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Gregg wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 6:45 pm Joe Namath, JJ Walker, and law firms for every class action ever.

Which begs the question, as far as I know, the Auto industry totally quit using asbestos in 1977. I would assume every other one must have around the same time. So just how many people are there with Mesothelioma who didn't actually die?

Gregg wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 5:30 pm

Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 4:27 pm

Gregg wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 7:18 pm everything the NYAG has will be entered into the record for every prosecutor and class action lawyer in America to dig through like a pile of asbestos ridden hernia patches with Roundup Weed killer and some tax evasion, bank fraud and who knows what else.

I watch a lot of late night TV.

Gregg wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 6:45 pm Joe Namath, JJ Walker, and law firms for every class action ever.

Which begs the question, as far as I know, the Auto industry totally quit using asbestos in 1977. I would assume every other one must have around the same time. So just how many people are there with Mesothelioma who didn't actually die?

Azastan wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:30 pm

Gregg wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 6:45 pm Joe Namath, JJ Walker, and law firms for every class action ever.

Which begs the question, as far as I know, the Auto industry totally quit using asbestos in 1977. I would assume every other one must have around the same time. So just how many people are there with Mesothelioma who didn't actually die?

There are Post Offices all around the United States which have asbestos tiles for flooring. They have all been carefully sealed, and they are marked as containing asbestos fibres. If repairs need to be made to those tiles, outside expert help is called in, as the P.O.'s own maintenance crews are not certified to work on, or with, asbestos.

Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 3:00 am

My house had/has asbestos siding when we bought it. We have vinyl siding now, though IIRC (it's been a few years) I think they just put the vinyl over the asbestos, because I don't recall there being a big fuss over removing the asbestos. I think i would have noticed that because I remember our buyer's realtor telling us that the only danger from it would be if it were broken or "disturbed". Otherwise, all the fibers were bonded into the hard boards that make up the siding slats.

The Trump Organization and former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg on Tuesday asked a judge to dismiss the Manhattan district attorney's criminal fraud and tax evasion charges against them, claiming they've been targeted because of politics.

Weisselberg's lawyers claimed the tax charges are related to federal income tax returns, and are therefore not in the Manhattan district attorney's jurisdiction. They also wrote that the charges against Weisselberg should be tossed because he received immunity against certain federal charges when he testified to a federal grand jury investigating former Trump attorney Michael Cohen.

They argued that Cohen's later cooperation in the Manhattan case was in part due to Cohen having a "vendetta" against Weisselberg for his role in Cohen's conviction.

Weisselberg's attorneys are also asking the judge in the case to suppress evidence from two Manhattan district attorney investigators who they say "struck up small talk" with Weisselberg while he was in custody, arguing the investigators essentially tricked him into divulging information he might otherwise not have with a lawyer present.

The judge will rule on the motions to dismiss after prosecutors file their response.

Weisselberg's attorneys are also asking the judge in the case to suppress evidence from two Manhattan district attorney investigators who they say "struck up small talk" with Weisselberg while he was in custody, arguing the investigators essentially tricked him into divulging information he might otherwise not have with a lawyer present.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 5:50 am

Weisselberg's attorneys are also asking the judge in the case to suppress evidence from two Manhattan district attorney investigators who they say "struck up small talk" with Weisselberg while he was in custody, arguing the investigators essentially tricked him into divulging information he might otherwise not have with a lawyer present.

He forgot to shut the f%*k up?

Sam the Centipede wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 7:59 am

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 5:50 am

Weisselberg's attorneys are also asking the judge in the case to suppress evidence from two Manhattan district attorney investigators who they say "struck up small talk" with Weisselberg while he was in custody, arguing the investigators essentially tricked him into divulging information he might otherwise not have with a lawyer present.

He forgot to shut the f%*k up?

Srsly, law folk, is that a problem? I understand (in the sense of "I have seen it on tv") about reading the perp his rights, and there's a right to have an attorney present (isn't there?) but would the behavior Weasel's attorneys describe be always wrong, sometimes wrong, never wrong? Or, as I suspect, "it depends…"?

Manhattan DA’s 'doubts' about case against Trump lead two top prosecutors to resign

Two top prosecutors in the office of the Manhattan District Attorney have “abruptly” resigned, throwing the fraud case against Donald Trump into jeopardy.

The New York Times reports the new Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, “indicated” to the two prosecutors “that he had doubts about moving forward with a case against Mr. Trump."

