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Originally Posted by lozen
As much as Trump may be guilty as sin this is a political prosecution and nothing more if they seek jail time.
Funny I remember Obama's admin giving a sweetheart deal to HSBC with no jail time under what I think they call preferred prosecution
I am not so sure I agree with that.
I think that Trump Co has got away this long without charges was political.
I think any normie in his spots would be charged much easier from this stuff to the attempt to coerce/Intimidate election officials, etc.
In the specific instance when Trumps Lawyers are proclaiming 'this is unprecedented' I saw it explained that is because typically when you have a corporation so dead to rights guilty of these types of tax fraud, then the company, its Officers, cooperate and plead guilty in a deal that is typically fines and penalties and some sanctions.
Think of Trump University and Trump Charity, pleading guilty, accepted fines, but ALSO accepting that they will not do those types of things, including accepting prohibitions on Boards of charities, being an Officer or Director, etc, or creating new such Charities of companies.
So yes you avoid going to jail but you agree to a range of other sanctions.
In this case Trump Org would agree to NOTHING. Acknowledge NOTHING, accept no deal for those things and yet still seems to be saying 'we should get the same type of sentencing considerations'.
Why? Because to avoid Jail, as likely could be agreed to, many of those pleading guilty may be required to step out of business, (no Officer or Director status) and give up licences (Allen's C.A.), etc.
Trump would never agree to that and so would be telling Allen W and everyone, 'if we all refuse any cooperation the worst happens is we pay some fines and penalties. It only gets worse than that if one of us breaks'.
That is best for the corporation but as we see poor advice to Allen, which is why the Prosecution HAS to charge him with the full extent of the law. To not do so proves that non cooperation is the best strategy as you only end up at the same place anyway (as Trump's lawyers are calling for) which is just pay the fines and penalties.
It is important for the Prosecutors to not let that be the case. Non cooperation must extract a higher price than cooperation.
Last edited by Cuepee; 07-03-2021 at 02:24 PM.