{"id":14490,"date":"2022-12-06T18:04:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T02:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14490"},"modified":"2022-12-06T18:17:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T02:17:35","slug":"trump-org-guilty-on-17-counts-of-fraud-bradcast-1262022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14490","title":{"rendered":"TRUMP ORG GUILTY ON 17 COUNTS OF FRAUD: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 12\/6\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_TrumpOrganization_120622.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Let&#8217;s enjoy the good news on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> &#8212; and we&#8217;ve got quite a bit of it &#8212; because things may or may not be as bright tomorrow, as returns come in from the U.S. Senate runoff in <b>Georgia<\/b> and the corrupt rightwing <b>U.S. Supreme Court<\/b> hears <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-supreme-court-north-carolina-legislature-50f99679939b5d69d321858066a94639\">a case<\/a> they may use to undermine American democracy as we have known it for more than 200 years. [<i>Audio link to full show follow this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>But, for tonight, at least, there is a whole bunch of good news regarding a whole bunch of bad news for our disgraced former President&#8230;which is great news for everyone else&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <b>New York<\/b> jury in Manhattan took little more than one day to find the <b>Trump Organization<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-new-york-manhattan-donald-trump-government-and-politics-86177401a887c85ab50d8b78eb1ed397\">guilty of all criminal state tax fraud charges<\/a> brought against it &#8212; 17 counts in all. That follows its longtime Chief Financial Officer, <b>Allen Weisselberg<\/b>&#8216;s guilty plea on 15 counts of fraud. He&#8217;s set to receive about five months in prison after his plea and agreement to testify against the company. A company, however, can&#8217;t be sentenced to prison, so a fine will be levied instead. But the Manhattan D.A.&#8217;s office <i>may<\/i> have other plans for criminal charges against <b>Donald Trump<\/b>, which we discuss as well today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Meanwhile, Trump is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/fire-trump-denies-writing-wrote-constitution-rcna60282\">claiming that he didn&#8217;t say what everybody saw him say<\/a>, when he called for the &#8220;termination&#8221; of the <b>U.S. Constitution<\/b> over the weekend. It was, of course, part of his continuing effort to pretend the 2020 Presidential election that he lost was actually stolen from him. More disturbing, however, is the lack of elected Republican officials who, while pretending to be &#8220;Constitutional conservatives&#8221;, are unable to say whether Trump&#8217;s comments disqualify him from becoming President again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>But, back to brighter news as we continue to try and keep track of accountability for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensforethics.org\/reports-investigations\/crew-reports\/crime-number-56-president-trumps-perjury-in-a-georgia-federal-court\/\">at least 56 known criminal violations<\/a> of law by the former President since he first ran for office. (That doesn&#8217;t include all of the <i>civil<\/i> violations, such as the $250 million lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General <b>Letitia James<\/b> against him, his company and his three oldest children on state tax fraud violations.) The Manhattan D.A.&#8217;s office of <b>Alvin Bragg<\/b>, which successfully prosecuted the criminal tax fraud cases against the Trump Organization, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/05\/nyregion\/alvin-bragg-trump-investigation.html?unlocked_article_code=uFEIMFYbI3rmzSzPu0bt7Hjq7Z-rVsukQxIzHfYmIwZapGKrJqhO15TObulAYXMNQ3BK7flBW54a7J4T84pioHdMf9vFFe8P3UyYUke_Reak8foqfPoZxJQLm24PiV7xJL1kSoIOtYUOtHonOY4IjEhD\">made a new hire<\/a> that suggests the office may be eyeing new criminal charges against Trump himself this time. We &#8216;splain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Also on Tuesday, the Chair of the bipartisan <b>U.S. House Select Committee<\/b> investigating the January 6 insurrection and Trump&#8217;s many failed attempts to steal the 2020 election, said that the panel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/06\/politics\/january-6-committee-criminal-referrals\/index.html\"><i>will<\/i> be making criminal referrals<\/a> to the U.S. Dept. of Justice before year&#8217;s end.  That may or may not be bad news for Trump himself and many others in the MAGA Cinematic Universe. But it almost certainly ain&#8217;t good news for any of them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Also<\/i> also on Tuesday, it is being reported that <b>Jack Smith<\/b> &#8212; newly tapped by Attorney General Merrick Garland as Special Counsel overseeing the DoJ&#8217;s federal criminal probes into January 6, the documents stolen by Trump from the White House, and any other matters related to either of those cases &#8212; has issued his first subpoenas since taking his new position. Officials in <b>Wisconsin<\/b>, <b>Michigan<\/b> and <b>Arizona<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3Y44qrJ\">according to <i>Washington Post<\/i><\/a>, as well as in <b>Pennsylvania<\/b>, as <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wisconsin-arizona-donald-trump-0509a736c89010c0247a7b1428352689\">confirmed by AP<\/a>, have all recently received demands from Smith for &#8220;any and all communications with Trump, his campaign, and a long list of aides and allies.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a very long rest-of-his-life for Donald Trump &#8212; unless he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2006\/jul\/06\/usnews.enron\">pulls a Ken Lay<\/a> first. Of course, we wish him nothing but the best.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>And, finally, we finish up today with Desi Doyen and <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14489\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, including news on the electric grid attack in <b>North Carolina<\/b>; <b>Russia<\/b> targeting energy infrastructure in <b>Ukraine<\/b> (a war crime); and <b>EV sales<\/b> now surging in U.S. and across the globe&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-TrumpOrgGuilty-TrumpConstitutionGOP-AlvinBraggHireNY-JackSmithSubpoenas-WI-MI-AZ-PA_120622.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; 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