you consider white-collar crime "technical" and therefore weak, any such indictments would be weak.
But in terms of the actual strength of the case, based both on that DA's record of convictions, and the historic profile of this case (and the career-terminating consequences of losing it), they would not be bringing charges unless they thought they were extremely strong and they were extremely confident of winning.
[0]https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-organization-sentenced-tax-fraud-conviction/story?id=96394835 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-organization-sentenced...
- srotajuu 4y ago> 34 indictments A word of caution, 11 of those counts likely correspond to the 11 reimbursements of Cohen. There are likely many repeated actions which all work together as a unit. So I wouldn't make too much of the number until we have more information.