The prosecutors have not presented the grand jury with any new evidence in the last month.

“Without Mr. Bragg’s commitment to move forward, the prosecutors late last month postponed a plan to question at least one witness before the grand jury,” the Times reveals. “They have not questioned any witnesses in front of the grand jury for more than a month, essentially pausing their investigation into whether Mr. Trump inflated the value of his assets to obtain favorable loan terms from banks.”

Harry Litman @harrylitman wrote: Mark Poemerantz, a very seasoned and respected pro, in particular brought in to the DA's office to lead the charge, and just can't see his walking away absent serious roadblocks put up by new DA Bragg. Something is really funky here.

Tristan Snell @TristanSnell wrote: Alvin Bragg reportedly took weeks to read memos on the Trump Org case, and wouldn't meet with Pomerantz and Dunne.

This isn't a disagreement. This feels purposeful.

So: what if Bragg is letting the investigation peter out because he got word from the Feds to stand down?

Top Trump Prosecutors Cited Stalled Investigation in Resignation Letters

When two high-ranking prosecutors leading a financial investigation into the Trump Organization abruptly quit last week, the reason seemed to be inaction on the case in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. Now, a response from the DA’s office to a public records request from The Daily Beast seems to confirm those suspicions.

The two prosecutors, Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz, resigned after an unnecessary, month-long pause in the team’s interactions with a special grand jury, The New York Times reported last week. The duo had grown frustrated that the newly elected DA—Alvin Bragg Jr.—wouldn’t read memos about the case for weeks at a time, and seemed to ditch plans to eventually indict former President Donald Trump himself, according to The Washington Post.

It turns out that, not only did Dunne and Pomerantz write resignation letters, they wrote so extensively about the slow-moving probe that the DA’s office would not turn over copies of their letters.

In response to a public records request under New York’s Freedom of Information Law, the DA’s office told The Daily Beast that the letters would reveal too much information.

Trump Is Guilty of ‘Numerous’ Felonies, Prosecutor Who Resigned Says
Mark F. Pomerantz, who had investigated the former president, left after the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, halted an effort to seek an indictment.

By William K. Rashbaum, Ben Protess and Jonah E. Bromwich
March 23, 2022 Updated 7:01 p.m. ET

One of the senior Manhattan prosecutors who investigated Donald J. Trump believed that the former president was “guilty of numerous felony violations” and that it was “a grave failure of justice” not to hold him accountable, according to a copy of his resignation letter.

The prosecutor, Mark F. Pomerantz, submitted his resignation last month after the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, abruptly stopped pursuing an indictment of Mr. Trump.

Mr. Pomerantz, 70, a prominent former federal prosecutor and white-collar defense lawyer who came out of retirement to work on the Trump investigation, resigned on the same day as Carey R. Dunne, another senior prosecutor leading the inquiry.

Mr. Pomerantz’s Feb. 23 letter, obtained by The New York Times, offers a personal account of his decision to resign and for the first time states explicitly his belief that the office could have convicted the former president. Mr. Bragg’s decision was “contrary to the public interest,” he wrote.





https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/nyre ... rantz.html

Long before its namesake became president, the Trump Organization calculated the value of rent-stabilized units at more than $49.5 million—more than 66 times higher than the $750,000 that an outside appraiser believed them to be worth, New York’s top prosecutor alleged.

New York Attorney General Letitia James’s (D) office made that allegation in an eye-popping footnote of an appellate brief seeking to uphold a judge’s order for former President Donald Trump and two of his adult children to sit for deposition in her longstanding tax probe. The civil investigation, which has been running in tandem with a criminal one, has been looking into whether the Trump Organization fraudulently valued the company’s assets for tax benefits.

“So far, the investigation has uncovered significant evidence potentially indicating that, for more than a decade, these financial statements relied on misleading asset valuations and other misrepresentations to secure economic benefits—including loans, insurance coverage, and tax deductions—on terms more favorable than the true facts warranted,” the appellate brief filed in state court begins.

The allegation about the rent-stabilized units reflects the significant time span of the investigation. It is based on the Trump Organization’s statements between the years 2010 and 2012.

“Serious Lapses in the Trump Organization’s Document Preservation”

In 2019, the attorney general’s civil investigation began with congressional testimony by Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen about alleged cooking of the books. Then-Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance (D) began his criminal investigation that same year. Years later, the worlds collided as James’s team started assisting Vance, who charged the Trump Organization and its former chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg last July.