Trump may end up at Rikers Island by the end of 2023 if he loses re-election: legal experts
'If President Donald Trump loses re-election, he could find himself the first ex-president to be charged with a crime.
More than a dozen investigations are already under way against Trump and his associates, so his potential legal exposure is "breathtaking," according to New York Magazine columnist Jeff Wise.
"You might think, given all the crimes Trump has bragged about committing during his time in office, that the primary path to prosecuting him would involve the U.S. Justice Department," Wise wrote. "If Joe Biden is sworn in as president in January, his attorney general will inherit a mountain of criminal evidence against Trump accumulated by Robert Mueller and a host of inspectors general and congressional oversight committees. After the DOJ's incoming leadership is briefed on any sensitive matters contained in the evidence, federal prosecutors will move forward with their investigations of Trump."
Trump could try to pardon himself on his way out of the White House, which would certainly complicate matters, but Wise believes that Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. would likely charge the president with falsifying business records and tax fraud.
"To build a fraud case against Trump, Vance subpoenaed his financial records," Wise wrote. "But those records alone won't be enough: To secure a conviction, Vance will need to convince a jury not only that Trump cheated on his taxes but that he intended to do so."
Unfortunately for the president, his former attorney Michael Cohen and longtime accountant Allen Weisselberg have already signaled they're willing to cooperate with prosecutors and both would have strong evidence to prove Trump's intent.'>>>
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-may-end-rikers-island-164420425.html?
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)napi21
(45,806 posts)able to issue pardons is the Governor, & those in NY WON'T be pardoned by Cuomo!
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)as flight threat. Then, indicted and convicted on a simple, uncorruptible, criminal count.
Let him appeal from the imperious throne of his jail cell.
calimary
(81,264 posts)I think if Biden wins, the minute hes sworn in he should immediately revoke trumps passports so he cant leave the country. And plans should immediately click into place to watch the airports, railways, and seaports so he cant sneak away. Be watching the limo services, too. No escape. If he can get to the Crimea hed probably come under Putins protection. Just my guess.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)crazier, and even crazier. Republicons, individually, then, have some calculations to make . . . [boggles the mind]
BComplex
(8,051 posts)We need to get crooks out of government.
Scruffy1
(3,256 posts)After the 2008 debacle he went after one bank. It was a very small ethnicly Chines bank which had sold no bad mortgages. In fact, the issue was the customers had understated their income on mortgage applications. He spent $10,000,000 prosecuting them and went 0 for 80 on the verdicts. Meanwhile none of the major banks or their officers were charged with anything. i assume he is either incompetent or corrupt, or at least open to political persuasion.
BComplex
(8,051 posts)He's trump/barr's hero.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)elleng
(130,901 posts)Been watching, NOT betting on the timing.
Cicada
(4,533 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)who will be left to tell us what illegalities are going on? Crooks are the eyes and ears.
keithbvadu2
(36,802 posts)Trump: 'Do my friends Russian and Saudi Arabia have extradition treaties with America?'
WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)Trump won't hang around long after he's beaten in November. My guess is he'll get his ass out of this country before 12:01 on January 20th. I'm sure Putin has a place for him.
BComplex
(8,051 posts)a huge voice of division, fascism, Nazism, racism, misogyny, and hate. He will be the "greatest victim of election theft the world has ever seen"..."everybody is saying so"....
It will be on 24/7/365, and the media will keep it rolling.
Grins
(7,217 posts)If you cheated you intended to cheat.
Mistakes are another matter; an I did what?
But to cheat takes work and intent.
alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)BlueWavePsych
(2,635 posts)chriscan64
(1,789 posts)will be drowned out by the sounds of paper shredders. We will still be scotch taping documents together in 2023.
electric_blue68
(14,891 posts)would love to see this!
Not sure it'll happen, or just timing is off.
NYS AG Lettisha James - maybe she can push Vance?
Definitely have to keep an eye for him and family trying to escape as said above - by sea, air or land.
I don't know if Putin would take him in since he's no longer of use to him.