Ex-President of #Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, convicted of #WitnessTampering bribery offense in long political #corruption trial...
Ex-President of #Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, convicted of #WitnessTampering bribery offense in long political #corruption trial...
Thousands of applications from individuals with credible evidence of service with Afghan Special Forces, including the units known as the Triples, were rejected, leaving many of the former commandos at the mercy of the Taliban.
This came at the same time when a judge-led public inquiry in the #UK had begun investigating the #SAS for alleged #WarCrimes in operations on which the #Triples were present.
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#CharlesKushner, the father of #Trump's son-in-law #JaredKushner, told the US #Senate on Thurs he could be trusted to exercise good judgment if confirmed as US #ambassador to #France, despite his past #conviction for #TaxEvasion & #WitnessTampering & other federal charges.
"I made a very, very, very serious mistake & I paid a heavy price for that mistake," Kushner, a wealthy real estate developer, said during a hearing before the Senate #ForeignRelations Cmte.
#law
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-ambassador-france-nominee-kushner-acknowledges-past-serious-mistake-2025-05-01/
"Trump operates like a mob boss, surrounding himself with family members and groveling loyalists, prizing fealty above all else, and practicing a transactional politics of favors and deals that shows little regard for legal norms."—Jeet Heer
Donald Trump’s Government of Gangsters >
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-gravano-government-gangsters/
#DonaldTrump & the #Mafia #criminals #mob ##gangsters #Gambino #CrimeFamily #CharlesKushner #TaxEvasion #WitnessTampering #SexualOffenses #politics
The next US ambassador to France:
#Trump’s unruly behavior at the NY trial makes him a candidate for #jail time, as does his #felony #crime of falsifying business records: Over the past decade in #Manhattan, >⅓ of these convictions resulted in defendants spending time behind bars. Across NY State, the proportion is even higher — about 42% of those convictions led to jail or prison time.
#StochasticTerrorism #WitnessTampering #WitnessIntimidation #JuryTampering #JuryIntimidation #criminal #law
Despite #Trump’s political status, the judge in his #criminal NY #FalsifiedBusinessRecords #ElectionInterference case has ample grounds to jail him, a NYT examination of dozens of similar cases shows.
#StochasticTerrorism #WitnessTampering #WitnessIntimidation #JuryTampering #JuryIntimidation #law #GiftArticle
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/nyregion/donald-trump-merchan-sentencing-jail.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
City Hall Official Charged With #WitnessTampering in Adams Inquiry
Mohamed Bahi, who worked in Mayor #EricAdams’ office of community affairs, was accused of instructing witnesses to lie to federal authorities.
#law #corruption
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/nyregion/mohamed-bahi-arrested-adams.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
3 fmr #Memphis, TN #police officers were found #guilty Thurs of federal #WitnessTampering in the #violent #beating of #TyreNichols, a 29-yr-old #Black man who died 3 days after his encounter w/police [from the severe injuries they inflicted]
ALL of the #cops were acquitted of the most serious charge—violating Nichols’s #CivilRights by causing his death. One cop, Demetrius Haley, was convicted on a lesser charge of violating Nichols’s civil rights by causing #BodilyInjury.