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
#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.
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered #SeanCombs to remain in #jail until his #trial for #SexTrafficking & #racketeering #conspiracy, rejecting an appeal by the music mogul’s lawyers requesting that he be released on bail.
Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr. said at a hearing in Lower Manhattan that #Combs posed a risk of #WitnessTampering and was a #danger to the #safety of the community.
#criminal #law #SexualViolence #ViolenceAgainstWomen #SexualAssault #abuse #power
#SeanCombs Must Stay in #Jail Until Trial After Judge Rejects Appeal
The judge said #Combs posed a risk of #WitnessTampering & was a #danger to the community while awaiting his #SexTrafficking & #racketeering #conspiracy trial.
#criminal #law #SexualViolence #ViolenceAgainstWomen #SexualAssault #abuse #power
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/arts/music/sean-combs-diddy-bail-appeal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb&ngrp=mnp&pvid=6953752F-6235-4267-89DA-34FD1023DA22
Judge Mark S. Norris, who will make the final sentencing judgment, is also overseeing the trials of the remaining 3 officers: Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley & Justin Smith. They are charged w/ use of #ExcessiveForce, conspiracy to commit #WitnessTampering , #obstruction of #justice & deliberate #indifference to #TyreNichols’s #medical condition.
#SocialJustice #law #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #PoliceViolence #AbuseOfPower #SystemicRacism #Memphis
Once a jury is seated, prosecutors & defense lawyers will give their opening statements. The trial is expected to last ~3 wks.
2 of the officers involved in the beating — Desmond Mills Jr. & Emmitt Martin III — have pleaded #guilty to using #ExcessiveForce & a #WitnessTampering #conspiracy. As part of the plea agreements, the #DOJ recommended Martin face a sentence not to exceed 40 yrs in prison & Mills to face no more than 15 yrs.
#CivilRights #SocialJustice #law #BLM #PoliceViolence #HateCrime
#Trump is really angry that #ProPublica is publishing an investigative report exposing his apparent #bribery of potential #witnesses who could be called to testify against him in his many #criminal cases. He's threatening to sue them if they don't "#CeaseAndDesist" publishing the article, blathering on about #defamation, but the last thing he wants is to have the details of his #witnessTampering authenticated and memorialized in court. Another empty threat.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-sue-reporters-revealing-paying-witnesses-2668618028
Witness tampering charges are in the air for Trump... again Trump's criminality is out in the open and puts pressure on the justice system 😁
https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-criminal-cases-witnesses-financial-benefits
#politics #law #trump #witnessTampering #bribes #criminalJustice
"... (at least) nine witnesses in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, and a grant of shares and cash from Trump’s media company"
#witnessTampering
#organized Crime
#fraud
It's how #republicans do business #gop
https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-criminal-cases-witnesses-financial-benefits
BREAKING: #WitnessTAMPERING and #OBSTRUCTION by #TRUMP Through PAYOUTS?! | #ResistanceLive
Attempts to exert undue #influence on #witnesses have been a repeated theme of #Trump investigations & #criminal cases over the yrs.
Trump’s fmr campaign mgr & fmr campaign adviser were #convicted on #WitnessTampering charges in 2018 & 19. The adviser told a witness to “do a ‘Frank Pentangeli’”–a character in “The Godfather Part II” who lies to a Senate cmte investigating #OrganizedCrime. Trump later #pardoned both men….(He didn’t pardon a co-defendant of the campaign manager who had cooperated)
…#Trump’s attorney, David Warrington, sent #ProPublica a cease-&-desist letter demanding this article not be published. The letter warned that if the outlet & its reporters “continue their reckless campaign of defamation, President Trump will evaluate all legal remedies.”
#FreePress #FirstAmendment #democracy #law #criminal #WitnessTampering #USpol #NationalSecurity #VoteBlue #BidenHarris2024
To prove #WitnessTampering, prosecutors would need to show that perks or punishments were intended to #influence #testimony.
White-collar defense #lawyers say the situation #Trump finds himself in—…defendant & boss of many of the …primary #witnesses to his alleged #crimes —is not uncommon. Their standard advice is not to provide any unusual benefits or penalties to such employees. Ideally, decisions about employees slated to give #evidence should be made by an independent body….
These pay increases & other benefits often came at delicate moments in the #legal proceedings against #Trump. One aide who was given a plum position on the board of Trump’s social media company, for example, got the seat after he was subpoenaed but before he testified. 👀
Significant changes to a staffer’s work situation, such as bonuses, pay raises, firings or promotions, can be #evidence of a #crime if they come outside the normal course of business.
