Justice Department investigating potential presidential pardon bribery scheme, court records reveal

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Justice Department investigating potential presidential pardon bribery scheme, court records reveal
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN

Updated 6:36 PM ET, Tue December 1, 2020

 (CNN)The Justice Department is investigating a potential crime related to funneling money to the White House or related political committee in exchange for a presidential pardon, according to court records unsealed Tuesday in federal court.
The case is the latest legal twist in the waning days of President Donald Trump's administration after several of his top advisers have been convicted of federal criminal charges and as the possibility rises of Trump giving pardons to those who've been loyal to him.

The disclosure is in 20 pages of partially redacted documents made public by the DC District Court on Tuesday afternoon. The records show Chief Judge Beryl Howell's review in August of a request from prosecutors to access documents obtained in a search as part of a bribery-for-pardon investigation.

The filings don't reveal a timeline of the alleged scheme, or any names of people potentially involved, except that communications between people including at least one lawyer were seized from an office that was raided sometime before the end of this summer.

No one appears to have been publicly charged with a related crime to date.

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/01/politics/presidential-pardon-justice-department/index.html?utm_content=2020-12-01T23%3A28%3A24&utm_source=twcnnbrk&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social

[mystery-ak]

No wonder Barr can't find any fraud in the election he's too busy with this shit!

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Just think if Barr was 1/10 as interested in Hunter Biden......

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Trump smacks down wishful Adam Schiff, calls DOJ’s bribery-for-pardon probe ‘Fake News!’

President Donald Trump has summarily dismissed allegations that the Department of Justice is investigating a bribery-for-pardon scheme that conspiracy theorists, including Adam Schiff, have suggested directly involves him and his White House officials.

This week the D.C. District Court unsealed documents from an August case in which federal prosecutors had sought access to certain seized items — iPhones, iPads, etc. — that they believed contained evidence of a “secret lobbying scheme.”

The scheme involved at least two individuals whom prosecutors said “were acting as unregistered lobbyists trying to persuade White House officials to grant an individual a pardon or commutation,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

More notably, the scheme allegedly involved “a substantial political contribution in exchange for a presidential pardon or reprieve of sentence,” the documents themselves say.

In laymen’s terms, two people allegedly tried to bribe the White House to pardon someone.

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Chairman Schiff: "An attorney with a client was representing that client not in a legal way, but attempting to, through the use of bribery, secure a pardon ... That itself would be a crime. If the president was involved, he would not be immune from prosecution for it." @MSNBC
5:45 PM · Dec 1, 2020

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