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Sessions drains a slush fund
Firing Pheet Bharara as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York was the first step toward ending a corrupt slush fund scheme and restoring a constitutional government.
Bharara was crooked politician who instead of sending corrupt CEO to prison for their misdeeds accepted payoffs. Oh not directly. He was not that stupid. No, Bharara allowed the crooked CEOs to buy their way out of jail by "giving" billions to Democratic Party-approved "charities."
This scheme dodged the Constitution, which holds that Congress writes the budget, not the president. (This is why the opposition always declares a presidential budget proposal DOA, because by definition it is.)
To give you an idea of how big Bharara's bunco game was, I offer this paragraph from today's story in the Washington Post:
In 2013, the Department of Justice reached settlements with several banks, ranging from $7 billion (Citigroup) to $16.65 billion (Bank of America) related to the selling of residential mortgage-backed securities. As part of those settlements, the department required banks to pay approximately $3 billion to third-party groups, such as NeighborWorks and state legal aid organizations, according to Justice officials.The message to business was clear. America was a Banana republic now, so if you pay off El Presidente and his henchman like Bharara, you can ignore the law all you want with impunity.
Don Surber: Sessions drains a slush fund
Firing Pheet Bharara as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York was the first step toward ending a corrupt slush fund scheme and restoring a constitutional government.
Bharara was crooked politician who instead of sending corrupt CEO to prison for their misdeeds accepted payoffs. Oh not directly. He was not that stupid. No, Bharara allowed the crooked CEOs to buy their way out of jail by "giving" billions to Democratic Party-approved "charities."
This scheme dodged the Constitution, which holds that Congress writes the budget, not the president. (This is why the opposition always declares a presidential budget proposal DOA, because by definition it is.)
To give you an idea of how big Bharara's bunco game was, I offer this paragraph from today's story in the Washington Post:
In 2013, the Department of Justice reached settlements with several banks, ranging from $7 billion (Citigroup) to $16.65 billion (Bank of America) related to the selling of residential mortgage-backed securities. As part of those settlements, the department required banks to pay approximately $3 billion to third-party groups, such as NeighborWorks and state legal aid organizations, according to Justice officials.The message to business was clear. America was a Banana republic now, so if you pay off El Presidente and his henchman like Bharara, you can ignore the law all you want with impunity.
Don Surber: Sessions drains a slush fund
