The Federal Election Commission slapped the National Enquirer’s parent company with a $187,500 fine for its role in 2016 in silencing a Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with Donald Trump.
Only 4.5 years after the election, yet they did their press release first business day of the week. I’ll bet they’re proud of themselves.
Peanuts, and too late to make a difference.
And still no penalties for Individual Number One.
Yeah. That will leave a mark. /s
Comey-cide
Federal authorities have charged a 43-year-old man with murder after outgoing Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin pardoned him a year after his family had raised thousands of dollars for the Republican politician.
U.S. Marshals arrested Patrick Baker on Sunday, and federal prosecutors charged him for the 2014 killing of Donald Mills, according to court records the Courier-Journal obtained on Tuesday.
Baker was convicted in 2017 of reckless homicide and first-degree robbery for fatally shooting 29-year-old Mills during a home invasion in which he had hoped to steal pain pills.
Baker was sentenced to 19 years behind bars in 2017, but Bevin pardoned him after losing his election to current Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear.
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Rob Sanders, a Kentucky prosecutor, told The Cincinnati Enquirer at the time that a decision to issue pardons on those grounds “shocks the conscience.”
A federal indictment obtained by the Courier-Journal says Baker killed Mills “willfully, deliberately, maliciously, and with premeditation and malice during the perpetration of any robbery and kidnapping.”
If convicted, Baker could face the death penalty or a maximum sentence of life in prison.
The National Enquirer new tag line: “All the News that’s fit to suppress”. I suppose it’s better than their old one: “We were fake news long before Donald Trump and we still are!”
Again, Trump is getting away scott free for the crimes he commits. Someone else has to pay! Hopefully, his luck is about to run out!
Every time David Pecker’s name appears it should be preceded by “the aptly named.”
A lawless** man who has savagely abused the principle “Presumption of Innocence”.
**and admired for it.
$187,500 fine
That’d be like a 50 cent fine to me. If you want to impress them make it hurt.
Dotard T rumpp had Pecker in his pocket, all along.
It is insulting and the only way it is not is if it is a harbinger of things to come.
WoRse than ReparatiOnS. WorsE than the HoloCaust! WitCh hunT.
That pardon was levels of skeevy that would have given pause to even Donald Trump. Glad to see the feds are aiming to set it straight.
Anybody else catch NPR’s interview this morning of former Canadian athlete Dick Pound?
(No special reason for asking.)
O/T But Still FL
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article251816073.html
So today the first day of June, and the first day Pride Month and DeSantis signs into law banning transgender girls from competing in girls sports, and to rub totally be an asshole signs at a Christian school in Jackson. FL.
Yeah but has anyone correct the pardon the Bevins gave the rapist of a 9 year old?
I’m going to listen to pre Trump Kanye (mood)