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| credit Rick McKee, Augusta Chronicle Wackydoodle sez: He'll make an offer he can't refuse! |
The indictment of long-time conservative activist¹ and Trump ally, Roger Stone, has been expected, and was unsealed on Friday. Stone was arrested in the pre-dawn darkness by unpaid FBI agents at his home in Ft. Lauderdale. The seven count indictment--including witness tampering--says Stone told Trump senior campaign officials about future release of Wikileaks material damaging to his political opponent. Stone replied in response to a senior official's email (identified as Steve Bannon, according to the New York Times) that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had a “serious security concern” but that the group would start releasing “a load every week going forward." The intercepted emails were given to Wikileaks by a Russian on-line intelligence operation code-named Guicifer 2.0. Stone used fringe-journalist Randy Credico as his intermediary to Julian Assange's Wikileaks organization. Credico is the Congressional witness Stone is accused of encouraging to lie during his testimony. Stone told Credico to "do a Frank Pentangili", referring to the classic mob movie, The Godfather, Part II. Who could possibly have imagined that a unprofessional candidate for the land's highest government office would emulate a fictional mobster² while conducting his campaign and presidency? Not US Person!
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| credit: M. Streeter, Savannah Morning News BC Idonwanna sez; Consigliere & Liz full of buffalo dung! |
² Where did Individual I learn the ways of American mobsters--not all from Hollywood movies that is certain. Trump was represented for many years by lawyer Roy Cohn who made his name as the chief aide to Senator McCarthy, and later as a leading mob attorney. Cohen met Individual I at a Manhattan club in the '70s where the scion of a real estate fortune had a major legal problem--prosecution by the Justice Department for housing discrimination. Trump's company would red-line rental applications with a "C" for "colored". Cohn settled the case, but his client never admitted responsibility. Trump was immersed in the Manhattan real estate market for many years, a market with considerable mob participation. An example: Trump Tower in Manhattan was built with concrete, an unusual choice of materials since most Manhattan buildings of the '80s were built with structural steel. The mob controlled the concrete business, and the construction unions in New York, so favors were required to get concrete poured on time. Cohen introduced his client to his mafioso connections; Trump subsequently thanked Cohn for his help getting the project built. But wait, there's more: The previous building on the site, the Bonwit Teller building, was demolished using illegal Polish immigrants brought in from Rochester, NY; they were never paid for their labor. Individual I's instincts match Roy Cohn's--always on the offensive, never admitting guilt, and doing whatever it takes to win. ; A documentary film producer said of Cohn, "he used his brilliance for mostly the dark arts of manipulation and self-enrichment" Sound familiar? It should because Hair Further is still using the same cruel tactics with his current employees. Undocumented workers at his Westchester Golf Club, despite being exemplary employees, were brought on the carpet and fired one by one. Now the fired workers are speaking out, saying Trump fully knew they did not have proper immigration papers when he hired them. Individual I at one point declared Cohn to he his "best friend". But he was not in sight when Cohn was finally disbarred, not long before he died of AIDS.