Pardons, Commutations and Dropped Prosecutions |

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Ramrouser said:
Dems are contributing.

Six lawmakers actively encouraging active duty soldiers to “disobey” illegal military orders. Where were they on D Day?
Routinely calling out ICE and NG as “Gestapo” and “fascists”
Supporting open borders
Supporting cashless bails resulting in needless murders and burnings of Americans
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Are you drunk again? Where was Trump on D-Day?
 
Ramrouser said:
Dems are contributing.

Six lawmakers actively encouraging active duty soldiers to “disobey” illegal military orders. Where were they on D Day?
Routinely calling out ICE and NG as “Gestapo” and “fascists”
Supporting open borders
Supporting cashless bails resulting in needless murders and burnings of Americans
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Illegal orders should be disobeyed. Period. That is now and always has been true.

ICE is acting like the Gestapo or worse. If they don't want that label, then they should change their approach. They aren't acting as law enforcement when their primary goal is to terrorize and instill fear in immigrant communities.

Nobody of note supports open borders

The bail system is broken. I believe bail should be eliminated across the board, PARTICULARLY in white collar crime. That would actually get us to fix some things in the legal system.
 
Ramrouser said:
Dems are contributing.

Six lawmakers actively encouraging active duty soldiers to “disobey” illegal military orders. Where were they on D Day?
Routinely calling out ICE and NG as “Gestapo” and “fascists”
Supporting open borders
Supporting cashless bails resulting in needless murders and burnings of Americans
Click to expand...
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we need an entire overhaul of the bullshit two party system neither party is worth a flyin fuck and has led us to where we currently are but both sheep are too proud and too dumb to admit it.
 
Ramrouser said:
Dems are contributing.

Six lawmakers actively encouraging active duty soldiers to “disobey” illegal military orders. Where were they on D Day?
Routinely calling out ICE and NG as “Gestapo” and “fascists”
Supporting open borders
Supporting cashless bails resulting in needless murders and burnings of Americans
Click to expand...
Ram, do you think US soldiers did anything wrong at the My Lai massacre in Vietnam? Those soldiers were following orders. I’m sure you think they were unjustly prosecuted. They were following orders like all soldiers should- like the German soldiers at the concentration camps.
 
OGtruthhurts said:
we need an entire overhaul of the bullshit two party system neither party is worth a flyin fuck and has led us to where we currently are but both sheep are too proud and too dumb to admit it.
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Democrats have their problems about this both sides bullshit doesn’t fly. Democrats have attempted to advance legislation and make our lives better in nearly every area that polling shows Americans want/common sense dictates we should do. Republicans attempt to move us backwards decades.

Democrats have attempted to invest in healthcare, education, sensible gun laws, the environment, mental health, nutrition, the economy, etc. Republicans? Screw all that, just give the money to the rich.
 
nycfan said:
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“… Mr. Gentile and a co-defendant, Jeffry Schneider, were convicted in August 2024 of securities and wire fraud charges, and sentenced in May. Unlike a pardon, the commutation granted to Mr. Gentile will not erase his conviction.

Mr. Schneider, who was sentenced to six years, does not appear to have received clemency from Mr. Trump.

… In court filings, prosecutors said that Mr. Gentile and Mr. Schneider over several years used private equity funds controlled by Mr. Gentile’s company, GPB Capital, to defraud 10,000 investors by misrepresenting the performance of the funds and the source of money used to make monthly distribution payments.

More than 1,000 people submitted statements attesting to their losses, according to prosecutors, who characterized the victims as “hardworking, everyday people,” including small business owners, farmers, veterans, teachers and nurses.

“I lost my whole life savings,” one wrote, adding, “I am living from check to check.”

In a statement after the sentencing in May, Joseph Nocella Jr., the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York, said that Mr. Gentile and Mr. Schneider had “raised approximately $1.6 billion from individual investors based on false promises of generating investment returns from the profits of portfolio companies, all while using investor capital to pay distributions and create a false appearance of success.”…”
 
nycfan said:
“… Mr. Gentile and a co-defendant, Jeffry Schneider, were convicted in August 2024 of securities and wire fraud charges, and sentenced in May. Unlike a pardon, the commutation granted to Mr. Gentile will not erase his conviction.

Mr. Schneider, who was sentenced to six years, does not appear to have received clemency from Mr. Trump.

… In court filings, prosecutors said that Mr. Gentile and Mr. Schneider over several years used private equity funds controlled by Mr. Gentile’s company, GPB Capital, to defraud 10,000 investors by misrepresenting the performance of the funds and the source of money used to make monthly distribution payments.

More than 1,000 people submitted statements attesting to their losses, according to prosecutors, who characterized the victims as “hardworking, everyday people,” including small business owners, farmers, veterans, teachers and nurses.

“I lost my whole life savings,” one wrote, adding, “I am living from check to check.”

In a statement after the sentencing in May, Joseph Nocella Jr., the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York, said that Mr. Gentile and Mr. Schneider had “raised approximately $1.6 billion from individual investors based on false promises of generating investment returns from the profits of portfolio companies, all while using investor capital to pay distributions and create a false appearance of success.”…”
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“… But the White House official argued that prosecutors had falsely characterized the business as a Ponzi scheme. The official said that in 2015, GPB disclosed to investors the possibility that investor capital might be used to pay some distributions.

As of Saturday, the text of the commutation had yet to be posted on the Justice Department’s website.

It was not clear whether the commutation would affect any financial penalties.

In June, prosecutors asked the judge in the case to order Mr. Gentile to forfeit more than $15.5 million and Mr. Schneider to forfeit more than $12 million.

And in September, prosecutors indicated in a letter to the judge that a court-appointed receiver had access to more than $700 million, “which is likely to be distributed to investors.”…”
 
finesse said:
Are he and Trump part of a mutual admiration society?
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Not clear yet. The Pardons Czar is a busy bee. Not all of the commutations and pardons are obviously corrupt. But this guy took a lot of money from a lot of ordinary middle class investors.
 
Rock said:
Democrats have their problems about this both sides bullshit doesn’t fly. Democrats have attempted to advance legislation and make our lives better in nearly every area that polling shows Americans want/common sense dictates we should do. Republicans attempt to move us backwards decades.

Democrats have attempted to invest in healthcare, education, sensible gun laws, the environment, mental health, nutrition, the economy, etc. Republicans? Screw all that, just give the money to the rich.
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I realize this won't sit well here, but there's some truth to og's statement. As someone who was a lobbyist in Washington D.C. for 30 years I can honestly say the elected party members have different agendas once they get elected than the party members who voted for them. That's all I'll say about it.
 
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