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I think it’s important for everyone interested in this case to read how the payment came to be
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Just telling my car dealer friend, whose bid I rigged the selection process for about my tax woes. If a sack of money should appear later, supplied by my car dealer friend, who's to say that a crime occurred?
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this is embarrassing! they should be fucking embarrassed to call this a commonplace gratuity!
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Ah! Shame, you say? Hmm.
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The defendant solicited the bribe! I mean gratuity. That’s the set of facts they hung their hat on.
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Avoids any hassle of some enterprising prosecutor trying to find a way round their “bribery is fine” decision.
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All future 5-4 episodes are just going to be one of you reading the exact words from the opinion and going "can you believe this shit??" You don't have to dig to expose the bullshit; they're just laying it out in the open.
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Whom amongst us hasn’t left a check for $13K in the tip jar?
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"Look, so my cousins they've been doing some consulting jobs for this dealership, but it's like a work from home type thing. It's all been squared up by the union."
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my favorite part is that he gave 2 explanations for the money. when you took this bribe, you didn’t think through an explanation for the money in case someone asked? just mr. magoo-ing your way through a bribery
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that’s so naked that I kinda respect the chutzpah
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see also McDonnell v. US (from the 4th Cir. opinion below 👇, which SCOTUS unanimously reversed) www.ca4.uscourts.gov/docs/pdfs/15...
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lol this is absolutely comical
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why did they even bother to write an opinion
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alt text available here bsky.app/profile/flee...
re-posting with alt-text now that i'm off my phone and on laptop
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I can't read it because i can't see it without alt text. Is there a link you could share?
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re-posting with alt-text now that i'm off my phone and on laptop
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Much respect and thanks so much!!!
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It would have been so easy to make an invoice for "consulting" but they didn't even do that
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Jesus, that’s either a bribe or protection money.