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Friday, December 4th, 2020

Justice Department investigating potential presidential pardon bribery scheme, court records reveal

Author:     Katelyn Polantz
Source:     CNN Politics
Publication Date:     6:01 AM ET, Wed December 2, 2020
 Link: Justice Department investigating potential presidential pardon bribery scheme, court records reveal
Stephan:   Every day a new Trumpian grift is reported in the media. Think about this:  had the Senate Republicans had any sense of morality and ethics this criminal could have been removed from office months ago, and this constant rain of grifts and crimes could have been avoided. I am surprised more people in media are not talking about this.
Department of Justice

The Justice Department is investigating a potential crime related to funneling money to the White House or related political committee in exchange for a presidential pardon, according to court records unsealed Tuesday in federal court.

The case is the latest legal twist in the waning days of President Donald Trump’s administration after several of his top advisers have been convicted of federal criminal charges and as the possibility rises of Trump giving pardons to those who’ve been loyal to him.

The disclosure is in 20 pages of partially redacted documents made public by the DC District Court on Tuesday afternoon. The records show Chief Judge Beryl Howell’s review in August of a request from prosecutors to access documents obtained in a search as part of a bribery-for-pardon investigation. 

The filings don’t reveal a timeline of the alleged scheme, or any names of people potentially involved, except that communications between people including at least one lawyer were seized from an office that was raided sometime before the end of this summer.

No one appears to have been publicly charged with a […]

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