Feds investigating National Enquirer

[Centrista]

The National Enquirer boss had an immunity agreement with federal prosecutors, but the deal stated that he must not commit any crimes in the meantime.
Now federal prosecutors are trying to determine whether the National Enquirer committed a crime by threatening to expose Jeff Bezos nude pictures:

Federal prosecutors are reportedly reviewing National Enquirer's handling of Jeff Bezos story

 

[Pete7469]

It's "INVESTIGATING" leftista, you imbecile....

and since when should the feds be involved in policing the press?

Oh wait, your meat puppet faggot set that precedent.

So when we start prosecuting NYSlimes "journalists" for publishing classified information you'll keep your cock holster shut?

 

[g5000]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...edb0c92dc17_story.html?utm_term=.e3262e56f3f7

When the National Enquirer published explicit text messages between Amazon founder Jeffrey P. Bezos and the woman he was having an affair with, the world’s richest man made clear he wanted to find out how the tabloid got hold of his private communications.

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Depending on whom you believe, the Enquirer’s exposé on Bezos’s affair was a political hit inspired by President Trump’s allies, an inside job by people seeking to protect Bezos’s marriage, or no conspiracy at all, simply a juicy gossip story.

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Bezos’s longtime private security consultant, Gavin de Becker, has concluded that the billionaire was not hacked. Rather, de Becker said in an interview, the Enquirer’s scoop about Bezos’s relationship with former TV anchor Lauren Sanchez began with a “politically motivated” leak meant to embarrass the owner of The Post — an effort potentially involving several important figures in Trump’s 2016 campaign.

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Bezos and Trump — two wealthy business executives who became famous as billionaire disrupters upending the worlds of retailing and politics — have traded Twitter barbs in the past. And Trump often lumps Bezos’s separate ventures, Amazon and The Post, together in an effort to discredit the newspaper’s reporting.

Bezos’s ownership of The Post was highlighted on the cover of the unusual, 12-page spread on the Bezos-Sanchez affair that the Enquirer published last month.

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According to three people familiar with the tabloid’s discussions, the Enquirer was ready to publish a story on Bezos and Lauren Sanchez in early autumn but held off because Pecker, a longtime associate and supporter of the president, wanted to wait until after the midterm elections and did not want to feed the public impression that he was a tool for Trump.

 

[Centrista]

It's "INVESTIGATING" leftista, you imbecile....

Oh wait, your meat puppet faggot set that precedent.

So when we start prosecuting NYSlimes "journalists" for publishing classified information you'll keep your cock holster shut?

Are owners of newspapers immune from extortion?

 

[g5000]

Neither Trump nor Bezos would be in half the hot water they are in if they kept their damn zippers up.

 

[Centrista]

Neither Trump nor Bezos would be in half the hot water they are in if they kept their damn zippers up.

National Enquirer wouldn’t be in hot water if they had not tried to blackmail Jeff Bezos

 

[bodecea]

It's "INVESTIGATING" leftista, you imbecile....

and since when should the feds be involved in policing the press?

Oh wait, your meat puppet faggot set that precedent.

So when we start prosecuting NYSlimes "journalists" for publishing classified information you'll keep your cock holster shut?

You sound nervous....disturbed.

 

[g5000]

Neither Trump nor Bezos would be in half the hot water they are in if they kept their damn zippers up.

National Enquirer wouldn’t be in hot water if they had not tried to blackmail Jeff Bezos

How could they blackmail him if he had kept his zipper up?

 

[Centrista]

Neither Trump nor Bezos would be in half the hot water they are in if they kept their damn zippers up.

National Enquirer wouldn’t be in hot water if they had not tried to blackmail Jeff Bezos

How could they blackmail him if he had kept his zipper up?

I didn’t say anything about Bezos being in hot water. I explained why the national Inquirer is.

 

[bendog]

I don't think it's news that the Bezos' marriage is Kaput because Bezos, like millions of men, has hit male menopause and needs "change of scenery."

Whether Peckler was trying to blackmail Bezos to kill a wash post story, and if so, what story ... remains to be seen

 

[Lesh]

Neither Trump nor Bezos would be in half the hot water they are in if they kept their damn zippers up.

National Enquirer wouldn’t be in hot water if they had not tried to blackmail Jeff Bezos

Or engaged in the payoffs and conspiracy involved

 

[bendog]

Neither Trump nor Bezos would be in half the hot water they are in if they kept their damn zippers up.

National Enquirer wouldn’t be in hot water if they had not tried to blackmail Jeff Bezos

Or engaged in the payoffs and conspiracy involved

There you go. The question is whether they "sought anything of value" from Bezos to not publish. If they did, Mr. Bezos may be acquiring another newspaper.

 

[konradv]

Neither Trump nor Bezos would be in half the hot water they are in if they kept their damn zippers up.

National Enquirer wouldn’t be in hot water if they had not tried to blackmail Jeff Bezos

Or engaged in the payoffs and conspiracy involved

There you go. The question is whether they "sought anything of value" from Bezos to not publish. If they did, Mr. Bezos may be acquiring another newspaper.

Criminally there may be a gray area, but civilly one's reputation could very well be considered "something of value".

 

[g5000]

Neither Trump nor Bezos would be in half the hot water they are in if they kept their damn zippers up.

National Enquirer wouldn’t be in hot water if they had not tried to blackmail Jeff Bezos

Or engaged in the payoffs and conspiracy involved

There you go. The question is whether they "sought anything of value" from Bezos to not publish. If they did, Mr. Bezos may be acquiring another newspaper.

The National Enquirer is not a newspaper.

It's a rag.

 

[Lesh]

Pecker's got his pecker in the ringer

 

[Dana7360]

AMI had stolen property. That's a felony crime.

AMI tried to intimidate someone to make claims that are lies. Which is tampering with a witness if it's connected to a crime. That's also a felony crime.

Besides the blackmail and extortion, they committed other crimes that very much are not gray areas.