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Whatever, you don’t pay out 3.5 million for nothing, the dude did something that was going to send him to jail, or do folks like him pay that kind of money not to be embarrassed?
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No shit.
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The FBI don’t go after former speakers of the House for nothing.
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What could he have done 35 years ago - short of murder, manslaughter, treason, arson, or forgery - that would not be subject to a statute of limitations?
The indictment isn’t for the sex crime, it is for the hush money paid and lying to the FBI. Statute on the sex crimes has long run out. Ironically, the banking laws he broke are the ones he pushed through congress as part of the Patriot Act to track money laundering, the same laws that brought down Eliot Spitzer.
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FFS, I know that. My point, if you’ll re-read what I wrote, is that he was paying hush money to avoid embarrassment, not to avoid criminal charges for some bad acts in his past. Those bad acts are not subject to criminal prosecution because of the statute of limitations.