A federal judge on Friday declined to take action against former President Trump through contempt of court for allegedly failing to comply with a subpoena. And our federal government doesnt even keep a database of them and their crimes, even though they cost Americans as much as $800 billion a year and hundreds of thousands of lost lives. The Republican counter slogan was: Ma, ma wheres my pa? When Cleveland defeated Blaine, the Democrats added: Gone to the White House, ha, ha ha!. 9 hours ago. Now is the time. Its notoriously easy to pierce the corporate veil of a business with revenues not measured in the millions and directly go after what is typically the companys sole stockholder. 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What we need now is hard work and vision to deliver the safety our communities need, and the fairness we deserve," Bragg closes his piece withentitled but also tone-deaf until the bitter end. They gave her just $3,468 after subtracting about $146,500 in insurance payments. Offering a false instrument for filing with a public office is a crime in New York. @Heritage: The Blue City Murder Problem https://t.co/OVyalCQCcd. Please share BPR content to help combat the lies. Zeldin also made inroads with Asian voters, who are often the victim of these hate crimes. Many werent so lucky. Copyright Townhall.com/Salem Media. The grant and insurance proceeds covered her entire loss, as it was supposed to, and by April 2007 she had completely rebuilt. There are no children in this neighborhood anymore.. 02:43. The Manhattan district attorney has hired a former senior U.S. Department of Justice official who has investigated Donald Trump, and who may be again be called on to investigate the former U.S. president's activities. Other topics include "sex crimes," "hate crimes," "tenant protection," "retail theft," and "pathways to public safety. When I was in leadership at the New York State Attorney Generals Office, I helped start a series of cases against large pharmaceutical companies for their marketing of opioids. What I saw is that the victims of Hurricane Katrina were being victimized again., In October 2006, shortly after Road Home was launched, Ehrlich met with officials in charge of the recovery and argued their formula for calculating grants was unfair. The Seventh Ward doesnt sing like it used to, she said. The meeting was not merely unacceptable, its just wrong, said Netanyahu recently on Meet the Press.. There is no sign anywhere saying that samples are one per customer. The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill, by James D. Zirin, Opinion Contributor - 11/27/22 9:00 AM ET, Pelosis daughter blasts GOP figures for joking about attack on father, NASA will name Artemis II crew in early 2023. With Donald Trump now an official 2024 candidate for the White House, expect the resistance to whip into overdrive any day now to besmirch and otherwise demonize the former president. Alvin Bragg is the 37th District Attorney elected in Manhattan. While the appeals court accused plaintiffs of cherry-picking their data by focusing on majority-Black New Orleans, the news outlets analysis shows the disparity between wealthy and poor neighborhoods statewide was similar to that in New Orleans. 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But neither he nor any executives at the company spent a single day in jail. In reality, he does the opposite of all of that. This is despite the crime crisis which has occurred during his time in office, which Bragg, Hochul, and fellow Democrats have largely dismissed. Thats a subversion of what hate speech should be about: recognizing the link between words and violence and the need to protect vulnerable minorities by placing boundaries on that speech. The analysis was conducted on a subset of 91,771 rebuilding grants that had valid grant and damage amounts, were not part of a lawsuit over errors in grant calculations and did not fall under a limited number of other circumstances that could yield incorrect information. Democrats should do the same as we head toward 2024, targeting the real killers and thieves in this nation. To ramp up the pressure, the prosecutors are considering a new round of charges against Mr. Weisselberg in hopes of securing his cooperation against the former president, the people said. We love hearing from our readers and invite you to join us for feedback and great conversation. Andy Kopplin, the first executive director of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, stressed that state officials took pains to steer more money to poorer homeowners through a second grant program. Instead, he put the case aside, resulting in the resignation of two top prosecutors who blew the whistle on Bragg's decisions. If the speech is directed elsewhere, no matter how vulnerable, its free speech. They have a copy of the NDA -- the nondisclosure agreement, that was provided to Stormy Daniels. He's a phenomenal lawyer. