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Freeloading Rusty

Freeloading Rusty

Here comes Rover, sniffin’ at your ass
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Law firm demands $102G from Jared Kushner’s real estate company, claiming unpaid bills
President Trump’s son-in-law’s real estate company has a reputation of siccing lawyers on tenants who are late with the rent — but it doesn’t seem to pay its own bills on time.

A law firm that represented Jared Kushner’s real estate company in dozens of eviction and housing court cases is now suing the company, saying it is owed more than $100,000 for legal work from two years ago.

The law team Cornicello, Tendler & Baumel-Cornicello filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court on Dec. 7 against Kushner Cos. and 19 of its subsidiaries that own or manage properties. Cornicello seeks $102,000 for work it did between December 2014 and May 31, 2015.

In 2014 and 2015, Cornicello represented Kushner properties in at least 32 landlord-tenant cases, mostly involving apartments in the East Village, records show.
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Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner are sued over financial disclosures
First daughter and presidential adviser Ivanka Trump and her husband and fellow White House adviser Jared Kushner were hit with a lawsuit Sunday alleging illegal omissions on their public financial disclosure forms.

Washington lawyer Jeffrey Lovitky contends that Trump and Kushner failed to identify the assets owned by 30 investment funds the couple had stakes in. The complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Washington also claims the couple should have declared the value of and income they derived from two investment vehicles, but did not.


The suit notes that in a half dozen instances Kushner's report indicates that more detailed information is not being provided because a "pre-existing confidentiality agreement" precludes disclosure.

"The [Ethics in Government Act] does not allow a reporting individual to refuse to disclose the underlying assets of an investment vehicle, on the basis that such disclosure would violate a pre-existing confidentiality agreement. Nor does the EIGA allow a reporting individual to refuse to disclose the amount of income derived from any underlying asset of an investment vehicle, on the basis that such disclosure would violate a pre-existing confidentiality agreement," the suit contends.

A White House spokesman said Monday that the lawsuit lacks merit and the disclosures meet all legal requirements.

"This suit is frivolous. Mr. Kushner’s 278e was closely reviewed by the nonpartisan Office of Government Ethics, which certified his compliance with federal law," the spokesman said. "Mr. Kushner and his representatives also maintain ongoing communications with the Office of Government Ethics to ensure his disclosures remain in compliance."

Guidance from OGE does appear to permit more limited disclosures in some circumstances involving confidentiality commitments entered into prior to government service.

"In general, an agency may certify a report if the agency is satisfied that the filer is unable to disclose the information publicly due to a preexisting confidentiality agreement and that the potential for conflicts has been addressed," a "frequently asked questions" section on the OGE website says.
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Freeloading Rusty

Freeloading Rusty

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Twitter suspends far-right British figure retweeted by Trump
A far-right British activist who gained prominence after President Trumpretweeted her anti-Muslim tweets in November had her Twitter account suspended on Monday as part of the social network’s effort to crack down on hate speech.

Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of far-right British group Britain First, saw her account suspended as part of a Twitter-wide crackdown on hate gorups.
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Truck Party

Truck Party

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ConorMcGregorsBeard said:
When the UN throws out the dictators I'll give them a little more merit.
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I think it was around ten years ago that the UN had Sudan, then committing a genocide in their country, on the human rights council. They're one of the most useless & corrupt organizations in the world
 
Freeloading Rusty

Freeloading Rusty

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Trump Judicial Nominee Drops Out After Embarrassing Hearing
President Donald Trump’s judicial nominee Matthew Petersen has withdrawn his name from consideration after a video went viral of him failing to answer basic questions about law in his confirmation hearing.

“It happened,” an aide to a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee told HuffPost on Monday.

The White House later confirmed the news. “Mr. Petersen has withdrawn his nomination and the President has accepted,” a White House official told HuffPost.

In his letter to the president, Petersen said he’s withdrawing because he doesn’t want to be “a distraction” to the administration.

“I had hoped that my nearly two decades of public service might carry more weight than my two worst minutes on television,” he said. “However, I am no stranger to political realities, and I do not wish to be a continued distraction from the important work of your Administration and the Senate.”

Requests for comment from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, also were not returned. A request for comment from Petersen was not immediately returned.


