Nice write-up, but I must offer one small correction. It’s the *Seaford-*Oyster Bay Expressway, Rte. 135, which oddly enough ends up in Syosset. At one time it was intended to lead to a bridge across Long Island Sound to Connecticut, which project never came to fruition. Back on topic, Michael Cohen is in deep, deep doo-doo.
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May the same fate befall every bottom feeding scum sucker who attached themselves to Trump for the easy grift.
Assholes be apuckerin’.
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The entire Trump-related probe from Cohen to Manafort is a huge cascading series of these.
Getzel’s small accounting firm in Woodbury, Long Island, specializes in servicing the taxi, cannabis, entertainment, and catering industries, among others.
All perfectly respectable industries involving only normal working people, small businesses like themselves.
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They will all rat fuck each other and Mueller’s report is going to be so satisfying!
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Damn. This story is thick.
It is no secret the white collar crime rarely gets prosecuted when compared to the garden variety cases that populate state dockets. But when there is one crack in the veneer, several follow.
The world really is flat around all these people. Corruption is a business model. It’s like a secret handshake. Criminal intent is the cost of initiating business deals. And while I reach for another fistful of popcorn, I am beginning to think that there may be not enough of the stuff in the world to satisfy my appetite.
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There is not. It’s a myth.
This has been another episode of obvious answers to simple questions. Thanks for playing!
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I suspect that Cohen borrowed money from shady sources to buy all those now near worthless medallions. And he is on the hook with the “break your knees if you don’t pay crowd” - hence his willingness to seek Federal protection.
But that is a much better place to be than Manafort who is on the hook with the “polonium in your tea; nerve gas on your doorknob; mysterious falls from high windows; public shooting; apparent suicide by hanging” crowd.
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Right - effective “codes of silence” are not a function of “honor” but of guarantees of being whacked if you talk.
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As it happens, I spend too damn much of my time imagining just such a thing. Although, I imagine him not having to defend or explain so much what he has said, but rather what he has DONE. I don’t imagine this going well for him. I see him spending the rest of his days in Federal Prison. These are my good days.
On my bad days, I imagine him not having to defend anything in court.
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…and slammed the phone down when TPM called on Wednesday.
Impossible to discern from the caller’s end.
I believe Friedman’s deal was so extraordinarily generous because this is basically the opening salvo to SDNY lifting the hood on the Jewish-Russian Mafia in NYC. I imagine if he’s got the goods that Michael Cohen will also be offered such a deal, as his information also has the added bonus of all of Trump’s dirty doings.
Of course either or both could be bumped off by Russian crime lords, but I really don’t know much about that.
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This story is highly significant for the political/legal business. However, it ought to bring home the absurd structure of the taxi business in NYC. We have had “taxi kings” because the medallions were so valuable and the kings kept virtually all the money and left the drivers who supported them in very dire straits. I think the whole business, including the Uber/Lyft crew, needs to be restructured now that the medallions are worthless, especially since this trial has made it ridiculously obvious how crooked the medallion owners are. I am a retired physician and have none of the skills to take this up, but someone ought to.
Agree, and am amazed Felix Sater still lives. Just how did he get his hands on a Michael Flynn missive?
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Get a lot of phones slammed on you in your day?
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Indeed I have. I used to do telephone marketing surveys.
When someone hangs up, it’s a click and that’s the end of it. It doesn’t matter how hard they hang up.