Speaker Johnson: Ghislaine Maxwell ‘Deserves Life in Prison’

This post was originally published on here Speaking to “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson spoke to NBC News’ Kristen Welker. The Speaker indicated that he would be in favor of a harsher sentence for Jeffrey Epstein’s factotum Ghislaine Maxwell, but demurred when asked about the possibility of a presidential…

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Smartmatic Accused of Bribing Top Election Official, Using Bribery As a ‘Routine Business Practice’

This post was originally published on here Federal prosecutors in Miami have accused Roger Piñate, co-founder of the Florida-based voting technology company Smartmatic, of bribing a top Venezuelan election official to secure a contract. Advertisement Piñate is accused of transferring a luxury Caracas residence to Venezuela’s former elections chief, Tibisay Lucena Ramírez, in order to…

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Shadowy Nonprofit Files Attacks on Government Lawyers Defending the Administration

This post was originally published on here Three civil service lawyers in the Department of Justice have been hit with misconduct complaints for representing the Trump administration in court. A nonprofit funded mainly by Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund, the Orwellian-named “Legal Accountability Center” has filed ethics complaints with the “grievance committees” of cities where the…

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