Trump nominated Petersen, who is currently a member of the Federal Election Commission, to be a lifetime judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. But Petersen’s lack of qualifications were painfully on display last week as Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) asked him about his courtroom experience.

KENNEDY: Have you ever tried a jury trial?

PETERSEN: I have not.

KENNEDY: Civil?

PETERSEN: No.

KENNEDY: Criminal?

PETERSEN: No.

KENNEDY: Bench?

PETERSEN: No.

KENNEDY: State or federal court?

PETERSEN: I have not.

Peterson also could not explain basic legal terms, when pressed by Kennedy.

KENNEDY: As a trial judge, you’re obviously going to have witnesses. Can you tell me what the Daubert standard is?

PETERSEN: Sen. Kennedy, I don’t have that readily at my disposal but I would be happy to take a closer look at that. That is not something I’ve had to contend with.

KENNEDY: Do you know what a motion in limine is?

PETERSEN: Yes... I haven’t, I’m, again, my background is not in litigation as when I was replying to Chairman (Chuck) Grassley (R-Iowa), I haven’t had to um, again, do a deep dive.

Petersen is Trump’s third district court nominee to get derailed over a lack of qualifications. Brett Talley, a 36-year-old lawyer who had never tried a case and earned a rare and unanimous “not qualified” rating by the American Bar Association, withdrew his nomination last week. Jeff Mateer, who had described transgender children as evidence of “Satan’s plan,” is not moving either.

These are embarrassing setbacks to Trump’s otherwise successful push to fill up federal courts with his lifetime judges. The Senate confirmed 12 of his circuit court judges this year, more than any president has gotten in their first year since those courts were created in 1891. That’s in addition to putting Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court and getting six district court nominees confirmed.

It doesn’t sound like the president cares if a few of his nominees go down. Kennedy told local news affiliate WWL-TV on Monday that Trump called him Saturday to talk about Petersen and said he agreed with Kennedy’s criticisms that his nominee wasn’t qualified.

“He doesn’t interview these guys, he has his staff do it,” said the Louisiana Republican. “He said, ‘Kennedy, I think you’re right.’”

Kennedy said Trump has also told him that he’s counting on senators to reject his bad judicial picks.

“He has told me, ‘Kennedy, when some of my guys send someone who is not qualified, you do your job,’” the GOP senator said.
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Ted Williams' head

Ted Williams' head

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Truck Party said:
After reading this, I'm pretty sure we can add "The Russia Investigation is a politically motivated witchhunt" to the list of unthinkable, beyond the pale, republic destroying statements that Trump's been 100% right about The Co-Dependents of the "Independent" Counsel
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It's another closed chapter. This time next year CNN will be like "WE'VE FOUND NEW EVIDENCE TO SUGGEST COLLUSION!" What a nothing burger.

I always thought that shit was retarded and lazy journalism. If they really want to go after Trump, why not try to unearth some of his shady business dealings? Working with the mob? etc

They're trying to get him on some f-ggot bullshit, I don't get it.
 
Disciplined Galt

Disciplined Galt

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IGotAHugePeckah said:
It's another closed chapter. This time next year CNN will be like "WE'VE FOUND NEW EVIDENCE TO SUGGEST COLLUSION!" What a nothing burger.

I always thought that shit was retarded and lazy journalism. If they really want to go after Trump, why not try to unearth some of his shady business dealings? Working with the mob? etc

They're trying to get him on some f-ggot bullshit, I don't get it.
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I am positive Trump has shady shit but these so called leftists are more concerned with virtue signalling than getting shit done.
 
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Galt said:
I am positive Trump has shady shit but these so called leftists are more concerned with virtue signalling than getting shit done.
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These liberal fucks are like when an MMA fighter just keeps shooting for a takedown and pushing opponent up to fence... never gets the takedown but makes it a stinking fight that bores everyone... that's CNN now with the Russia bullshit

CNN wants to take down Trump but the best they can do is push him up against the cage and throw week knees at his thigh
 
Disciplined Galt

Disciplined Galt

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IGotAHugePeckah said:
These liberal fucks are like when an MMA fighter just keeps shooting for a takedown and pushing opponent up to fence... never gets the takedown but makes it a stinking fight that bores everyone... that's CNN now with the Russia bullshit

CNN wants to take down Trump but the best they can do is push him up against the cage and throw week knees at his thigh
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It's not even that. End
 
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