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Now we go live to Rudy Guliani:

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Ms. Bechard is deeply distressed that someone has revealed that she allowed a gelatinous, half-amphibian half-man thing caterpillar across the bedroom on its belly like a walrus, bellowing like a dyin

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If it's revealed he lied I'm as positive about anything that Brisket Goth wouldn't hesitate even a second to call him a pants on fire doo doo head. But what's fascinating here is your sudden into

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1 minute ago, Purgatory County said:

If Melania does have a kidney infection, it's probably from genital warts, the clap and Ukranian piss herpes.

This would explain the confiscation of doctor files and the megalomaniacal self authored bills of health.

He went in Raw on a porn star.  Of course he passed that on to her.

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24 minutes ago, Queen Bitch said:

One of y'all read the new Ronan Farrow New Yorker article and Cliff Notes it here. 

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/missing-files-motivated-the-leak-of-michael-cohens-financial-records

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A law-enforcement official released the documents after finding that additional suspicious transactions did not appear in a government database.

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Last week, several news outlets obtained financial records showing that Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal attorney, had used a shell company to receive payments from various firms with business before the Trump Administration. In the days since, there has been much speculation about who leaked the confidential documents, and the Treasury Department’s inspector general has launched a probe to find the source. That source, a law-enforcement official, is speaking publicly for the first time, to The New Yorker, to explain the motivation: the official had grown alarmed after being unable to find two important reports on Cohen’s financial activity in a government database. The official, worried that the information was being withheld from law enforcement, released the remaining documents.

The payments to Cohen that have emerged in the past week come primarily from a single document, a “suspicious-activity report” filed by First Republic Bank, where Cohen’s shell company, Essential Consultants, L.L.C., maintained an account. The document detailed sums in the hundreds of thousands of dollars paid to Cohen by the pharmaceutical company Novartis, the telecommunications giant A.T. & T., and an investment firm with ties to the Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.

The report also refers to two previous suspicious-activity reports, or sars, that the bank had filed, which documented even larger flows of questionable money into Cohen’s account. Those two reports detail more than three million dollars in additional transactions—triple the amount in the report released last week. Which individuals or corporations were involved remains a mystery. But, according to the official who leaked the report, these sars were absent from the database maintained by the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or fincen. The official, who has spent a career in law enforcement, told me, “I have never seen something pulled off the system. . . . That system is a safeguard for the bank. It’s a stockpile of information. When something’s not there that should be, I immediately became concerned.” The official added, “That’s why I came forward.”

 

 

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9 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

Wow. That could be a real smoking gun and not just snarky infotainment fodder.

Also, kudos to Ronan Farrow, who is apparently the only investigative journalist left that actually investigates stories instead of re-tweeting what someone said in a press release and providing reaction comments.

Kind of off topic, but why doesn't Seth Abramson just start a fucking blog or something.  He uses Twitter in long form.  It's absurd.  I'm done with you when I see this on Twitter:

/191  This is really suspicious.

/190  Seriously, guys, this does not look good for Trump.

/189  This is seriously fishy, guys.

Somebody give that motherfucker a place to write a column.

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In the middle of reading the New Yorker article, but I just want to, yet again, tell every Trump voter and proud centrist who couldn't vote for Hillary to go shove a rusty piece of rebar up their urethras. This goes well beyond a modern Watergate, there is just corruption everywhere related to President Fat Fuck.

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5 minutes ago, Chooky said:

Kind of off topic, but why doesn't Seth Abramson just start a fucking blog or something.  He uses Twitter in long form.  It's absurd.  I'm done with you when I see this on Twitter:

/191  This is really suspicious.

/190  Seriously, guys, this does not look good for Trump.

/189  This is seriously fishy, guys.

Somebody give that motherfucker a place to write a column.

He's a digital media professor experimenting with a format and method of outreach. 

It sucks, but it's worth slogging through it for the information. Seth is a great info aggregator and I find his commentary to be reliable and sound, though whiny and douchey at times. Click on one of the links and then click to view it as a thread. He's long-winded, but lots of it is relevant. 

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3 minutes ago, GSU&UT said:

In the middle of reading the New Yorker article, but I just want to, yet again, tell every Trump voter and proud centrist who couldn't vote for Hillary to go shove a rusty piece of rebar up their urethras. This goes well beyond a modern Watergate, there is just corruption everywhere related to President Fat Fuck.

I just finished it. Everyone needs to read it. Click through and give Ronan the clicks, dude has been earning it. 

Sounds like there is no legal route to leak these, so leaker is fucked if they catch him, which sucks. If these Suspicious Activity Reports are being removed from the database and/or restricted so law enforcement can't see them, the leaker deserves a fucking medal and a parade. 

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1 hour ago, Pods said:

I just finished it. Everyone needs to read it. Click through and give Ronan the clicks, dude has been earning it. 

