Cory Booker has been and will always be a gigantic phony. Pure performance art at every step. I mean he's dating Rosario Dawson, like every normal, morally grounded man of the people would do.
Jesus fucking Christ Democrats are worthless.
Kushner did a lot worse than lying to the FEC and tax evasion. Charles Kushner was pardoned by Trump for those back in 2020 but he admitted to a lot worse during the plea deal. This guy is absolute scum.
Real estate developer and political contributor Charles Kushner was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for his pleas of guilty to assisting in the filing of false tax returns, retaliating against a cooperating witness and making false statements to the Federal Election Commission, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced.
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Kushner further admitted at his plea hearing that he devised a scheme to retaliate against a cooperating witness - his sister - and her husband by having a prostitute seduce the husband and covertly filming them having sex. Kushner admitted that he paid a private investigator $25,000 to arrange for the seduction and videotaping of the cooperating witness' husband. Kushner admitted to personally recruiting the prostitute and instructing that the videotape be mailed to the cooperating witness.
Cory Booker is a two-faced liar
What was the point of all of that filibustering, if he was just going to act like a corrupt douchebag? These dudes are always slimy. Didn't he save someone from a burning house and date Rosario Dawson? What a waste. I would be surprised if he was even straight at this point.
To swindle the public into thinking he's against any of this. During that he still praised Israel.
Booker once again proving to us how much of a fake progressive he was. He’s probably getting a good laugh out of this vote over lunch with Fetterman today.
Wow I'm surprised this hasn't been scrubbed yet.
03-04-05 -- Kushner, Charles -- Sentencing -- News Release
Political Contributor and Developer Charles Kushner Sentenced to Maximum 24 Months for Witness Retaliation and Other Crimes
NEWARK - Real estate developer and political contributor Charles Kushner was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for his pleas of guilty to assisting in the filing of false tax returns, retaliating against a cooperating witness and making false statements to the Federal Election Commission, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced.
Calling Kushner's crime "disgraceful and reprehensible," U.S. District Judge Jose L. Linares sentenced Kushner to the top of the eligible range - 18 to 24 months - under the his plea agreement with the government.
"The court of law was the great equalizer for Mr. Kushner, who had obviously convinced himself that his power, influence and immense wealth put him above the law," Christie said. "We are very pleased that justice was done."
Judge Linares ordered Kushner, 50, of Livingston, to surrender to the federal Bureau of Prisons by May 9 to begin serving his sentence. Judge Linares also fined Kushner $40,000, the maximum amount as determined under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.
On Aug. 18, Kushner pleaded guilty to 16 counts of assisting in the filing of false tax returns, one count of retaliating against a cooperating witness and one count of making false statements to the FEC.
Kushner admitted then that, as chairman of Kushner Companies, he assisted in filing false tax returns claiming over $1 million in partnership charitable contributions as office expenses, causing losses to the IRS of between $200,000 and $325,000.
Kushner further admitted at his plea hearing that he devised a scheme to retaliate against a cooperating witness - his sister - and her husband by having a prostitute seduce the husband and covertly filming them having sex. Kushner admitted that he paid a private investigator $25,000 to arrange for the seduction and videotaping of the cooperating witness' husband. Kushner admitted to personally recruiting the prostitute and instructing that the videotape be mailed to the cooperating witness.
Kushner also admitted to making false statements to the Federal Election Commission which allocated campaign contributions to certain individuals who had no knowledge that contributions were being made in their names and had not consented to him making the contributions.
Christie credited Special Agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Joseph Billy, Jr.; and Special Agents of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation section, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Patricia J. Haynes.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Scott Resnik and Thomas Eicher of the Special Prosecutions Division.
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Defense Counsel:
Benjamin Brafman, Esq. New York, NY
Alfred DeCotiis, Esq. Teaneck, NJ
Jeffrey Smith, Esq. Teaneck, NJ
Corporate Democrat and slippery shit Corey Booker proves once again to be all bluster, goes against his words and again votes yes to confirm another disgraced slimeball much to the chagrin of his party and constituents
His sincerity has been lacking for awhile now. This kind of puts the final nail in. There is no reason in the world that would be okay that he approved this guy, other than he hit the wrong button by mistake.
