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Mob. Mob. Mob. Mob and Judges all the way up to the Supreme Court.
Lincoln's Bible on the Mob and judges. I think this is kind of important since the sitting POTUS laundered money for the Mob for decades.
Also, LB is one of the people who brought us http://www.citjourno.org/
I did not post every twitter post in the thread here, and highly recommend going to the thread for the documentation.
Tonight we return to history. In this moment of retiring Justice Kennedy, the shady dealings of his offspring, & the onslaught of judges that "Cocaine" Mitch & Donnie "Two Scoops" are appointing, I've been asked to do a piece on the Mob & judges. "But, Your Honor..." - THREAD -
1/ If you have a pulse, you're aware of some basic mob tactics (& I hope I've helped to sort lore from reality). The most basic tactic of all is to compromise law enforcement & politicians. This is how one can run an illegal empire. But the jewel of all jewels to compromise...
... snip
6/ There's a lot more case study, but you get it. The mob has its judges. They GROOM them, often, from within the family. You know my saying, #FollowTheLawyers? Well, that leads us to judges as well. In fact, it leads us right to a now-retiring judge on the US Supreme Court...
7/ To get to him - to truly see it, you gotta through the mobsters. That's how it works. And Justice Kennedy's mobster was his daddy's mobster: the "Governor of the Legislature" - "The Boss of California" - the "Godfather" of Mickey Cohen. ARTIE SAMISH.
8/ Samish was a sh*tbird of the highest order. He did the kind of racketeering that Fred Trump and Roy Cohn were so good at: lobbying a state legislature by compromising the locals. THAT is how you get sh*t done. Samish represented the liquor companies. Because... of course...
... snip
11/ I mean... Samish was just a HUGE mobster, on every level. He was. There is no disputing it. And like all big mob bosses, he had his own attorney. Someone whose solo practice revolved around him. Take a gander. That's Justice Kennedy's dad.
12/ So, Samish goes to prison for the one thing that the Feds were great at popping mobsters for: tax evasion, of course. https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/14/archives/arthur-h-samish-a-coast-lobbyist-boss-of-california-is-dead.html … And then, years later Samish croaks. As does his consigliere, Kennedy. And all those Samish atty-client privileged files...
13/ And all those business relationships of Samish's - all the other mobsters, & corporations of the mob, & individuals compromised by the mob - fell into the hands of...Kennedy's son, Anthony. Yep. This was the law practice that young Tony Kennedy took over. He was a mob lawyer.
... snip
15/ Now, to avoid the uncomfortable discussion of mob families would be just a bullish*t thing to do, at this point. Our democracy is at stake. So, I'm not sugarcoating a thing. I'm also not going to point to anything but that which I can source. All that above? That's sourced...
16/ But let's get real. When you're born into a mafia family, it's very likely (but not definitive) that you continue in the family's work. It is what it is. I, personally, cannot avoid this history of Kennedy's - when considering what his "retirement" is enabling...
17/ I don't know why he picked this moment to leave the bench & open up yet another seat for Trump & the completely compromised @GOP to fill.
I don't know why his son approved Trump's loans at Deutsche bank, & what that might mean (other than Russian mob money-laundering 😜
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Maybe someone paid him a visit, and let him know it was time to go. Maybe that person(s) was even a good guy, because a bunch of sh*t is about to go down. I don't know. I really don't. BUT, I do know...
19/ That ARTIE SAMISH WAS A HUGE MOBSTER, WITH A HUGE EMPIRE, & Justice Kennedy inherited all his legacy to keep. Because the mob trusted him implicitly, or they would have never let him take over his father's practice. He was theirs. And then, he chose to become a judge. - END -
Link to tweet
1/ If you have a pulse, you're aware of some basic mob tactics (& I hope I've helped to sort lore from reality). The most basic tactic of all is to compromise law enforcement & politicians. This is how one can run an illegal empire. But the jewel of all jewels to compromise...
... snip
6/ There's a lot more case study, but you get it. The mob has its judges. They GROOM them, often, from within the family. You know my saying, #FollowTheLawyers? Well, that leads us to judges as well. In fact, it leads us right to a now-retiring judge on the US Supreme Court...
7/ To get to him - to truly see it, you gotta through the mobsters. That's how it works. And Justice Kennedy's mobster was his daddy's mobster: the "Governor of the Legislature" - "The Boss of California" - the "Godfather" of Mickey Cohen. ARTIE SAMISH.
8/ Samish was a sh*tbird of the highest order. He did the kind of racketeering that Fred Trump and Roy Cohn were so good at: lobbying a state legislature by compromising the locals. THAT is how you get sh*t done. Samish represented the liquor companies. Because... of course...
... snip
11/ I mean... Samish was just a HUGE mobster, on every level. He was. There is no disputing it. And like all big mob bosses, he had his own attorney. Someone whose solo practice revolved around him. Take a gander. That's Justice Kennedy's dad.
12/ So, Samish goes to prison for the one thing that the Feds were great at popping mobsters for: tax evasion, of course. https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/14/archives/arthur-h-samish-a-coast-lobbyist-boss-of-california-is-dead.html … And then, years later Samish croaks. As does his consigliere, Kennedy. And all those Samish atty-client privileged files...
13/ And all those business relationships of Samish's - all the other mobsters, & corporations of the mob, & individuals compromised by the mob - fell into the hands of...Kennedy's son, Anthony. Yep. This was the law practice that young Tony Kennedy took over. He was a mob lawyer.
... snip
15/ Now, to avoid the uncomfortable discussion of mob families would be just a bullish*t thing to do, at this point. Our democracy is at stake. So, I'm not sugarcoating a thing. I'm also not going to point to anything but that which I can source. All that above? That's sourced...
16/ But let's get real. When you're born into a mafia family, it's very likely (but not definitive) that you continue in the family's work. It is what it is. I, personally, cannot avoid this history of Kennedy's - when considering what his "retirement" is enabling...
17/ I don't know why he picked this moment to leave the bench & open up yet another seat for Trump & the completely compromised @GOP to fill.
I don't know why his son approved Trump's loans at Deutsche bank, & what that might mean (other than Russian mob money-laundering 😜
.
Maybe someone paid him a visit, and let him know it was time to go. Maybe that person(s) was even a good guy, because a bunch of sh*t is about to go down. I don't know. I really don't. BUT, I do know...
Link to tweet
19/ That ARTIE SAMISH WAS A HUGE MOBSTER, WITH A HUGE EMPIRE, & Justice Kennedy inherited all his legacy to keep. Because the mob trusted him implicitly, or they would have never let him take over his father's practice. He was theirs. And then, he chose to become a judge. - END -
Link to tweet
I highly recommend going to the twitter thread at the beginning of the post. Also, the unrolled version is here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1034962771824140289.html?refreshed=1535596964