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. She wasnt willing to accept what she described as an injustice without a fight. Bragg did indict the Trump Organization (but not Trump) for financial and tax fraud from which Trump benefited, and that trial is in its final stages. They have obviously, his tax returns, and they have not only my testimony, but the testimony of others, in regard to how this $130,000 was treated for tax purposes by the Trump Organization, Allen Weissberg and the accounting firm.". If you are fed up with letting radical big tech execs, phony fact-checkers, tyrannical liberals and a lying mainstream media have unprecedented power over your news please consider making a donation to BPR to help us fight them. District Attorney Alvin Bragg Diagnoses The Uptick in Crime During COVID. It appeared that the document had lacked internal vetting and had disregarded the political realities of rising crime in New York. Not only do we have the Stormy Daniels case of the campaign finance violation, but there's also the Karen McDougal case which was paid for by the National Enquirer's David Pecker and AMI. Who is Lockerbie bombing suspect Abu Agila Mohammad Masud Kheir Al-Marimi? It took her nearly a decade, but she managed to rebuild with the help of relatives and church volunteers. James Perry, the head of the housing center, said his organization examined two nearly identical homes: four bedrooms, two bathrooms, brick construction. Instead, he sees hate speech through a lens of personal grievance. As homeowners received their grant letters over the course of 2007, hundreds showed up at Fingers low-income law clinic at Loyola University. Fox News contributor Miranda Devine discusses Twitter CEO Elon Musk firing former Twitter lawyer and former FBI general counsel James Baker. Road Home also allowed homeowners to sell their property to the state and move elsewhere, though housing was scarce in the region. For money. She had to gut her modest ranch home. Alvin Bragg: I think he ran an anti-democrati, authoritarian, race-baiting campaign. At one point he also repeats the claim that post-pandemic crime has gone up in red states, citing an op-ed by Paul Krugman for The New York Times. The cover up of the federal crime has an essential similarity to a criminal violation of the New York penal law, and this is the precise question Bragg is reportedly pondering. "However in this specific case, it appears that there's even more that there might be a secondary case that they're looking at, which is how he treated the hush money reimbursement payments to me. Fellow Democrats, including and especially Gov. Zeldin tried to paint Bragg, the first Black elected D.A. I dont know the names of the men who poisoned and killed my father and my brother Stan, but I know where they worked and why they did it: just like Ruf, Dennis, Hunsucker and Pettis, they intentionally and knowingly took actions they believed would result in death when they sold asbestos to my dads employer and got my brother addicted to tobacco. That increased their grant to about $83,500. We may earn a commission from links on this page. Legal Statement. Her grant, based on repair costs minus what shed already gotten from insurance, was $135,000. "He would be calling for an overhaul of other pro-criminal laws, such as Less is More, the HALT Act, Raise the Age, and recent discovery law changes. Bragg previously served as chief deputy attorney general of New York and as an assistant United States Attorney in the This smart roomba is on sale and ready to suck up dust, pet hair, or whatever else is lingering on your floor. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. I end up getting charged for it. Published Yet, Bragg still refused to act and it was never clear why. People in the most impoverished areas in New Orleans those with a median income of $15,000 or less had to cover 30% of their rebuilding costs after Road Home grants, Federal Emergency Management Agency aid and insurance. Community leaders said the largest rebuilding program in U.S. history would be unfair to the states poorest residents. READ MORE: Vandals cite Kanye West in antisemitic graffiti attack on century-old Jewish cemetery. But one house was in a white neighborhood and the other in a Black neighborhood. All rights reserved. The Heissers finally moved back into their house in 2018 13 years after the storm. All Rights Reserved. Support our commitment to credible conservative news. When people complained that using home values to calculate grants would help some people more than others, officials argued that pre-storm value had been part of the formula from the start. The Washington Post reported on Department of Justice officials who believe the prisoner swap of Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for Brittney Griner was a "mistake.". You go into a store that gives free samples. Some members of the GOP spoke out. 04:56. A lot of people, especially people who are more elderly, they just didnt come back.. He may be the first to charge Donald Trump, a former President of the United States, with a criminal violation, the falsely characterized payment of $130,000 to a porn actress named Stormy Daniels. Three months after the appeals court ruling, Louisiana and HUD settled the lawsuit. And when these members of Congress proposed it happen, not a single Republican joined their effort. Joshua Hunsucker poisoned his wife for a mere $250K in life insurance money, $80,000 of which he used to buy a boat. Hochul, have also had a one-track mind when it comes to equating crime solely with guns. Then there is Alvin Bragg, the newly elected district attorney in Manhattan. Trump administration was not prepared for or not interested Musk calls to prosecute Fauci, drawing swift backlash, The DeSantis secret weapon that Democrats and Trump should fear, COVID, RSV or flu? With Gov. The additional grants did help homeowners in lower-income, nonwhite areas in New Orleans, most of which are majority Black. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. Now playing. But for most people in affluent areas, the rebuilding cost was lower than the value of their homes. The Root: Why did Lee Zeldin come at you so hard ? In August 2009, Finger told a congressional committee that the formula disproportionately hurt Black residents because their homes tended to be valued for less. The plan was to help the homeowner repair his home or her home and get back in the home, Leger said. That enabled the state to meet a HUD requirement to pay at least half of grant money to low- and moderate-income households. The rapper tweeted recently a photo of a swastika inside the Star of David. Charles Heisser appealed, arguing Road Home had failed to factor in tens of thousands of dollars in improvements they had made before the storm. 2:08 PM EDT, Thu September 8, 2022. I learned the same way everybody else did," saie Cohen, noting he only found out because reporters were texting him for statements. Our analysis focused on 30,188 records from Orleans Parish and 5,911 from St. Bernard Parish. Copyright 2022 Raw Story Media, Inc. PO Box 21050, Washington, D.C. 20009 | Masthead | Privacy Policy | For corrections or concerns, please email corrections@rawstory.com. Local prosecutors tend not to be the targets of attack ads from gubernatorial candidates, especially Republicans running as a tough-on-crime friends of law enforcement. If you were in the right neighborhood, you got what you needed to rebuild.. Odds are none will ever see the inside of a jail cell, and their companies will never be dissolved. The Department of Justice requested a U.S. District Court Judge hold Donald Trump's office in contempt of court for failing to comply with order to return all classified documents. New York has no recall procedure, as exists in California, but Bragg has been taking it on the chin. If it had, I would have questioned why the program wasnt treating people equitably.. Each had flooded with 6 feet of water and had damages estimated at more than $200,000. While the action equates to using a public office to seek out a reason to charge a political enemy, the Times noted that for Bragg, the hush-money developments suggest the first signs of progress since he took office at the beginning of the year, when he balked at indicting Mr. Trump in connection with his business practices.. Who gives a damn about some free samples that are probably just overstocked items the store wants to move anyway. Braggs predecessor, Cyrus Vance, had kicked over the hot potato without obtaining an indictment. Instead, itll pay a maximum $1.6 million fine that represents less money than just one of Trumps several-criminally-implicated employees and relatives made off with by the company committing their fraud for the past 15 years. Finally, on Monday, Bragg said he was reconsidering it. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks to supporters in New York, Nov. 2, 2021.Craig Ruttle | AP The resignations raised questions about the state of the DA's probe, with some experts. On the one hand, thousands of residents desperately needed rebuilding aid. We were told no, he said. None of the people that I know in New Orleans East actually got any Road Home money. READ MORE: Trump claims he 'knew nothing about' white supremacist who he and Kanye West dined with at Mar-a-Lago. Hochul's Republican opponent, on the other hand, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), made crime a major focus of his campaign, and almost one. Whoever wins the AG seat in 2022 could win up overseeing that effort. Kinzinger worried Griner swap could encourage future hostage taking, Arizonas GOP governor accused of illegal dumping over border wall effort, Trump, Biden fortunes shift dramatically post-midterms, CBAM: The EUs game changer for sustainable trade. But with the goal line in sight, Garland appointed a special counsel anyway. But thats exactly what Lee Zeldin, the GOP nominee for New York governor, did by coming for Manhattan district attorney in the closing weeks of Zeldins campaign to become New York States top elected official. resignation of the two prominent assistant district attorneys, falsity of the business records was intended to cover up another crime, Offering a false instrument for filing with a public office, Justice Department prosecutors believed they had amassed sufficient evidence, With new Twitter files, Musk forces a free-speech reckoningfor politicians and pundits. MANHATTAN, New York -- Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced Monday that his office has hired former Justice Department official