Three guesses whose money he was launderin'?

[kpete]

To sum up, Michael Cohen, who has three "clients"...

1) Elliott Broidy - former RNC finance chair
2) Sean Hannity - Fox News anchor
3) Donald Trump - President

...is now "likely to be indicted" for money launderin' and bank fraud. Three guesses whose money he was launderin'?

In which the federal judge in the Stormy Daniels lawsuit says Michael Cohen is likely to be indicted in NY

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[jberryhill]

1. In addition to laundering money from his other dealings

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. This is a NY case, right? No pardons?

[jberryhill]

6. No

This is a federal prosecution.

You may find this a good read, if you have the time:

https://www.justice.gov/usao/justice-101/federal-courts

If that one is maybe too dense, I can find other ones.

The federal court system, which is the one that deals with federal crimes (among a bunch of other things), has US District Courts. Some states only have one of them, and some states have more than one of them. So while the US District Court for the District of Arizona is a single court (which several conveniently located facilities known as "divisions" ) , there are several district courts in a more populous state, like New York.

The festivities in New York are taking place in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. That is the trial-level federal court that includes Manhattan. As you may guess, it is one of the most sophisticated courts in the country when it comes to financial crimes, racketeering, etc.. So, along with each US District Court, there is also the corresponding office of the United States Attorney General. The prosecution in this case is the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York or, more conveniently, the USAO-SDNY.

It is a federal prosecution under federal law taking place in a federal court by a federal prosecutor. Or, rather, it WILL become one when an indictment is eventually filed, partly on the basis of the evidence that is currently being sorted out.

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. Pardonable then.

Thanks for the info.

Funny thing is we never used to have to distinguish as lay persons because there wasnt a traitor in the WH Hell bent on pardoning criminals.

[jberryhill]

8. Yes, but

We don't know what might sort out in the mix between the USAO-SDNY and the NY AG.

[Eliot Rosewater]

10. Which brings me back to what i said a while ago that I heard from Rachel about firing someone

related to this, rump firing someone.

No he cant fire a NY AG , I knew that and know that, but he could reassign or fire someone who could have an impact on this case.

right?

[kimbutgar]

2. Wouldn't it be something if the money laundered by Hannity was him buying those homes and

Apartments? Killing 3 birds with one stone would be delish.

And the rethug party is also complicit!!!

[unblock]

4. all of the above?

well hannity is probably just a recipient of bribes, essentially. on the payroll to shill for republicans and donnie.

but putin's money is all over both donnie and the republican party.

[NCTraveler]

5. His own.

Cohen has a decades long history with Ukrainians and others.

[Initech]

9. "If we get caught money laundering, we're not going to white collar resort prison!"

Hannity, you are going to the other place!

[Fullduplexxx]

11. Did i hallucinate this? I heard that cohen listed 3 clients trump; the trump corp and hannity

Broidy was not listed

[rurallib]

19. didn't hallucinate - Avenatti said this the other day

so that raises our chances of guessing who Cohen was laundering for

[EffieBlack]

12. It definitely wasn't Trump - Trump didn't have enough money to launder

He was helping Trump launder money for other people.

[dameatball]

16. Good point. Otherwise why need Russians??

[dameatball]

17. In other words, if you don't need money why do it to begin with?

[mopinko]

13. broidy is not one of his clients. avenatti pointed out that, actually, broidy was not

listed as one of his clients.

leading to the conclusion that it was not broidy makin that payoff....

[More_Cowbell]

14. Right, he was not named in court like the others were.

Avenatti says it looks like the three clients were: Trump, the Trump Corporation, and Hannity

[dameatball]

15. I don't know if resolving this is good or bad prior to November, But I doubt it can be.

Just seems way too far reaching and widespread.

[Honeycombe8]

18. The three clients that were identified in court were: 1-Trump Org; 2-Trump; 3-Hannity.

Not Broidy.

Heard that on MSNBC last night or today. The three identified in court didn't include Broidy. Not sure what that means, and which version is correct.

[calimary]

21. Whoa...

[dreamland]

20. Maybe Broidy wasn't a client this past year

The judge asked for clients this past year, maybe he was a client in previous years. He was not asked to divulge all his clients from past five years.

[Izzy Blue]

22. WSJ

The Journal said that the payment was negotiated late last year and that the first installment was due on December 1.

Now, what’s also interesting about Broidy is that he is all tied up in the George Nader shenanigans that Mueller is going after big time...