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E. Jean Carroll is being investigated by the DOJ

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Why is Carroll being investigated at this late date? Apparently it’s for conspiracy and perjury about who funded her:

According to [Byron] York, the probe appears to zero in on the very origins of Carroll’s case – a story that traces back to a swanky Manhattan ‘Resistance party’ where anti-Trump operatives, deep-pocketed donors, and eager lawyers cooked up the defamation lawsuit that later ballooned into a full-blown battery claim under New York’s specially tailored Adult Survivors Act.

Carroll’s story of rape never passed the smell test, for a host of reasons I and many others have written about before. You can read York’s own effort from 2023 here. In summary: her accusations against Trump were incredibly weak and both politically and financially motivated, in addition to being a reflection of Carroll’s quest for notoriety.

But her accusations aren’t the issue now except tangentially. The issue is her funding:

If you don’t have access to X:

There’s also this, which downplays the perjury aspect and focuses on other irregularities and possible charges:

The probe is focused on a trust founded by billionaire Democratic donor Reid Hoffman, whose nonprofit helped pay some of Carroll’s legal costs, two sources said. Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, is an outspoken critic of Trump.

The crimes under investigation are possible money laundering, obstruction, and conspiracy, one of the sources said. Investigators are also looking into a possible perjury charge against Carroll related to her testimony in the lawsuits, the source said, but it’s not the main focus of the probe.

Will a prosecution come from this? I doubt it, but it’s possible.

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E. Jean Carroll is being investigated by the DOJ — 7 Comments

  1. And, when has the DOJ previously concerned itself with matters of perjury during a deposition for a civil case in state court?

    I won’t defend E. Jean Carroll in any way, shape or form, but open your eyes. This is yet another gross abuse of power by Trump.

  2. This idiotic case has completely destroyed the credibility of our legal system. I don’t care what Trump does.

  3. Bauxite (7:19 pm) said: “This is yet another gross abuse of power by Trump.”

    As long as the enemy brings a gun to the ongoing fight while our side brings a butter knife playing by Marquess of Queensberry rules, Bauxite is essentially correct.

    But at some point, we need to do to them as they’ve been doing to us for decades. Otherwise, our side will continue to congenially let byones be bygones, while the enemy is not-so-congenially licking their chops and reloading for their next volley of bullets.

    They’re playing for *all* the marbles, Bauxite, now and forever, and our side has *got* to be equally serious — dead serious — or else it’s already all over.

  4. CC™-R sees everything through his Ahab filters.

    Baghdad Bauxite h/t Turtler

  5. CBS now saying their source has changed their story. It is not Carroll being investigated.

    On Wednesday evening, a source familiar with the matter told CBS News that the investigation was focused on whether Carroll had committed perjury during a deposition in connection with her civil lawsuits against Mr. Trump in which she alleged he had sexually abused and defamed her.

    On Thursday, however, that source followed up and said Carroll is not the target of the investigation, which is focused on funding that Hoffman’s nonprofit, American Future Republic, provided to help cover some of her legal team’s expenses.

    On Thursday evening, after this report published, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Andrew Boutros, said in a statement on X: “In light of wide-spread reporting and intense media and public interest into the E. Jean Carroll matter in New York, the Chicago U.S. Attorney’s Office can confirm that it has not opened—and has never opened—a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll. Any claim to the contrary is categorically false.”

    Two separate sources also confirmed that the probe is focused on the American Future Republic. One of the sources added that while the perjury allegations against Carroll were part of the original referral that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago received earlier this year, prosecutors there are not pursuing that line of inquiry at this time.

    Counsel for Carroll declined to comment.

    To me it sounds like this was deliberately misreported to fool people like Bauxite, but I’m cynical about journalism.

  7. There have been so many hideous abuses of the legal system to injure Trump, his counsel, and his supporters that complaints about this are twee.
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