Trump's Present and Future possible indictments

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The Great Rolling Trump Fraud

A summary judgment in the legal case against the former president rules that he’s exactly as shady as he looks.

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Donald Trump co-defendant in Georgia racketeering case, Scott Hall, pleads guilty to 5 misdemeanors

One of Donald Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia election racketeering case, Scott Hall, pleaded guilty Friday to five misdemeanors.

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The standard practice for prosecutors who are trying to hold the leaders of a group of criminals accountable is to “go up the chain.” In a drug trafficking case, that means you start with lower level defendants, perhaps people engaged in hand-to-hand drug buys that are readily provable. Then the prosecutor “flips” that defendant to help prosecutors make a case on his supplier. They continue up the chain as far as they can, reaching larger and larger dealers, regional suppliers, and hopefully, depending on the type of case, they end up able to prosecute the leaders of the drug trafficking organization.

This works when a lower level defendant understands that by cooperating with prosecutors, he can limit his own criminal exposure, perhaps avoiding prosecution altogether, or being permitted to plead to lower level charges that carry less time in prison. Some defendants plead guilty to all of the charges against them, but receive a favorable recommendation at sentencing from prosecutors because of their cooperation, asking the judge to give them a lower sentence than they would otherwise receive.

Successful cooperation is conditioned on truthful testimony. Cooperating defendants understand that if they lie about anything, the deal is off. Prosecutors drill anyone being offered a deal on this point. And better deals are available to defendants who cooperate early—“first in gets the best deal” is something you’ll hear prosecutors say—when getting the first a break in a case is more crucial.



That brings us to today and Scott Hall, an Atlanta-area bail bondsman who was facing seven charges in the Fulton County case, including a RICO violation and conspiring to steal sensitive election data in Coffee County. This afternoon, with little advance notice, Hall pled guilty to five misdemeanors, will serve five years of probation, pay a $5,000 fine, and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. It’s the sort of deal that is so beneficial to a defendant that it suggests prosecutors believe his cooperation is valuable enough to merit the bargain.

So what might Hall be able to do? It’s not clear how important of a role he played in the overall scheme, and who he might have had direct communications with. But Hall was in the thick of things with Sidney Powell when she went to Coffee County, Georgia on January 7, the day after the insurrection, to carry out her scheme to illegally access voting machines. Hall’s cooperation is a bad sign for Powell. And Powell, in turn, had conversations about pursuing the Big Lie with others in the group and was in the room with Trump during some of the key conversations.

Sidney Powell isn't the only Trump co-defendant who should be concerned by Hall’s plea deal. Hall reportedly had an hour long call with Jeff Clark on January 2nd. That’s a long time for the Georgia bail bondsman to have been on the line with the Attorney General-wannabe who wanted to push states Biden won to call those results into question based on untrue allegations of fraud to try and swing the electoral vote call to Trump. It’s unlikely the call was just an hour of pleasantries. Precisely what was said and how good Hall’s recollection is—and whether or not he has contemporaneous notes or other verification of what took place during the call—remains to be seen.

If prosecutors follow a typical trajecotry, they will work up the chain from Hall to Powell and Clark, and perhaps others. It’s hard to imagine that either of them wants to spend a significant amount of time in state prison in Georgia, especially to protect Donald Trump. So far there’s no sign either one has seriously contemplated a plea. But they know, and now prosecutors do as well, about their interactions with Hall and what testimony he can offer against them. They are now the next step up in the chain. Prosecutors have already said they will offer deals to both Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, whose trials are set to begin on October 23, although those deals are very unlikely to be as generous as Hall’s given the extent and nature of their conduct. But if prosecutors are able to make deals with either of them, or with Jeff Clark, that’s extremely bad news for Donald Trump. And Fani Willis, because she’s indicted local Georgia figures along with Trump and his legal and political advisers, is uniquely suited to make deals like the one with Hall that aren’t available to Special Counsel Jack Smith, who indicted Mr. Trump as a standalone defendant. Any deals Willis makes could benefit both of their cases. Things could get very interesting this week as more defendants begit to feel the squeeze.