Sounds like there is no legal route to leak these, so leaker is fucked if they catch him, which sucks. If these Suspicious Activity Reports are being removed from the database and/or restricted so law enforcement can't see them, the leaker deserves a fucking medal and a parade. 

Yep.  So who would be able to remove them from the database?  I didn't catch that part.

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6 minutes ago, Pods said:

I just finished it. Everyone needs to read it. Click through and give Ronan the clicks, dude has been earning it. 

Sounds like there is no legal route to leak these, so leaker is fucked if they catch him, which sucks. If these Suspicious Activity Reports are being removed from the database and/or restricted so law enforcement can't see them, the leaker deserves a fucking medal and a parade. 

Yup, leaking these carries significant penalties,

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According to fincen, disclosing a sar is a federal offense, carrying penalties including fines of up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for up to five years.

 

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5 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Yep.  So who would be able to remove them from the database?  I didn't catch that part.

I don't think anyone even knows. They aren't supposed to be removed under any circumstances. Someone really damn high up.

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7 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

Would the bank itself still have those SARS? 

I think there are other copies in existence. These are just not reposited in the database they are supposed to be in for regulators and law enforcement. The banks that reported them should still have copies, but Mueller and other investigators wouldn't know about them without this whistleblower. 

 

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If I'm reading this right, this is a big deal because it puts the bank that reported it on the hook. Or am I getting that wrong?

I don't think so. Sounds like they did their jobs and reported it. If they kept copies, I think they're clear. 

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The bank is fine as long as them submitted them, which is very likely.  Someone has seen the report that was submitted or saw it in the database at some point.  The leaker wouldn't have known it was missing otherwise.

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5 minutes ago, kevwun said:

The bank is fine as long as them submitted them, which is very likely.  Someone has seen the report that was submitted or saw it in the database at some point.  The leaker wouldn't have known it was missing otherwise.

The article said the 3rd sar mentioned the first 2.

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4 minutes ago, kevwun said:

I hope for his sake he somehow confirmed that Mueller didn't have them pulled or he just did his own version of Pickett's Charge.

Yeah, I must be missing something because I don't get his rationale.  If the 3rd report is still there, and it mentions the other two, he didn't need to leak it.  He could just leak that two SARS are missing.  If he was just worried about this one disappearing, he could have saved it and released it if it were ever removed. 

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I speculated some time back that somebody was feeding Avenatti this info.  I'll speculate a possibility that Mueller wanted to put a stop to Avenatti's illegal use of FINCEN info, and somebody in that crowd freaked when things disappeared on them.

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Yeah without knowing for sure that there was no legitimate reason that they were pulled, it is a dumb risk.  Which means he's either an idiot or in a position to know that they were deleted.

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8 minutes ago, kevwun said:

Yeah without knowing for sure that there was no legitimate reason that they were pulled, it is a dumb risk.  Which means he's either an idiot or in a position to know that they were deleted.

The article gives the sense that this leaker really knew that something was afoul. He/She may have also just been wanting to inform the public of just how bad things are regardless of whether Mueller knows or not.

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11 minutes ago, GSU&UT said:

The article gives the sense that this leaker really knew that something was afoul. He/She may have also just been wanting to inform the public of just how bad things are regardless of whether Mueller knows or not.

A lot of people (maybe everybody) create their own facts because of prejudices.

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1 minute ago, BrickHorn said:

You’re projecting, Tahoe.  Not everyone is a self-deluded moron.

I think he's right in this instance.  I caught myself doing it the other day, refusing to look at a thread in current events because I assumed it was about southerners celebrating the legacy of lynching, instead of honoring the memories of those that were lynched.  That was 100% me making assumptions and creating facts about what was happening somewhere because of my prejudice against people in Alabama.

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1 hour ago, TahoeHorn said:

Somebody needs to go to jail, especially if the SAR was removed from the FINCEN database when it should not have been.  If it was removed properly the leaker should be in trouble.

Yes, let's focus on this travesty of justice.  DO SOMETHING!!!

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1 hour ago, Pods said:

Sounds like there is no legal route to leak these, so leaker is fucked if they catch him, which sucks. If these Suspicious Activity Reports are being removed from the database and/or restricted so law enforcement can't see them, the leaker deserves a fucking medal and a parade. 

Well, yeah.  Anonymous Leaker is basically a patriot.  We could use more of those.

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39 minutes ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

I think he's right in this instance.  I caught myself doing it the other day, refusing to look at a thread in current events because I assumed it was about southerners celebrating the legacy of lynching, instead of honoring the memories of those that were lynched.  That was 100% me making assumptions and creating facts about what was happening somewhere because of my prejudice against people in Alabama.

Yeah, but then you read the thread, saw that you were wrong, admitted it to yourself and are here publicly talking about it. That's what normal people do.

Tahoe doesn't do those things and is projecting his behavior onto others. 

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