Matthew Colangelo as senior counsel. But the CEOs and senior executives of Americas deadliest corporations made and get to keep a hell of a lot more money than Ruf, Dennis, Hunsucker and Pettis could ever imagine. The task is to figure out whats been breached, usually by getting people to explain why the breach feels wrong. The response was far from universal, with a surprising number either not responding or performing some type of political calculation. ", In closing, Zeldin's statement makes clear that "Our criticism of Bragg has absolutely nothing to do with his skin color. Bragg previously served as chief deputy attorney general of New York and as an assistant United States Attorney in the Water reached the eaves of many homes. The district attorneys office first examined the payment to the actress, Stormy Daniels, years ago before changing direction to scrutinize Mr. Trumps broader business practices. If the speech hurts him or someone he cares about, its hate speech. On Friday, Merrick B. Garland, the U.S. attorney general, appointed a special prosecutor who vowed to proceed quickly with two federal investigations into the former president. But they noted that they were building a program of unprecedented scope and dealing with unforeseen problems, all while under intense pressure to get money to homeowners quickly. For Republican lawmakers, hate speech is more about what a condemnation means politically than what it means for a vulnerable group. Latest News District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who inherited the case when he took office in January, has said that an investigation of Trump is active and ongoing, and that no decision has been made on whether to charge him. Latest News With an estimated 93 percent of the vote in, Hochul has 52.86 percent of the vote to Zeldin's 47.14 percent. CNN justice reporter Evan Perez noted that DOJ, FBI and DEA officials see the trade of U.S. citizen Brittney Griner for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout as "epically bad.". READ MORE: Trumps Dinner with Kanye also included a former aide accused in pay-for-pardon play. In his recent statewide gubernatorial campaign, Republican Lee Zeldin had his own day one memorandum. Thats not cool. Um, wait a minute! Weve got to continue to use sort of a public health approach and be mindful of the disparities in treatment and incarceration. Boutte gazed wistfully, as if she could still hear the calls of the Mardi Gras Indians that day. James G. Blaine! Instead, when street crime, drugs and hate crimes against Asian-. She followed up with examples. US 1 day ago Francis was a revered civil rights leader and longtime president of Xavier University, a historically Black school, and Finger said she does not believe he and the other architects of Road Home intended it to be discriminatory. A spokesperson for the district attorneys office declined to comment. He explained that he has no idea how it showed up in the Times Monday morning. Circuit overturned that ruling and sent the case back to district court, rejecting claims the grant formula was discriminatory. The experience was quite different for Cynthia and Charles Heisser of Gentilly Woods. He would be fighting to protect qualified immunity for law-enforcement and ensuring our men and women in blue have all the tools and resources they need to do their jobs safely and effectively. But, under New York law, the federal felony need not be a mirror image of the New York felony, precisely corresponding in every detail, but it must have essential similarity.. In the highest-income areas, it would have taken less than eight months. Actress Kirby Howell-Baptiste Has Two Books Worth Gifting This Holiday. Theres a lot of talk about two standards of justice in America, one for the rich and another for everybody else. But theres a third standard of justice for corporations and their senior executives that commit crimes. That would be farther down the line after thinking about what the dinner means for the group that the speech affects. Indict me too: Will Cryptomes call to be charged kill the case against WikiLeaks Assange? New York has no recall procedure, as exists in California, but Bragg has been taking it on the chin. Americans spiked, liberal San Francisco voted Boudin out of office. Construction began almost immediately. A spokesperson for the district attorneys office declined to comment. In the memo, he instructed his prosecutors to stop prosecuting low-level crimes and ask judges for jail or prison time only for the most serious offenses including murder, sexual assault and economic crimes involving vast sums of money unless the law required them to do otherwise. Road Home also underpaid residents of St. Bernard Parish, a mostly white, working-class community devastated by the hurricane. If charged anew, Weisselberg could again accomplish a plea deal, and turn states evidence against Trump in a new case. