The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2021

The Article I Appropriations Clause prohibits any Executive Branch official from disbursing funds except as provided by an act of Congress, and no statute authorizes this giveaway of the public’s money,” Larkin Jr. Reviving the practice would violate the Article I Appropriations Clause and a statute known as the McDade Amendment, Larkin Jr.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional. He and his co-counsel, Philip Hirschkop, took the case to the Supreme Court. 29, 1941 – Nov.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 27, 2024

To achieve that extraordinary goal, he has alleged that the document violations (which expired long ago under the statute of limitations) were committed to hide some other crime. Originally, Bragg vaguely referenced four crimes and there have been months of confusion as to what he was specifically alleging as his criminal theories.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 28, 2024

Trump’s lawyers are defending a former president who is charged under a state misdemeanor which died years ago under the statute of limitations. The only crime that was clearly established in his trial was the grand larceny that Cohen admitted to under oath (after the statute of limitations had run out).

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. While there is a fair debate over the policy of relocation by states like Texas and Florida, the effort to use the criminal process as part of that political debate is … well, pathetic.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 5, 2024

At another, he adopted an argument of the National Rifle Association challenging the underlying statute. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. At one point, he claimed that the government must fulfill a prior dead plea agreement. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 18, 2024

In New York, the legislature changed the statute of limitations to allow Trump to be sued while New York Attorney General Letitia James effectively ran on a pledge of selectively prosecuting him. Shapiro professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 21, 2024

Even more notably, he admitted to the larceny on the stand — after the statute of limitations had passed. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. There will be no dead felony zapped back into life against Cohen, as it was for Trump. In fact, it was hard not to stare.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

Yet the Justice Department reportedly allowed the statute of limitations to run on major crimes, including the tax offenses related to the suspicious payments to Hunter Biden from Ukraine and other countries. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2023

While the actual charges will not be disclosed until the release of the indictment, the underlying theory discussed for months is an effort to revive a dead misdemeanor offense of falsifying business records — years after the statute of limitations expired. One can debate whether Trump may have committed this misdemeanor.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

You don’t have to go to law school to know that there’s something seriously criminal about that. You don’t have to go to law school to know that there’s something seriously criminal about that.” “You don’t have to go to law school to know” that the law is based on evidence and elements.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

After Harvard, Kruger went to Yale Law School, where she was the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal – the first Black woman to hold that job. During law school, Kruger spent one summer as an intern for the U.S. as “only jealousy.”. A stint in the Obama administration, including arguments at the Supreme Court.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2023

That’s because the long “investigation” into Hunter inexplicably allowed the statute of limitations to expire on the most controversial payments starting around 2014 from Ukraine gas company Burisma. There is still no explanation why special counsel David Weiss would allow the statute of limitations to run out.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Indeed, after years of denial, some Democratic members and the journalists are now admitting that Hunter Biden clearly broke the law. The Weiss investigation, however, languished for years even as some of us were pointing out that the statute of limitations was about to pass on felonies. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 15, 2024

When years of news reports forced the Justice Department to investigate some of these crimes, the Justice Department sat on the case until the most serious tax violations from 2014 to 2015 expired under the statute of limitations. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

Judge Carter notes that Eastman still believes that the statute is unconstitutional as written. The court simply brushes that aside and states the “ignorance of the law is no excuse” and “believing the Electoral Count Act was unconstitutional did not give President Trump license to violate it.”.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

While the Justice Department allowed the statutes of limitations to run on various felonies, Hunter would be faced with a new set of charges with years for criminal charges to be brought by prosecutors. That may now change. If Hunter lies to congressional investigators, he can be charged with a federal crime. That will now change.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2023

Given a suspect who is offering an implausible explanation for potentially criminal conduct, most prosecutors would want to secure a statement on the record. Lying to investigators is itself a federal crime — removing any questions over statutes of limitation.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

That is all over a crime from before the 2016 election that is a misdemeanor under state law that had already expired under the statute of limitations. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. Like his predecessor, Bragg previously scoffed at the case. Dunne and Mark F.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2023

Prosecutors then created a Rube Goldberg approach and suggested that the misdemeanor was committed to conceal a federal election law violation — a crime that the Justice Department declined to charge. The bootstrapping of a federal crime under this statute appears unprecedented and likely unsustainable.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

If he is found to have lied, he can be charged with a criminal felony. Hunter has benefited from the Justice Department limiting its investigation and inexplicably allowing the statute of limitations to run on key charges. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 1, 2024

The charges were built on a dead misdemeanor barred with the passage of the statute of limitations. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. Even after sitting in the courtroom watching the trial and the verdict, I still have no idea what Trump was convicted of in the case.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

There are serious challenges to this prosecution, including an argument that time has expired under the statute of limitations. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School. Bragg will have to convince a court that Trump paid the hush money for the sole purpose of the election.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2024

Attorneys be appointed under statute or nominated by the president (and confirmed by the Senate). Her mother escaped Cuba after the revolution and she grew up with a deep-seated faith in the rule of law. She graduated from Duke University and, after a stint as a journalist, graduated from Michigan Law School magna cum laude.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2023

There are a variety of challenges expected from the Trump team, including arguing that the government misused the civil statute of the Presidential Records Act to launch a criminal prosecution. Under the statute, this responsibility is left solely to the president.” Smith is now left in a battle not with Trump but time.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2024

With no federal prosecution, Bragg decided to use an unprecedented criminal theory not only to zap a dead misdemeanor into life (after the expiration of the statute of limitation) but to allow him to try violations of not only federal election law but also federal taxation violations. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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