Booker, who has been touted as a potential 2028 presidential candidate following his mammoth 25-hour speech criticizing Trump, has come under fire for siding with Republicans to confirm a man the president pardoned for crimes including tax evasion and lying to the Federal Election Commission.
He was always in big pharms pocket. He just did a good job at tricking people who didn't follow him closely because he makes himself very seen and vocal at rallies and protests that aren't against people who line his pockets.
They are all lining their pockets.
The only thing worse than Booker's ill-conceived vote is that Dem leadership is so failed at this point it can't get everyone on the same page, ever.
I need to add too, this is a fucked up headline - I don’t know why the it's ‘Ivanka’s father in law’ either. We all know Charles Kushner by his own misdeeds, don't we?
Honestly, no. Never heard of the guy before this. Other than spawning Jared, what has he done?
Oh man you should read up, he's a real piece of work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kushner
Thanks for the link. Looks like the shit apple doesn't fall far from the shit tree.
Republican nepotism.
50 / 51 Republicans voting yes.
44 / 45 Democrats voting no.
"Democrats are bad." "It's the ratchet effect." "They're all against us."
Dems care about us!
They just hate Trump as much as we do.
Reminder that neither Biden nor Kamala said no to Israel. If they aren't enemies, they're at least self-serving cowards. Biden didn't use his immunity to bolster the middle class, he used it on his own family and half-ass some debt forgiveness.
They lost two elections because they ignored wealth inequality and labor unions in favor of virtue signalling and petty culture wars that all failed (woooooke!).
All I see are two enemies fighting it out. Fuck em both. America deserves better.
I get anxiety thinking about thinking about "two sides." It's like alarm bells going off. Us vs them, simple and easy to understand explanation for current event, anything a frustrated or cynical person would generate automatically, etc.
TWO. SIIIIDES.
We need more Bernies and AOCs to primary then all.
Weird how everyone mocks the “both sides” people, even when both sides jump on board the nepotism train.
Because it's not "both sides." There are three sides, here. You've got Republicans, who are universally awful. Then you've got corporatist Democrats, who are also universally awful, although marginally less so. Finally, you have actual Democrats like AOC, who aren't awful in the slightest.
The "both sides" people never differentiate between the second two groups. What we need is more of group #3 and less of groups #1 and #2, but pretending all we have is #1 and #2 is bullshit that doesn't help anyone.
When the corporate democrats have full control of the party it effectively eliminates group #3
Let me know when the true ~~scotsman~~ democrats have power over the party.
This is just the "few bad apples" argument for police reform. Only for political reform.
I'm here for group three
The revolution is basically inevitable now. May take decades before anything meaningful changes for the people, but it's suffering is inevitable.
The dems are complicit, as a youth I was an independent. Bernie got me to register Dem, and I've never felt so betrayed, betrayed by this party constantly. I'm out. Its going to get worse before it gets better, sucks but, here weeeeee ah goooo
Let me just throw out all at once these idioms about this guy.
All talk and no action
All sizzle and no steak
All foam and no beer
All glitter and no gold
All tail and no cock
All fart and no turd
All broth and no beef
All smoke and no fire
All mask and no measure
All rhyme and no rhythm
All sound and no fury
All squawk and no scratch
All frank and no beans
Stolen from a Google search.
There was something else that came up a while back that made me look sideways at Booker, and now this.
Vote Blue No Matter Who! strikes again.
Fuck the Democrat party. Done with all of the ones in that party who approve of this fascism going on.
It's a diplomatic role. Maybe Booker was just strategically keeping him off the roster for potential SecDef nominations later.
Don’t make excuses for corrupt nepotism.
@Redditsux Turning the Executive branch into a corrupt family business again must be unacceptable to every American democrat.
Didn't Booker learn a thing from Trump's inexcusable 1st disaster term & stone-cold Jared's antisocial performance during the Coronavirus pandemic?
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/jared-kushner-let-the-markets-decide-covid-19-fate
#Trump #CriminalNetwork #Corruption #ObstructionOfUSGovernment #AmericaDeservesBetter #RuleOfLaw #Law #Justice #Democracy #Freedom #USPol #USPolitics #RaiseYourVoice #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether #WeThePeople
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