“Everyone involved in the 2016 hush-money payments says they were campaign-related — except Trump”
Philip Bump for WaPo.
Category Archives: chicanery
“Deny, defy, disdain: Georgia election chief adopts familiar voting security strategy”
Politico:
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is no longer the state’s chief election official — but his combative style in defending its insecure voting technology lives on.Fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, Kemp’s successor as secretary of state, has been pursuing the… Continue reading
“It Doesn’t Matter If They Voted By Mistake. A Trump Appointee In North Carolina Doesn’t Care”
Sam Levine for HuffPo:
Most of the cases receiving sentencing hearings, it appears, were misunderstandings and mistakes made by voters and poll workers. But in February, during a sentencing hearing for Juan Francisco Landeros-Mireles, a Mexican immigrant who has been… Continue reading
Attorney Who Negotiated with Michael Cohen Over Stormy Daniels Payments Said Payments “Done for Political Reasons”
ABC News interview:
Keith Davidson, the former attorney for adult-film star Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal, detailed his role in negotiating hush-money deals to keep both women quiet about alleged affairs with Donald Trump, claiming a… Continue reading
“A mysterious payment to Paul Manafort’s lawyer reveals a hidden chapter of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign”
A lot going on in this CNBC story by Christina Wilkie.
“Disinformation in the 2018 U.S. Midterm Elections: Identifying Misattributed Photos and Visual Propaganda against the October 2018 Migrant Caravan”
This post appears at the Free Internet Project.
Don’t miss the Ginni Thomas cameo.
“Texas’ desperate search for fraudulent voters”
Robert Brischetto catalogs
what Texas has found.
More on the prosecution of noncitizens voting in North Carolina
Sam Levine with followup
on some of the North Carolina federal
prosecutions of noncitizen voting.
And earlier, with a contrast
of Crystal Mason’s sentence for casting a ballot while on supervised release and
Paul Manafort’s sentence for tax and bank… Continue reading
“Paul Manafort sentenced to about 4 years in prison in Virginia case”
In line with sentencing guidelines, prosecutors had recommended 19-24 years; Judge Ellis sentenced Manafort to 47 months.
As a reminder, this case (in Virginia) concerned tax fraud and bank fraud. The sentencing in Manafort’s DC case (after a plea… Continue reading
Federal Prosecutors Agree to Drop Charges Against Rep. Schock
A deferred
prosecution agreement says that charges
(including tax fraud, wire fraud, and theft of funds based on misappropriation
of Congressional and campaign funds for personal use) will be dropped against
Rep. Aaron Schock if he repays $68,000 and pays… Continue reading
“Michael Cohen sues Trump Organization for legal fees resulting from Mueller probe, porn star lawsuit”
This
ought to be fascinating. Not least
because if it goes anywhere, it may actually shed some light on what Cohen and
the Trump Organization actually thought was legal representation and what was
not. There’s been an awful lot… Continue reading
“Second Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s Census Citizenship Question Plans”
Big
(and voluminous) news from California: in a 126-page
opinion, Judge Seeborg has enjoined the inclusion of a question regarding
citizenship on the 2020 census.
The decision follows on Judge Furman’s opinion out of New
York, but is more… Continue reading
House Oversight Requests Documents re 2018 Georgia Elections
The House Oversight Committee asked
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp today for a set of documents related to voters’
difficulties in Georgia in 2018. So far,
it’s just a request. And Kemp appears
unimpressed.
“Hillary Clinton’s claims about voter suppression in Georgia and Wisconsin”
WaPo’s
FactChecker reviews some of Hillary Clinton’s claims about the 2016
election at the Selma Bloody Sunday commemorative service for this past weekend.