Perhaps there will be more plea agreements this coming week.

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The standard practice for prosecutors who are trying to hold the leaders of a group of criminals accountable is to “go up the chain.” In a drug trafficking case, that means you start with lower level defendants, perhaps people engaged in hand-to-hand drug buys that are readily provable. Then the...

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Hunter Biden has filed a civil suit against Rudy Giuliani, a number of shell companies through which Giuliani does business, and Giuliani’s attorney Robert Costello. The suit charges Giuliani and Costello with violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, specifically accessing Hunter Biden’s personal information “without authorization or exceeding authorized access,” resulting in the “total annihilation” of his digital privacy.

Additionally, the suit reminds the court—and everyone else—that for all the talk of “Hunter Biden’s laptop,” there is no laptop. There never was. Instead, “Defendants themselves admit that their purported possession of a ‘laptop’ is in fact not a ‘laptop’ at all. It is, according to their own public statements, an ‘external drive’ that Defendants were told contained hundreds of gigabytes of Plaintiff’s personal data.”

According to Giuliani, the data on that drive came from John Paul Mac Isaac, the former owner of a computer repair shop, who claimed to have data taken from one of Hunter Biden’s laptops and who offered to send it to Giuliani. According to the lawsuit, neither Isaac nor Giuliani ever maintained any kind of chain of custody on this data, and the data they have has been not just accessed but also tampered with, manipulated, altered, and damaged.


The basis of the lawsuit is the claim that Giuliani and Costello violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by accessing the data stored on the external drive sent to them by Isaac. Hunter Biden specifically does not admit that all the data on the drive was ever in his possession, or that Isaac was ever actually in possession of a laptop that Biden had owned.

What the lawsuit alleges of Giuliani seems patently obvious.

Plaintiff is informed and believes and thereon alleges for the past many months Defendant Giuliani has spent many hours hacking into and manipulating data that he claims to have been obtained from Plaintiff, making copies of the data for himself and others to access and analyze, and further altering, impairing and damaging the data through his unlawful hacking and manipulation. In public interviews and media appearances and during podcasts, Defendant Giuliani has not only admitted but bragged about downloading data from Plaintiff’s “laptop” (even though he only had a hard drive) onto his own computer; about using his own computer to access, tamper with and manipulate the downloaded data; and about maintaining multiple copies of the data for his and Defendant Costello’s personal use.

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There is no laptop: Hunter Biden sues Rudy Giuliani

Hunter Biden has filed a civil suit against Rudy Giuliani, a number of shell companies through which Giuliani does business, and Giuliani’s attorney Robert Costello. The suit charges Giuliani and ...

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The Week Ahead

October 1, 2023

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"So I don't know all the components for it." The juxtaposition got to the heart of New York Attorney General Letitia James's lawsuit against Trump, Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr.,

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Fulton County D.A. subpoenas Bernie Kerik as government witness in Trump election interference case

Bernie Kerik has been subpoenaed to testify as a government witness in the October trial of Trump co-conspirators Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell.

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A New York judge imposed a limited gag order on defendant Donald Trump Tuesday after the former president disparaged a key court staffer during his civil business fraud trial.

Judge Arthur Engoron issued the order, which applies to all parties in the case and pertains only to verbal attacks on court staff. It came after Trump recirculated a disparaging social media post about Engoron’s principal law clerk, Allison Greenfield.

Without naming Trump, Engoron said that a defendant in the case “posted to a social media account a disparaging, untrue and personally identifying post about a member of my staff.” He added that “personal attacks on members of my court staff are unacceptable, not appropriate” and not tolerated

New York judge issues limited gag order after Trump makes disparaging post about court clerk

A judge has imposed a limited gag order on President Donald Trump after he disparaged a key court staffer during his civil business fraud trial.

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