March 2015
This, by @marcacaputo.bsky.social on Marco Rubio and the Tallahassee house he & his good friend David Rivera co-owned for ten years, is a good read.
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March 2015
This, by @marcacaputo.bsky.social on Marco Rubio and the Tallahassee house he & his good friend David Rivera co-owned for ten years, is a good read.
1. Find statements of participants in the FARA scheme to be admissible under Rule 801(d)(2). 2. Find that the online news articles that the FARA-scheme participants cited in their written communications are non-hearsay under the circumstances of this case. 3. Admit certified domestic records and records generated by an electronic process or system pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 803(6), 902(11) and 902(13). 4. Admit Rivera’s deposition testimony in the civil action between Interamerican Consulting, Inc. (“Interamerican”) and PDV USA, Inc. (“PDV USA”) in the Southern District of New York (“SDNY”). 5. Admit summaries of voluminous materials as evidence pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 1006. 6. Permit the government to ask hypothetical questions in inquiring whether its witnesses (including government officials) would have interacted with the defendants regarding Venezuela matters had they known that defendants were being compensated by the Venezuelan state oil company and its U.S. affiliates pursuant to an agreement approved by senior Venezuelan officials. 7. Preclude the defendants from introducing self-serving out-of-court statements. 8. Preclude the introduction into evidence of law enforcement interview reports. 9. Preclude defendants from offering evidence or argument about recent changes in the Justice Department’s FARA enforcement priorities. 10. Preclude defendants from offering evidence or arguing that this prosecution is unwarranted due to the government’s unfair or selective enforcement of FARA. 11. Preclude defendants from offering evidence for which they did not make the proper disclosures by rule, including expert testimony. 12. Exclude evidence and argument relating to a public-authority defense. 13. Preclude defendants from offering evidence or argument that their actions were in conformance with U.S. foreign policy.
At times in defense counsel’s discussions with the government, in Rivera’s statements regarding the PDV USA litigation, and in the defense’s arguments for dismissal to DOJ, defendants or their counsel have suggested that the unregistered political activities described in the indictment did not give rise to criminal liability because such activities were approved by senior U.S. government officials. To date, however, the defense has yet to disclose any discovery or provide information tending to establish any component of the defenses of public authority or entrapment by estoppel. See United States v. Alvarado, 808 F.3d 474, 484–86 (11th Cir. 2015) (describing these defenses and their required elements).
Among the things DOJ is trying to prevent former Marco Rubio roomie David Rivera from raising in his FARA trial is that top Trump 1 officials knew and approved of his efforts to secretly broker closer ties with Venezuela's Delcy Rodriguez.
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The PEDO just lifted oil sanctions on Russia. Anyone can now buy their oil with impunity & at RECORD high prices, flooding the Russian banks with cash to continue war for many many more years.
Trump has just handed a potential death sentence to Ukraine, while begging for their help! #cdnpoli
Just tell her it's about anal sex.
And you'll be fine.
This must be why the Republican controlled VA is cutting veterans benefits. They’re afraid that all those military members who were killed are walking around without legs and STILL getting VA benefits. #RepublicansAreImbeciles
Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.
Get ready to learn a lot more about private credit and software-as-a-service. Get ready like it's 2007.
I wish I could say I was surprised
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OK, here's our story on the wild situation in Manhattan today where the Justice Department settled a monopolization case against Live Nation without telling its own lawyers.
We got one week of testimony that was going really badly for the company. But corruption won out.
prospect.org/2026/03/09/l...
CNN airs compilation of JD Vance on the campaign trail saying he would keep the U.S. out of war in the Middle East. "We're going to stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world. Our interests are very much in not going to war with Iran." #IranWar
Today is a great day to listen to the rain and eat pussy.
I was against JCPOA, but once it was in effect, it was the only game in town, and we should have stuck with it. Trump cancelling it was a gift to Iran and pissed off our allies for no tangible gain.
Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC X.com The American Embassy is being evacuated in Riyadh because of sustained attacks by Iran against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is my understanding the Kingdom refuses to use their capable military as a part of an effort to end the barbaric and terrorist Iranian regime who has terrorized the region and killed 7 Americans. Question - why should America do a defense agreement with a country like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that is unwilling to join a fight of mutual interest? Americans are dying and the U.S. is spending billions to dislodge the terrorist Iranian regime that threatens the region. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia seems to be issuing statements and doing things in the background that are marginally helpful, but unwilling to participate in military operations to end the reign of terror coming out of Iran. Hopefully Gulf Cooperation Council countries will get more involved as this fight is in their backyard. If you are not willing to use your military now, when are you willing to use it? Hopefully this changes soon. If not, consequences will follow.
1. Is Lindsey Graham the U.S. Secretary of State now?
Is he coordinating these threats against a U.S. ally with the White House?
Now he is demanding that a top U.S. ally enter a regime-change war?
And then threatening, “Hopefully this changes soon… if not, consequences will follow.”
They got jelly in the belly.
Real scared.
Jody porn
If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice
Operation Kimbo Slice
I don't need a talking pile of dirt to tell me my wife is untethered.
Pogroms, but it's for a good cause this time
You blame the press, for not clapping loud enough to keep Tinkerbell alive
What kind of business genius do you have to be to try to fight rupert murdoch for his aging audience of inbred monkeys?
Have you seen FOX's advertisers?
There simply is no audience for the shit that she and her wife vomit forth every day, certainly no audience that advertisers want.
Earlier on Sunday, the Jerusalem Post reported that the UAE had struck an Iranian desalination plant in its first attack on the country, citing an unidentified Israeli source. The paper later cited a UAE official denying the report. Ali Al Nuaimi, chairman of the UAE legislature’s Defense, Interior and Foreign Affairs Committee, posted on X in Farsi that the UAE “categorically denies” reports about its targeting of desalination facilities in Iran, “and emphasizes that it has no intention of entering into any conflict or escalating tensions.”
Last week, the Jerusalem Post reported that Qatar struck Iran, which was a lie. Today, Jerusalem Post said UAE struck the desalination plant in Iran, which is a lie. Israel is trying to pull the rest of the gulf into the war.
the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Good thing they kept the government out of the way.
How's it taste now, Bubba?
Another day of interest on the tariffs Trump collected and refuses to give back. American consumers paid the tariffs, American taxpayers pay the interest on Trump holding onto the money as long as possible. Every day the bill goes up.
remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again
Last July. Art of the Deal.
Yeah saw that
