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Botany's JournalAnother brutally hard work day for Donald Trump
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/986711015630036992When does this all stop? This is madness.
Michael Cohens uncle Levines social club was the HQ of Russian organized crime in the U.S.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/good-grief-cohens-gets-mobbier-the-closer-i-lookGood Grief. Cohen’s World Gets Mobbier The Closer I Look
In today’s podcast, we look into the background of Michael Cohen. TPM first reported last year that Cohen was actually a childhood friend of Felix Sater, whose father was himself a reputed capo in the Mogilevich organized crime syndicate, said to be Russia’s largest and most dangerous. Filling out this picture of how Cohen fell into this milieu we’ve always been focused on the fact that Cohen’s uncle, Morton Levine, owned and ran a Brooklyn social club, El Caribe, which was a well-known meeting spot for members of Italian and Russian organized crime families in the 1970s and 1980s. (Levine, a medical doctor has never been charged with a crime.) But now it turns out there’s a bit more to this story.
I came across this in a January AP article about Boris Nayfeld, one-time organized crime boss in Brooklyn who now wants to go home to Russia to start a new life. Nayfeld is 70 and he just finished his latest prison sentence. The whole story is a bit low energy and a sad sack in a nonetheless menacing and predatory way.
According to published reports, in the 70s and early 80s, the boss of the Russian mob in New York (and for practical purposes the whole U.S) was a man named Evsei Agron. Things ended badly for Agron when was gunned down in a mob hit in 1985. After Agron was assassinated, his organization was taken over by under-boss Marat Balagula. Authorities believed Balagula was behind Agron’s killing. But he was never charged with the crime. Balagula ran things until 1991 when he was convicted of gasoline bootlegging. Nayfeld had been the bodyguard and enforcer for both Agron and Balagula, one would say more successfully in the latter case than the former. He took over the organization when Balagula went to prison.
Trump is scared shitless ..... morning tweet
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/986576502358671361NO COLLUSION except for Trump's lawyer trip to Prague to meet w/
a pay off Russians for hacking and rigging our elections.
McClatchy: Mueller has evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016, confirming part of dossier
McClatchy: Mueller has evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016, confirming part of dossier
But investigators have traced evidence that Cohen entered the Czech Republic through Germany, apparently during August or early September of 2016 as the ex-spy reported, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is confidential. He wouldn’t have needed a passport for such a trip, because both countries are in the so-called Schengen Area in which 26 nations operate with open borders. The disclosure still left a puzzle: The sources did not say whether Cohen took a commercial flight or private jet to Europe, and gave no explanation as to why no record of such a trip has surfaced.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article208870264.html#storylink=cpy
Cohen really isn't a lawyer .... today is gonna be real bad for him
On Friday, the 13th of April 2018, Mr Cohen’s attorney went to court to argue for a “temporary restraining order” (TRO) to keep the Feds from reviewing the material collected during the FBI raid on the basis that much of what the FBI has, deals with the issue of attorney-client privilege.
The Southern District Court of New York prosecutors were ready with their argument that Michael Cohen hasn’t been practicing law in ages but he has been acting more like a consigliere.
Whereupon, U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood asked Mr. Cohen’s attorney to name one of his clients which he couldn’t do. Then Judge Wood ordered that the attorney return with his client, Michael Cohen in tow, ready to answer some questions on the 16th of April 2018.
https://grondamorin.com/2018/04/16/guess-whos-storming-into-to-court-to-watch-michael-cohen-on-16th-of-april/
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210500106
The feds attached the proper statute to each search warrant. 
Trump is now gonna take a 1 week golf vacation @ Merde Lago
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/trump-palm-beach-mid-afternoon-arrival-likely-begin-controversial-visit-mar-lago/N3W2Yklh9k0epZ7Z5NFnEK/After a short round-table discussion on tax reform in Miami, Air Force One is expected to arrive at Palm Beach International Airport at about 3 p.m. for what is expected to be a 4-day visit.
Although Federal Aviation Administration notices indicate the president will leave on Thursday, traffic alerts from the Town of Palm Beach indicate he may stay until Sunday.
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And please don't tell me Trump needs to meet w/Japan's Prime Minster Abe there because the
White House is already set up for such visits. I wonder how much this little grift will cost America?
My own 2 cents on James Comey
Fuck you asshole. You said you based your actions as per who you
thought was going to win the election. Your actions should have been based
on the rule of law and not who you thought was going to win an election.
BTW HRC broke no laws but Donald Trump did and you Mr. Comey, weighed
in on HRC but then you didn't say shit about Trump and Russia which you
were fully aware of at that time.
Just like Sandra Day O'Conner will always have her vote to make w bush
POTUS in bush v Gore you Mr. Comey will always have the stain on your
being because of what YOU DID to HRC, our country, and the world.
If Trump fires Rob Rosenstein can Mueller than unseal the sealed indictments I have heard about?
From one month ago but worth the read; Donald Trump: A cornered and dangerous rat
Writes Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times:
<The Russian interference itself is beyond doubt. The Mueller investigation has led to two guilty pleas and two indictments so far, and it must continue. Frankly, it’s suspicious that Trump is throwing up so much dust and trying so hard to delegitimize the investigation.>
He is not acting innocent.
Trump is acting guilty. Investigators know that a person who screams the loudest to proclaim he’s innocent is most often the guilty one.
Trump is a cornered animal and such animals are also often the most crazed.
Approach with caution.
https://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/70893
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