The scandalous conduct of New York State’s authorized forms within the matter of President Trump’s actual property victimless non-crime has attracted widespread derision: You Don’t Should Love Trump to Chuckle at Letitia James’s ‘Fraud’ Case, by John Tamny, Forbes.com, November 9, 2023. Lately, AP posted a definitive evaluation: Dissolving Trump’s enterprise empire would stand aside in historical past of NY fraud legislation, by Bernard Condon, January 29, 2024.
“Stand aside” is seemingly AP-speak for “completely unprecedented.” Condon’s article piece is a crushing demonstration of this atrocity and its alarming implications:
Trump’s case stands aside in a big approach: It’s the one huge enterprise discovered that was threatened with a shutdown with out a displaying of apparent victims and main losses.…some authorized specialists fear that if the decide goes out of his technique to punish the previous president with that worst-case situation, it may make it simpler for courts to wipe out corporations sooner or later.
College of Michigan legislation professor William Thomas says “Those that need to see Donald Trump undergo by any means needed…threat ignoring the very dedication to a rule of legislation that they accuse him of flouting.”
Usually talking, attorneys not troubled with Trump Derangement Syndrome appear speechless with shock over this unbelievable abuse of the authorized system[The Curious Fraud Case Against Trump Just Got ‘Curiouser’, by Jonathan Turley, jonathanturley.org, December 3, 2023].
College students of historical past are much less shocked. Political Tribunals masquerading as Legislation Courts had been normal beneath Communist rule. Dreaming up methods to confiscate the property of political opponents was frequent in cruder instances. As illustrated in Colleen McCullough’s Masters of Rome sequence of novels, it was normal process within the final years of the Roman Republic. And, after all, it was largely to cease this exercise by the Crown that the English Barons compelled Magna Carta on King John in 1215.
I doubt if any of the ancestors of NYAG James’ authorized hit squad had been inside a thousand miles of England in 1215.
However there could also be extra behind this authorized piracy than Trump Derangement Syndrome.
New York Lawyer Common James appears to have a factor about actual property, She purchased a 4-unit condominium constructing in Brooklyn as way back as 2001[Letitia James Breaks City Rules With Rental Property, Records Show, by James Fanelli, DNAInfo.com, June 9, 2014]after working for simply two years as an Assistant NY Lawyer Common in control of the Brooklyn regional workplace. Her actions within the sector haven’t gone unquestioned: Inflating Residence Worth: Letitia James Underneath Hearth, Griffin Information 5 , October 31, 2023.
If Letitia James Internet Value [Forbes] $15 Million Belongings by John Clauser, Caclubindia.com, October 2, 2023 is to be credited (and it doesn’t seem to have been challenged) James has elevated her internet price from $1 million in 2010 to $15 million immediately partly by a number of property purchases:
Each certainly one of these properties was bought beneath particular circumstances; some even declare the costs had been considerably decrease than market charges.
(We now have typically questioned if James’ envy that VDARE.com purchased and is now headquartered in a Fort has triggered her willpower to subpoena us to demise.)
Observe that if the James/Engoron gang do get management of Trump’s actual property holdings, they’ll have at their disposal a number of the best properties on the planet.
A real risk exists that they could promote them for cents on the greenback to associates, probably together with (albeit effectively disguised) themselves.
The legally-sanctioned looting of the Trump Group has already begun. Retired Clinton-appointed Federal Choose Barbara S. Jones, who snagged the place of “unbiased monitor” of the operation in December, has already billed $2.6 million: ‘That is actually a joke’: Trump lawyer blasts unbiased monitor’s report forward of fraud trial ruling By Peter Charalambous ABC Information January 29, 2024. Congratulate Barbara S Jones—E mail her. Please be well mannered.]
Sadly, there’s ample precedent for large plundering by authorities appointees.
Choose David L. Bazelon was Chief Justice of the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the already notorious DC Circuit 1962-78. In response to the guide The Actual Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Introduced Nixon Down by Geoff Shepard, Bazelon was the mastermind behind the judicial coup which reversed one of many biggest election landslides in Presidential historical past—arguably a precursor of the Deep State coup in opposition to Trump.
In 2019, the intrepid and extremely industrious Ron Unz posted an essay with the informative sub-headline:
How a Younger Syndicate Lawyer from Chicago Earned a Fortune Looting the Property of the Japanese-Individuals, then Lived Fortunately Ever After as America’s Most Revered Civil Libertarian Federal Appellate Court docket Choose[The Power of Organized Crime The Unz Review, July 19, 2019 ]
For our functions, the important thing part is Looting the Property of the Japanese-American Nisei:
…by early 1942 FDR signed an government order transport some 120,000 Japanese-Individuals off to grim focus camps…In consequence, they misplaced almost all of the property that they had steadily accrued over two generations, most of which was both seized or in any other case ended up in authorities arms…Following the top of the battle, all this property wanted to be bought off…Chicago’s highly effective political machine deployed its appreciable political clout to position the gross sales course of within the arms of David L. Bazelon, a younger Chicago lawyer and main Democratic fund-raiser with deep Syndicate ties…he organized the sale of property for a fraction of their actual worth to his circle of Chicago buddies and associates, typically apparently receiving a secret slice of the profitable possession stakes in return.
…As an excessive instance, Bazelon virtually instantly bought Chicago’s Henry Crown a twenty-six thousand acre California mine website, containing tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} price of coal, for a mere $150,000
It appears believable that Bazelon obtained quiet kickbacks totaling many hundreds of thousands or maybe even tens of hundreds of thousands in present-day {dollars} in change for his very favorable distribution of billions in authorities property to the community of beneficiaries who shared his roots within the Chicago Syndicate.
Unz depends closely on the 2006 guide Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Legal Associates Grew to become America’s Hidden Energy Brokers by Gus Russo.
In response to Unz within the part cited above, Bazelon escaped IRS curiosity by getting himself appointed to the DC Appeals Court docket in 1949. He went on to have interaction in Leftist sabotage of America for nearly 30 years, turning into invulnerable as a Leftist hero.
Letitia James for Supreme Court docket?
VDARE.com has taken some discover of Bazelon up to now. In Bazelon Dynasty Nonetheless Working to Elevate the Homicide Price , Steve Sailer commented:
David Bazelon was one of the most important architects of the horrific crime wave of the Sixties into the Nineties that destroyed so many as soon as nice American cities.
So, in 21st Century America, is it doable a gang of authorized functionaries may get management of and loot the property of one of the wildly hated males in American historical past?
Who would cease them?
E mail Patrick Cleburne.
