a felony, then he won’t be allowed to vote in November?

for this clown. His last guilty plea for his crimes got him off light with a sentence of 5 months in the Rikers Infirmary and he was let out in 3. This will be the same. So for having spent decades participating in fraud in the billions, enriching himself and his family members by tens of millions of dollars by way of his crimes, failing to pay taxes and then committing perjury in related legal proceedings he gets to walk away and keep most of the money after only serving a total of 6 months in protective custody.

All that the man did and supposedly 6 months and repaying $2 million in back taxes fixes it all. People get more than that for being a repeat offender for shoplifting. They also don't get to keep the merchandise.

when he got off light with his plea deal. Why would a prosecutor believe him this time. His testimony in court would be worthless because all a defense attorney needs to do to impeach his credibility is bring up his previous perjury.

then it would have to be backed up with something concrete.

I don't know why his sentence was light. I hoped that a light sentence was due to him cooperating.

after promising to be truthful isn't cooperating. They never should have made the first agreement with him not to go after his kids who were neck deep also. They should have come back at him this time and said they were going after his kids with everything they could because he lied and screwed them around. This wasn't just one count of perjury. It was multiple. It deserved way longer.

while doing the post and looked it up. She lost a great deal of power and momentum but did manage to come back. I used to lover her appearances on Letterman.

A lesson to anyone who supports and lies for TFA you will be screwed. Just think how many people have gone to jail because of him? Easily over a thousand plus ( counting the Jan 6th traitors).

He's been fully complicit in the Trump Org fraud since Fred was in charge. He's the brain behind the bluster.

Deserves years in prison.

Drag his ass off in chains like they would do one of us.
If he had admitted this earlier we wouldn’t be here.

Two books of rules:

One for the "well connected" ... wealthy crooks.

Another one for the rest of the population.

How 'bout dat??

with a potential for 7 years on each. But he gets 30 days for each and he'll only serve for 3 just like the last time. This isn't just light it is a mockery in light of the sweetheart plea he got the first time and how he violated that with his perjury. If he had testified truthfully to Engoron it has to be asked if Engoron could have justified yanking the business licenses and ordered it along with the rest of the judgement. I think he would have.

Did Bragg, who tried to kill the Manhattan case, sandbag Engoron about the perjury? Was Bragg trying to keep the perjury matter quiet until Engoron had issued his judgement? Did someone in Bragg's office not like the BS game being played and "leak" that Weaselnuts was going down for perjury through the the Manhattan DA before the Engoron ruling? Does it not smell to high heaven that everybody played dumb when Engoron demanded to know what people knew about this? Did people on the defense team take part in this provision of perjury to Engoron? At the very least Engoron should order the full investigation of this submission of perjured testimony and then denial anybody knew anything about it. This "discovery of perjured testimony and plea agreement" didn't all happen in just a couple of days. Bragg knew about this from the time Weaselnuts submitted false testimony to Engoron. I do not trust Bragg and haven't since the moment he tried to kill the hush money/improper accounting case. I've always thought he only brought it back because of pressure. I hope I'm wrong but he had the smell of a rat all over him from the start. Will his office only give a half-hearted half-assed effort at trial?

before Engoron suddenly demanded some more details in February...

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/19/trump-fraud-trial-evidence-weisselberg.html

than February the conclusion that Bragg had in fact determined there was evidence enough to charge was only out there later when Engoron asked about it. I think James did not want to delay the trial for a possibly lengthy back and forth with investigation, denials, motions, denials and appeal of denials just on this issue. I am not aware if a judge on his own can stop a trial, once underway, to do a whole perjury investigation.

Since that portion of the case was about damages it is unlikely, given all of what Engoron saw by that point, that he relied upon much that Weaselnuts said. But the idea of proven fact of knowingly and purposely committing perjury is similar in some ways to an aggravating factor since the witness didn't just "observe" what he lied about but was an integral part of the ongoing fraud. So like an aggravating factor in sentencing is why I raised the question of whether Engoron could have used an admission of perjury despite a previous plea deal to be truthful and cooperate to base a justification for revocation of the business licenses. He did back off from that in his final judgement.

Speculation to be sure about that but he seemed mighty hot about people not being proactive in disclosing the actual findings and happenings in Bragg's office relative to the perjury. So accusations in late October but nothing of conclusive findings until way later by Bragg and then when it does come out people are doing the Sgt. Schultz routine. Like I said I don't know if Engoron himself could have called a halt to the trial while an investigation of the accusation of perjury were investigated and determined factually. I don't know of a case where that happened mid-trial. Usually perjury proceedings would come post-trial. If a judge moves to do an investigation of a defense witness mid-trial and the allegation is unsubstantiated it would hand the defense a big club to claim prejudicial bias and ask for a mistrial. It might not be granted but it certainly can muck things up along the way and be an appellate issue. Typically the system is supposed to work that if you feel a witness is lying you attack the testimony at the time it's given in front of the judge or jury so they, as the trier of fact, can determine credibility. Otherwise we would have trials starting and stopping all the time for "corrections", recalling witnesses etc. along with all kinds of requests to get things in at the end.

Part of that is of course to keep trials from being fishing expeditions and to have a legal system where you bring charges you already have the evidence to prove. The state went ahead with it's case and it's proof and that's all good. I think Engoron was most focused on the defense part/response to the perjury issue since Weaselnuts was the prosecution witness as a result of his earlier plea deal. Did the defense likely orchestrate this gambit with the witness? A good hunch that may never be known.

I don't know how much Bragg had to do with any of it but they obviously didn't realize something was "wrong" until the testimony happened and of all entities - the business media (Forbes) - called it. So in terms of expediency, they kept things moving anyway rather than bog down into the weeds given how much work putting that together took.

If anyone, I think ALL of the previous D.A.'s going back to the '70s from Cyrus Vance, Jr. on back (as well as the AGs before James - the longest-serving one being Robert Abrams), let 45 slide for 50 years. The statute of limitations obviously restricted going back that far with these current cases, but given that he ended up elected to the country's top office, suddenly meant these turning-the-blind-eye moves in NY came came back to haunt (including supposedly being hamstrung by the 45 DOJ as well - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/manhattan-da-trump-stormy-daniels-indictment-b2312978.html).

in 2016 I was astounded that the NY media were all running around him like a puppy when they knew very well these behaviors and activities. It was no secret in Manhattan how crooked he was. You are spot on about the DA's and I would go a step further and go to the various agencies like the assessors, building inspection, building permits, labor departments, liquor licensing, restaurant inspection etc. and say it is impossible to believe that as crooked as the organization has been that they weren't paying off people to look the other way, give them what they wanted or to run interference for them.

the "8 years of prosecutorial protection" afforded by this guy -

the criticism he deserved.