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Obama Hack Judge Rules Trump Must Deliver Private Financial Records

Obama hack judge rules trump must deliver private financial records

Obama Hack Judge Rules Trump Must Deliver Private Financial Records

Obama hack judge rules trump must deliver private financial records

By CCN: In a brazen but unsurprising move last week, Democrats issued a subpoena to accounting firm Mazars USA for eight years’ worth of Donald Trump’s financial records.

It should thus come as no surprise that Barack Obama judicial appointee U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta refused to grant Donald Trump’s request that the subpoena be quashed.

Dem’s Entire Platform Is to Destroy Trump

These are more layers to the partisan hackery of congressional Democrats who have abandoned any responsibility to the American people. Rather than work with Republicans to find legislation that would be of use to American citizens, they pursue the only platform they’ve had since 2016: destroy Donald Trump.

Had Donald Trump engaged in suspicious transactions or behavior that necessitated investigating, then the subpoena would be justified. Yet, there is no viable reason for the subpoena.

Democratic demagogue Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) sent the subpoena as part of an investigation into the period prior to Donald Trump’s election. Rep. Cummings is probing for criminal financial behavior partially based on the rat-fink testimony of former Donald Trump fixer Michael Cohen.

Dems Are Hiding Behind a Fig Leaf

Cohen can’t be trusted. He was under indictment and would do anything to reduce a government prison term. He allegedly sent Congress documents that Donald Trump monkeyed with values of assets he owned to benefit himself. This included a claim that Trump gave misleading financial information to a bank in 2014 so he could get a loan to buy the NFL’s Buffalo Bills.

This is nothing more than a fig leaf to justify the investigation, with the media ginning it up.

There is far more evidence that the Clinton “charitable foundation” was a money laundering service for political favors, yet Congress never seemed interested in investigating them.

The Oversight Committee doesn’t even have a resolution to hide behind to justify the investigation, making it all the more obvious that its motives are consistent with the Democrats’ never-ending witch hunt. Judge Mehta’s decision supported the Democrat position, saying:

“It is simply not fathomable that a Constitution that grants Congress the power to remove a president for reasons including criminal behavior would deny Congress the power to investigate him for unlawful conduct — past or present — even without formally opening an impeachment inquiry.”

That may be true; yet rather than at least excoriate Democrats for bringing forth an unjustifiable subpoena, Mehta effectively punted the decision.

“…it is not the court’s role to decipher whether Congress’ true purpose in pursuing an investigation is to aid legislation or something more sinister such as exacting political retribution.”

Dems Fear Trump, Engage in Political Retribution

It’s obvious as the nose on Mehta’s face that this is nothing other than political retribution. The Democrats white knight Robert Mueller came up with a big nothing burger in his report.

Frustrated that their best shot at removing Trump blew up in their faces, Democrats have pivoted to the “death by a thousand cuts” strategy.

They obviously hope to smear Donald Trump so that he’ll be weakened in the next election.

There is political risk for the Democrats in pursuing this strategy. They aren’t even trying to hide their hatred for Donald Trump, and Americans have an innate sense of fairness built into their value system.

It’s one thing to pursue a president when there are clear and compelling reasons for it. Yet this approach makes the Democrats appear vindictive and hateful, and that may not play very well in 2020.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in the article are solely those of the author and do not represent those of, nor should they be attributed to, CCN.

Published at Tue, 21 May 2019 03:04:06 +0000

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AlphaBay Shut Down by Law Enforcement, Admin Commits Suicide in Jail

AlphaBay Shut Down by Law Enforcement, Admin Commits Suicide in Jail

AlphaBay, the most popular marketplace on the dark web, shut down on July 4. At first, many of the users suspected an exit scam; however, it has since become clear that law enforcement has taken down the underground market. According to the Wall Street Journal, an international police action took place in the United States, Thailand and Canada.

On July 5, law enforcement in Thailand arrested Alexandre Cazes, 26, a Canadian citizen who is believed to be one of the operators of AlphaBay. On the same day, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) executed a search warrant at a residence in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, where a high-technology crime unit seized computer equipment.

Melissa Sweeney, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, stated Cazes was taken into custody by Thai authorities “with a view toward extradition to face federal criminal charges in the United States.” According to the Wall Street Journal, it wasn’t immediately clear whether the defendant had legal representation.

On Wednesday, Cazes was found hanged in his prison cell at the Narcotics Suppression Bureau in Bangkok, Thailand. The death of the alleged AlphaBay operator was confirmed by a spokeswoman for Canada’s foreign affairs department on Thursday. However, she declined to comment further on the case due to privacy reasons.

According to the Bangkok Post, the body of Cazes was found by a duty officer who noticed a towel hanging from the toilet door in his cell. When the officer entered the cell, where the suspect was held alone, he found Cazes dead. Authorities believe the suspect used the towel to hang himself.

Cazes had been living in Thailand with his wife for eight years, working as a computer programmer. The Criminal Court in Thailand issued a warrant for the suspect’s arrest on June 30 at the request of U.S. law enforcement authorities. According to the Bangkok Post, during the arrest on July 5 in the Thawi Watthana district of Bangkok, investigators seized four Lamborghini cars and three houses worth approximately 400 million baht in total (nearly $12 million).

AlphaBay was founded in December 2014, taking the place of the Silk Road Marketplace, which was seized by the FBI in October 2013. Andrei Barysevich, a director at the threat intelligence company Recorded Future Inc., told the Wall Street Journal that AlphaBay not only focused on the sale of drugs, but also allowed the advertising of products and services that other underground markets banned, such as stolen credit card numbers and online fraud tutorials. The researcher stated that AlphaBay sold more than $5 million worth of stolen credit card information in the first half of 2017 alone.

Nicolas Christin, an associate research professor at Carnegie Mellon University studying underground marketplaces, said the total sales on AlphaBay had an average of $600,000 to $800,000 a day. That means the marketplace earned millions of dollars in commissions every year.

Some users on the /r/DarkNetMarkets subreddit blamed the vulnerabilities of AlphaBay for the shutdown of the website.

“An AB vulnerability leading to an IP leak or other de-anonymization issue would not be a surprise — how many bugs were there over the years reported here [in the subreddit]? Seemed like PMs were leaked every couple months … And for every bug you see, there’s a dozen you don’t. I started being surprised a long time ago that AB was still around outliving so many apparently better-run DNMs, having neither exit-scammed nor been hacked nor been raided. Perhaps its time was simply up,” Gwern, an independent researcher, wrote.

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