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, Because you breached an unwritten rule governing how we interact. With a grant based on the repair cost, the average homeowner received 83% of what was needed to rebuild, according to the news organizations analysis. It took more than three years for her to complete repairs. In areas where the median income was more than $75,000, the shortfall was 20%, according to the analysis by ProPublica, The Times-Picayune | The Advocate and WWL-TV. ", "So, again, I don't really have a lot of answers here, other than to say they have all of the documents that they need," said Cohen. Now playing. The New York Times reported that a security camera caught a long-serving Trump staffer moving boxes after the subpoena demanding the return of all classified documents. The Bragg memo, until it was quickly withdrawn, evoked a firestorm of criticism from the already demoralized New York City Police Department (NYPD), the mayor and the governor seeking reelection. No sooner had he taken office than he issued a day one memorandum. Housing advocates say thats due to the original sin of the Road Home program: It calculated each grant based on a homes value before the hurricane or on the cost of repairs whichever was less. I dont know who is whos advising him on his staff, but I hope that whoever that person was got fired.. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sat in a back row of the courtroom during the opening statements as Hoffenberg opened the trial of the high-stakes case for his office. Basing grants on the pre-storm value of homes, she wrote, would justifiably anger the middle and lower economic classes, or, more specifically, everyone who does not have an expensive house or lot.. District Attorney Alvin Bragg Diagnoses The Uptick in Crime During COVID. Please help us! Bragg's op-ed doesn't get any better. You might be asked to stop eating samples, to which you could mention theres no sign saying one per person. With Gov. District Attorney Bragg Announces All-Count Trial Convictions of The Trump Corporation and The Trump Payroll Corp. The Twitter Files That Really Have Leftists Worried, The Lefts Back Door Attack on the Constitution, Everything You Wanted to Know About Chanukah but Were Afraid to Ask. Few would disagree, but my next thought was not be how dining with someone spewing hate speech impacts a persons career advancement. One morning in September, Lynette Boutte picked up a piece of artwork in her Seventh Ward beauty salon. Any use of neighborhoods refers to these boundaries. ", While Cohen was prosecuted and jailed, Pecker never was, despite doing the same thing. But in the end, the additional grants merely boosted the average share of damage covered by grants and insurance from about 51% to about 70% in those parts of New Orleans. District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who inherited the case when he took office in January, has said that an investigation of Trump is active and ongoing, and that no decision has been made on whether to charge him. Enjoy the REAL news at your fingertips. Where this case going it would have been great had he stepped forward in this The New York Times article, or gone on television, and announced that we are pursuing this case against Donald Trump for campaign finance violation, as well as misrepresentation on the tax documents.". TR: I just re-watched Nelson Georges Netflix documentary about the crack era. In Lakeview, where Stoudt grew up, the post-Katrina recovery looks dramatically different. In the resulting lawsuit, attorneys cited 2000 census data to prove their case: About 93% of Black-owned homes in New Orleans were valued at less than $150,000, compared to 55% of white-owned homes. PBS asked 57 GOP lawmakers if they condemn the dinner. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks to supporters in New York, Nov. 2, 2021.Craig Ruttle | AP The resignations raised questions about the state of the DA's probe, with some experts. or redistributed. A Quick Bible Study, Vol. New York has no recall procedure, as exists in California, but Bragg has been taking it on the chin. Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen said that there has long been enough evidence for New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg to go after Donald Trump had he wanted. 02:43. The New York Times reported that investigators from the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg questioned Ulrich as part of an illegal gambling investigation and seized his phone on Tuesday. NY's Asian voters rejected Dems, backed Zeldin and GOP over crime, education https://t.co/Q5QvEzgDAu pic.twitter.com/ObdDDLWDwG. Thank you for donating. The Manhattan district attorneys investigation into the Trump Organizations finances is ongoing, District Attorney Alvin Bragg told reporters Thursday. Such is the same tactic employed by Hillary Clinton and Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner, who has been impeached though he has not yet been convicted or acquitted. We will no longer be beholden to them but we need your help. Cynthia Heisser couldnt help but notice how differently things went in mostly white parts of New Orleans. It feels wrong to the people who witness it. Ye has given us a gift. TR: Public safety, especially gun violence, was a huge issue for voters across the country. She founded a grassroots organization, the Citizens Road Home Action Team, and became a thorn in the side of Road Home officials. Road Home estimated her homes value at $320,000 and her repair costs at $188,000. Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen said that there has long been enough evidence for New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg to go after Donald Trump had he wanted. Continental liar from the State of Maine!, In response, the Republicans unveiled the accusation that Democrat Grover Cleveland was said to have sired a child out of wedlock. Trump married Melania in 2005. They originally envisioned an affordable loan program to fill any gaps between grants and the actual costs of rebuilding, but it never got off the ground. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. Townhall.com is the leading source for conservative news and political commentary and analysis. 143: The Magis Gifts to Baby Jesus, A Police Report Reveals New Details On Genderfluid Biden Official Caught Stealing Luggage, NBC Lies About Brittney Griner Story to Accompany Bidens Claims, A safer, fairer Manhattan is within our reach: DA Alvin Bragg on where to go from here, We Were Wrong About Progressive DAs. Now its McMansions, 4,000 square feet, double-lot monsters, Stoudt said. Now, there is nothing illegal about having a meretricious affair, and there is nothing illegal about paying ones sexual partner to keep things quiet. One of the easily understood and fun activities in a sociology class is the breaching experiment. The purpose of the breaching experiment, introduced by late sociologist Harold Garfinkel, is to illustrate the taken-for-granted informal rules that we live by in our daily lives. Did you encounter any technical issues? But the news outlets analysis shows the appeals courts assessment was wrong. Bragg made the announcement at a news conference on the indictment of Steve Bannon. The Department of Justice requested a U.S. District Court Judge hold Donald Trump's office in contempt of court for failing to comply with order to return all classified documents. AB: I grew up during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic. Daniels claimed that she had sex with Trump in the Beverly Hills Hotel. The Times said the scope of the investigation was not clear. An attorney representing poor homeowners testified before Congress. Matthew Colangelo will serve as senior counsel to the district attorney Alvin Bragg, following two years helping oversee the Justice Department's State officials made tweaks and settled the lawsuit, but they never changed a core part of the formula that determined how much homeowners received. From the beginning, Road Home had a problem. "As we saw in the Jose Alba case and many other cases in his office, Bragg is one of the weakest, far-left DAs in the entire nation. Before Katrina, the neighborhoods of Lakeview and Gentilly Woods had a lot in common. www.youtube.com. But The Trump Organization, a New York corporation that was just convicted of 17 criminal counts of tax fraud, not only wont go to jail but also wont even be dissolved for its crimes. However, they had yet to recommend as much to Garland. Is there anything worse these days than being a progressive prosecutor? He has the affair. The state agreed to put $62 million aside for yet another program, this one for people who made too much money to qualify for additional grants but needed more help. So you decide to stand there and eat all the samples. Indeed, you see customers take a sample and come back a few minutes later to grab another. Activists and real estate experts spoke out at meetings of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, which designed and ran the Road Home program. Alvin a lifelong Manhattanite who served as a state and federal prosecutor has spent more than two decades fighting to make our communities safer and our criminal justice system fairer. Now a groundbreaking analysis of nearly 92,000 rebuilding grants statewide shows critics were right all along: Road Home shortchanged people in poor neighborhoods while giving those in wealthy neighborhoods more of what they needed. But once again, this just becomes the curious case of Alvin Bragg. The payment, Daniels said, was to buy her silence about an alleged affair she graphically described with Trump. AB: A lot of it is the juxtaposition of where we were right before the pandemic and now in the aftermath. Republicans spent much of last months election screaming from the rafters about crime in America. Market data provided by Factset. The New York Times reported that investigators from the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg questioned Ulrich as part of an illegal gambling investigation and seized his phone on Tuesday. Under New York law, prosecutors need to prove that the falsity of the business records was intended to cover up another crime. "Yeah, I have no theory as to how it showed up there, what I can tell you, it wasn't just -- and I totally agree with you in terms of the totality of Mark Pomerantz as a lawyer. Copyright 2022. Hes an internationally known, independently wealthy megastar who is now spewing antisemitic rhetoric in public spaces. They never had a chance.. 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