Biden pardons Hunter | Biden commutes sentences of nearly all federal death row inmates to life in prison

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superrific said:
Indeed. It's actually an order of magnitude higher than that, at least. There are about 25 million such reports or notifications every year. Less than a thousand are actionable. Or maybe less than 10,000. Don't remember the decimal point off the top of my head, but it's 99.9+% at least.

I would guess that half the posters here have had an SAR (or similar notification) filed about their activity. I have. If you've ever received a significant payment from a private entity that the bank doesn't know (and there are millions of them), then you've likely been flagged for an SAR. In law school, I worked as a programming consultant and my client had liquidity issues. They usually owed me about $40-50K at any one time, which was fine with me except when I needed money for tuition. My fifth semester in law school, the company didn't have the funds, so the owner of the company (who was an alum of my law school and who liked me) paid me personally (I assume he then sought reimbursement). The check was written by an LLC. Boom! SAR.
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I am confident I have. Back in my card counting days, I would often have to deposit large amounts of cash. I tried not to make the deposits/withdrawals too frequently -- not just for SARs, but also because some banks will fire you if you have too many cash transactions. The "know your customer" regs place a lot of pressure on banks to file SARs once cash transactions get above $3k in a day.

In Hunter's case, I am confident that his drug purchases likely triggered almost all of those SARs.
 
Trump appointed judge.....

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Judge in Hunter Biden’s tax case blasts Joe Biden for ‘rewriting history’ with son’s pardon

(CNN)-The federal judge who oversaw Hunter Biden’s tax case blasted President Joe Biden for trying to “rewrite history” in his justification for pardoning his son.

District Judge Mark Scarsi wrote in a five-page order Tuesday that some of the “representations contained” in the president’s Sunday statement announcing the pardon “stand in tension with the case record.” Scarsi specifically took issue with Biden’s rationale that his son’s tax problems were all caused by his struggle with alcohol and drug addiction.

“The Constitution provides the President with broad authority to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States … but nowhere does the Constitution give the President the authority to rewrite history,” Scarsi wrote.

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ZenMode said:
Trump appointed judge.....

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Judge in Hunter Biden’s tax case blasts Joe Biden for ‘rewriting history’ with son’s pardon

(CNN)-The federal judge who oversaw Hunter Biden’s tax case blasted President Joe Biden for trying to “rewrite history” in his justification for pardoning his son.

District Judge Mark Scarsi wrote in a five-page order Tuesday that some of the “representations contained” in the president’s Sunday statement announcing the pardon “stand in tension with the case record.” Scarsi specifically took issue with Biden’s rationale that his son’s tax problems were all caused by his struggle with alcohol and drug addiction.

“The Constitution provides the President with broad authority to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States … but nowhere does the Constitution give the President the authority to rewrite history,” Scarsi wrote.

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Joe is a human piece of shit. He has tried to use his son's death and crackhead hunter's drug addiction to gain sympathy for political gain over, and over, and over. And, for years he refused to publicly acknowledge hunter's illegitimate daughter was his granddaughter. Only when it became a political liability did he publicly acknowledge her.

"The judge also rebuked the president for claiming his son was “singled out” for prosecution because of political reasons. Earlier this year, Scarsi rejected this exact argument from Hunter Biden, who wanted the indictment tossed on those grounds. (The judge in Hunter Biden’s gun case also rejected the selective-prosecution theory.)

Joe Biden’s announcement claimed “no reasonable person” could conclude this wasn’t a politically motivated prosecution. But Scarsi noted plenty of Justice Department officials, including the attorney general, oversaw the case — and therefore, “in the President’s estimation, this legion of federal civil servants … are unreasonable people.”
 
Callatoroy said:
Joe is a human piece of shit. He has tried to use his son's death and crackhead hunter's drug addiction to gain sympathy for political gain over, and over, and over. And, for years he refused to publicly acknowledge hunter's illegitimate daughter was his granddaughter. Only when it became a political liability did he publicly acknowledge her.

"The judge also rebuked the president for claiming his son was “singled out” for prosecution because of political reasons. Earlier this year, Scarsi rejected this exact argument from Hunter Biden, who wanted the indictment tossed on those grounds. (The judge in Hunter Biden’s gun case also rejected the selective-prosecution theory.)

Joe Biden’s announcement claimed “no reasonable person” could conclude this wasn’t a politically motivated prosecution. But Scarsi noted plenty of Justice Department officials, including the attorney general, oversaw the case — and therefore, “in the President’s estimation, this legion of federal civil servants … are unreasonable people.”
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And I suppose you think Trump is a swell guy? Cheating on his wife with a playboy playmate and a porn star, then tried to cover it up with hush money (just a tiny fraction of his transgressions). Now TRUMP is what I would call a human piece of shit, not Biden.

What a sad, angry man you are. Well, at least you'll have two, maybe four years of happiness to look forward to. Enjoy!
 
I don't get the issue with this, he probably shouldn't have said he wasn't and then wind up doing it, but to me its just a non-issue. Republicans making a mountain out of a mole hill.
 
Bobfripp said:
And I suppose you think Trump is a swell guy? Cheating on his wife with a playboy playmate and a porn star, then tried to cover it up with hush money (just a tiny fraction of his transgressions). Now TRUMP is what I would call a human piece of shit, not Biden.

