And now, the corruption.
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My god. Guy gets convicted of using his employees payroll tax money for personal use. Gets 18mo sentence plus he has to pay restitution of 4.4MM.
His mother went to one of those ‘meet the president for $1M’ dinners and three weeks later he gets pardoned.
Just in time to not pay the restitution
@jon-nyc said in And now, the corruption.:
My god. Guy gets convicted of using his employees payroll tax money for personal use. Gets 18mo sentence plus he has to pay restitution of 4.4MM.
His mother went to one of those ‘meet the president for $1M’ dinners and three weeks later he gets pardoned.
And another pardon - this time a couple:
In June 2022, they were accused of falsifying documents to defraud Atlanta banks out of more than $30 million through fraudulent loans. They also hid millions of dollars from the IRS that they earned from their show “Chrisley Knows Best,” a federal jury found. Back in February, their attorney told NBC that Trump was “seriously” considering pardoning the Chrisleys.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/trump-pardons-todd-julie-tax-evasion-bank-fraud-1236411269/
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@jon-nyc said in And now, the corruption.:
Oh, and yeah. That’s Trump’s body.
Dude, it’s a drawing. It’s not any more realistic than an animation cell.
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And as a reminder, the other choice would have been bought off with a $500 Ernest & Gallo Gift Card.
The Brad
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And as a reminder, the other choice would have been bought off with a $500 Ernest & Gallo Gift Card.
@LuFins-Dad said in And now, the corruption.:
And as a reminder, the other choice would have been bought off with a $500 Ernest & Gallo Gift Card.
What or who is this "other choice" and what made you believe that this "other choice" would have been bought off with a $500 Ernest & Gallo Gift Card?
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And as a reminder, the other choice would have been bought off with a $500 Ernest & Gallo Gift Card.
@LuFins-Dad said in And now, the corruption.:
And as a reminder, the other choice would have been bought off with a $500 Ernest & Gallo Gift Card.
Speaking quite seriously, there is no precedent in all of our history of corruption on this scale. I really think you need to go to post soviet Russia or post-colonial Africa to see analogs. And even those might require adjusting for GDP.
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Seems legit.
WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump’s administration last month awarded a contract worth up to $1.2 billion to build and operate what it says will become the nation’s largest immigration detention complex, it didn’t turn to a large government contractor or even a firm that specializes in private prisons.
Instead, it handed the project on a military base to Acquisition Logistics LLC, a small business that has no listed experience running a correction facility and had never won a federal contract worth more than $16 million. The company also lacks a functioning website and lists as its address a modest home in suburban Virginia owned by a 77-year-old retired Navy flight officer.
