Yanis Varoufakis: Europe should be convulsing at US sanctions against French ICC judge

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41752575.html

via @IrishExaminer

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Yanis Varoufakis: Europe should be convulsing at US sanctions against French ICC judge

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41752575.html

via @IrishExaminer

#ICC #Gaxa #Palestine #Ideal #France #Europe #USA #Trump #USPol #EUPol #FRPol #InternationalLaw #UN #UnitedNations #RuleOfLaw #YannisVaroufakis

"After Trump launched his own cryptocurrency, $TRUMP, his Department of Justice disbanded its cryptocurrency-enforcement unit. The top 220 buyers of Trump’s cryptocurrency were invited to a dinner with Trump. Sixty-seven of them had invested more than $1 million. The top spender, Justin Sun, who was born in China and is a foreign national, reportedly spent more than $10 million."

#Trump #corruption #crime #RuleofLaw #crypto #grift #JustinSun
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"There is, however, no indication that any investigation has occurred. Rather, a few months after Sun started purchasing tokens from the Trump-family cryptocurrency company, the Securities and Exchange Commission paused its fraud suit against Sun and his companies pending the outcome of settlement negotiations."

#Trump #corruption #crime #RuleofLaw #crypto #grift #JustinSun
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"Sun also reportedly spent $75 million on investments issued by a crypto company controlled by Trump’s family. It is illegal for people who are not U.S. citizens to donate to American political candidates, and the most that anyone can donate directly to one candidate is $3,500. Ordinarily, the Department of Justice would investigate this sort of situation."

#Trump #corruption #crime #RuleofLaw #crypto #grift #JustinSun
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"After Trump launched his own cryptocurrency, $TRUMP, his Department of Justice disbanded its cryptocurrency-enforcement unit. The top 220 buyers of Trump’s cryptocurrency were invited to a dinner with Trump. Sixty-seven of them had invested more than $1 million. The top spender, Justin Sun, who was born in China and is a foreign national, reportedly spent more than $10 million."

#Trump #corruption #crime #RuleofLaw #crypto #grift #JustinSun
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Robert Reich features a statement made by former federal judge Mark L. Wolf explaining why he resigned from the federal bench in early November. Wolf states,

"The White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable. ...

What Nixon did episodically and covertly, knowing it was illegal or improper, Trump now does routinely and overtly."

#Trump #corruption #crime #RuleofLaw
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/winner-of-this-weeks-joseph-welch

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"freeing him less than two weeks after he reported to prison, despite regulators’ findings that thousands of investors lost their savings and ongoing questions about any ties between Gentile and Trump."

#Trump #Gentile #corruption #crime #PaytoPlay #grift #RuleofLaw
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"Trump granted clemency to private-equity CEO David Gentile—who had just begun serving a seven-year sentence for orchestrating a $1.6bn fraud that diverted investor money to luxury personal expenses—"

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #Gentile #corruption #crime #PaytoPlay #grift #RuleofLaw
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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/important-sunday-evening-news-update