What a sad, angry man you are. Well, at least you'll have two, maybe four years of happiness to look forward to. Enjoy!
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Literally your TDS go to. This has nothing to do with trump. Ask yourself why, like a robot you default to trump. I never mentioned trump nor tried to make a comparison. It’s just a reflex isn’t it? So infected that you can’t just argue the point based on Biden alone if you disagree.
 
Callatoroy said:
Literally your TDS go to. This has nothing to do with trump. Ask yourself why, like a robot you default to trump. I never mentioned trump nor tried to make a comparison. It’s just a reflex isn’t it? So infected that you can’t just argue the point based on Biden alone if you disagree.
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As opposed to BDS (e.g. Biden is a human piece of shit? - that's a derangement syndrome if I've ever seen one). So you don't like Biden or Trump. Understood. Who do you follow? Where do you get your 'news?'
 
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stupid argument that the special counsel was illegally appointed. If that's true, Hunter's case should also be dismissed for the same reason

Actually the special prosecutor in the hunter case was an acting us attorney confirmed by the senate, a requirement. The special counsel in the trump case never was. All they had to do was put him underneath the Florida US attorney and he would have been fine, but the DOJ was trying to claim politically they had no authority over him, tho they certainly did.
 
superrific said:
1. Hunter is less a POS than the median American.
2. Nobody else would have gotten the treatment Hunter has gotten, so it would be like fighting unfair with unfair.
3. Whether or not it's the right thing to do, why get pissed off about that of all things? It's so tiny and insignificant.
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So we know the IRS started investigating hunter when his name came up in a sex trafficking investigation. The laptop information in the hands of the FBI were not provided to these IRS investigators even tho it was well know to be underway.
He was charged with tax evasion. How would someone else have been treated given several years of charges were excluded due to delays in prosecution. Seems to me he was given an easy time of it.
 
chrissteel said:
So we know the IRS started investigating hunter when his name came up in a sex trafficking investigation. The laptop information in the hands of the FBI were not provided to these IRS investigators even tho it was well know to be underway.
He was charged with tax evasion. How would someone else have been treated given several years of charges were excluded due to delays in prosecution. Seems to me he was given an easy time of it.
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lol Trump pardoned random rappers for photo opps and this is a major issue? LOL.

Joe should have fired the investigator years ago anyway. Sloppy joe
 
chrissteel said:
stupid argument that the special counsel was illegally appointed. If that's true, Hunter's case should also be dismissed for the same reason

Actually the special prosecutor in the hunter case was an acting us attorney confirmed by the senate, a requirement. The special counsel in the trump case never was. All they had to do was put him underneath the Florida US attorney and he would have been fine, but the DOJ was trying to claim politically they had no authority over him, tho they certainly did.
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Actually, you don't know what you're talking about. Hunter's lawyers were drawing directly from a Thomas concurrence about the appropriations clause. There is no daylight between the two cases when it comes to the illegal appointments. If you'd like to point me to the regulation or statute that you think applies in one case and not the other, I'd like to see it. If you're making the Article II argument, which is ultimately quite silly, then fine but putting Jack Smith under the direction of the US attorney would make no difference to a constitutional issue.

The real answer is that Cannon was wrong and egregiously so.
 
chrissteel said:
So we know the IRS started investigating hunter when his name came up in a sex trafficking investigation. The laptop information in the hands of the FBI were not provided to these IRS investigators even tho it was well know to be underway.
He was charged with tax evasion. How would someone else have been treated given several years of charges were excluded due to delays in prosecution. Seems to me he was given an easy time of it.
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Fetterman called bullshit on the trump case as it was politically motivated. Anyone not afflicted with TDS knew this. How was hunter’s case a case of doj weaponization given it was daddy’s doj investigating him?
 
Callatoroy said:

Fetterman called bullshit on the trump case as it was politically motivated. Anyone not afflicted with TDS knew this. How was hunter’s case a case of doj weaponization given it was daddy’s doj investigating him?
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Hopefully, the Trump DOJ will get to the bottom of the Biden crime family, and put Joe Biden in jail where he belongs! Looking forward to it! And then it'll be the Trump crime family's turn at some point.
 
Callatoroy said:
This has nothing to do with trump.
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Ok cool. Where I come from, when someone takes an opportunistic shot and claims what you did, then its expected from then on, that poster is front and center ether defending every despicable thing his guy does or admit how despicable his guy is when he does stuff. You game? Have a strong feeling the Board can police it.
 
Callatoroy said:
Literally your TDS go to. This has nothing to do with trump. Ask yourself why, like a robot you default to trump. I never mentioned trump nor tried to make a comparison. It’s just a reflex isn’t it? So infected that you can’t just argue the point based on Biden alone if you disagree.
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Maddow: Trump's shameless abuse of pardons, nepotism disqualifies him from criticizing Biden pardon

Rachel Maddow looks at Donald Trump's shameless abuse of the presidential pardon power and the disgraceful level of nepotism in the early staffing of his second administration, in comparison to President Biden's pardoning of his son, Hunter, to spare him further politically motivated prosecution...
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Fetterman says Trump should be pardoned of New York conviction​


Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said President-elect Trump deserves a pardon in a Thursday appearance on “The View” shortly after President Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden.

“I think that it’s undeniable that the case against Hunter Biden was really politically motivated but I also think it’s true that the trial in New York for Trump was political as well, too,” he told host Joy Behar.


“In both cases I think a pardon is appropriate and I really think collectively that America’s confidence in these types of institutions have been damaged by these kinds of cases, and we cannot allow these types of institutions to be weaponized against our political opponents,” he added.

 
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