Comments on: The Cohen plea and the Daniels payments: not even a crime https://thenewneo.com/2018/12/17/the-cohen-plea-and-the-daniels-payments-not-even-a-crime/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 19 Dec 2018 07:26:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2018/12/17/the-cohen-plea-and-the-daniels-payments-not-even-a-crime/#comment-2416062 Wed, 19 Dec 2018 07:26:14 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=83144#comment-2416062 see Yancey’s theory on the Flynn refusing to ditch his plea bargain — it’s complex
https://www.thenewneo.com/2018/12/18/somewhat-confusing-messages-from-judge-sullivan-in-the-flynn-hearing/#comment-2416059

See Dyer here for another possible wrinkle in the case
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/12/18/judge-orders-original-flynn-302-made-public-in-redacted-version-as-usual-it-exposes-what-the-fbi-was-doing/

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2018/12/17/the-cohen-plea-and-the-daniels-payments-not-even-a-crime/#comment-2415989 Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:53:34 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=83144#comment-2415989 Flynn was his own worst enemy in all this. After today, I’m even starting to give him low marks for brains.

Yeah, decorated flag rank officers are idiots and need to go to school with random combox denizens.

]]> By: Mike K https://thenewneo.com/2018/12/17/the-cohen-plea-and-the-daniels-payments-not-even-a-crime/#comment-2415983 Tue, 18 Dec 2018 18:45:42 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=83144#comment-2415983 What was the judge’s offer ? I saw none.

Ace has nothing about it.

The Clinton-appointed judge, Emmett Sullivan, claimed that Flynn’s suggestion that the FBI misled him (which it, you know, did) cast doubt on Flynn’s acceptance of culpability. The not-so-veiled threat from the judge is that if Flynn wouldn’t repudiate his previous complaints about the FBI, he’d toss out the plea deal and sentence Flynn more harshly than the plea called for.

That was his “offer?”

]]> By: titan28 https://thenewneo.com/2018/12/17/the-cohen-plea-and-the-daniels-payments-not-even-a-crime/#comment-2415979 Tue, 18 Dec 2018 18:25:32 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=83144#comment-2415979 Woke up today hoping the Flynn plea would get tossed and he would walk out of court a free man. But Flynn refused, more than once after being asked by Sullivan, to change his plea. Then Sullivan bought up treason on the Turkey front.

Didn’t see that coming.

Flynn was his own worst enemy in all this. After today, I’m even starting to give him low marks for brains. What’s his reason for not accepting the judge’s offer?

Did he suspect a trap? What does Mueller have on him?

]]> By: Mike K https://thenewneo.com/2018/12/17/the-cohen-plea-and-the-daniels-payments-not-even-a-crime/#comment-2415975 Tue, 18 Dec 2018 17:13:32 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=83144#comment-2415975 A lot of us are waiting to see what Judge Sullivan does.

He has an enormous responsibility and I wonder if he is up to it.

Too bad he is 71. He might make a good USSC Justice.

]]> By: Billsv https://thenewneo.com/2018/12/17/the-cohen-plea-and-the-daniels-payments-not-even-a-crime/#comment-2415957 Tue, 18 Dec 2018 13:18:43 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=83144#comment-2415957 Taxing the remittances is a good way but also make any donation to Go Cund Me to build a wall a tax credit

]]> By: parker https://thenewneo.com/2018/12/17/the-cohen-plea-and-the-daniels-payments-not-even-a-crime/#comment-2415940 Tue, 18 Dec 2018 05:04:34 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=83144#comment-2415940 Every man for himself, the rule of law against all. This will not end well. Prepare accordingly, or be defenseless victims. Better to die defending liberty, or die in the gulag. Fool believing in the rule of law is possible or waking up to the lawlessness of those who decide what is the rule of law.

]]> By: ken https://thenewneo.com/2018/12/17/the-cohen-plea-and-the-daniels-payments-not-even-a-crime/#comment-2415923 Tue, 18 Dec 2018 02:59:02 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=83144#comment-2415923 One wonders, at least I do, whether a judge, who one assumes knows the law, would let someone plead guilty to something that is not a crime.

]]> By: Richard Saunders https://thenewneo.com/2018/12/17/the-cohen-plea-and-the-daniels-payments-not-even-a-crime/#comment-2415919 Tue, 18 Dec 2018 02:44:43 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=83144#comment-2415919 Manju:

You’re right. That Robert Mueller is one hell of a prosecutor! After nearly two years and $40 million, they’ve managed to find out that Paul Manafort evaded taxes and laundered money for some Ukranian kleptocrats five or six years ago, that Michael Cohen is a sleazebag, and that there are some Russians who will never see the inside if a US courtroom who did something, maybe bought $150,000 of Facebook ads. Oh yeah, and they entrapped LTG Flynn into lying. Unless he didn’t.

Now, that’s some prosecutorial achievement!

P.S. When Mueller’s gang indicted those Russians, they were totally surprised and dismayed to find out one of the companies indicted hired a US lawyer who showed up and pled them not guilty. Anybody want to bet the charges against that company will be dismissed? (Anyone but parker, he doesn’t pay his bets.)

]]> By: Julie near Chicago https://thenewneo.com/2018/12/17/the-cohen-plea-and-the-daniels-payments-not-even-a-crime/#comment-2415904 Tue, 18 Dec 2018 01:27:29 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=83144#comment-2415904 Geoffrey: Wise man, “K.”

Also a very good (entertaining) movie.

Despite anti-Bug bigotry.

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