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Nice feel good story reminding us that Steve Bannon is in serious legal trouble even though we don’t hear about it that much.
Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Lindell
So, anyway, y'all doing anything for Halloween?
I'm dressed as an angry unpaid lawyer
Ooh,excellent!
Ah, yes, American justice, the best justice money can buy. Normally I'm pissed off by this, but for those people, I make a generous exception.
Maybe it will be cheaper just to confess and turn against Trump to save your sorry asses?
Give them overworked and underpaid public defenders, but means test them, first.
I don't know who to feel less sorry for, the trump allies or the lawyers not getting paid to represent them.
The lawyers. Even a rapist's friends deserve a fair trial. The lawyers are simply doing their job and ensuring that no one can claim the rapist's friends didn't get a fair hearing.
Eh. That's true for the commoners, but at a certain level of case, the lawyers are chasing notoriety and large sums of cash, and will do everything they can to cheat their way to a victory or stalemate to push justice off a while longer.
This isn't really about fair representation so that justice can be served, it's about legal tricks to circumvent and delay justice.
Don't feel bad for lawyers abusing the legal system and getting stiffed.
If you can't get a lawyer because you're so repugnant that no lawyer will represent you, that's your problem. You shouldn't have done all the crimes and also refused to pay them.
Trump is not a mafia Don because they always pay their bills, probably some extra under the table too. Even when they lose.
This doesn't work when somebody is innocently accused. That's why everybody has a right to a lawyer
That doesn't apply to anyone here lol. They all guilty. We got video.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The hefty legal bills of the ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon, former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and MyPillow CEO, Mike Lindell, underscore the scale of the criminal and civil charges that ensnare them.
Bannon has a court appeal slated for November over his criminal conviction last year and pending four-month jail sentence for obstructing Congress by spurning a subpoena from the House panel that was investigating the January 6 insurrection.
“As expected, the dominoes have started to fall in Georgia with three plea agreements by key Trump lawyers who in different ways worked with Rudy,” Paul Pelletier, the ex-acting chief of the fraud section at the justice department, told the Guardian.
“Giuliani must be concerned that Powell and Ellis will testify against him and add to the likelihood of conviction,” said Barbara McQuade, a former US attorney for eastern Michigan, told the Guardian.
The combative Trump ally, known for his far-right War Room podcast, was convicted last year and sentenced to four months in jail for obstruction of Congress by flouting subpoenas to cooperate with the House January 6 panel.
In October, he used his War Room podcast to host some of Trump’s most far-right Maga allies like the Florida representative Matt Gaetz, who played a key role in ousting the former House speaker Kevin McCarthy.
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Is this true or can they just not afford top tier attorneys?
Maybe, maybe not. The real question is whether they can find top tier attorneys who are willing to represent obvious crooks and not charge exorbitant fees. And the answer to that is not anymore.
These are the same idiots that for years have been fighting to take away rights from the poor and disadvantaged. It would be hilarious if some of these people needed to use public defenders.
It's funny to see capitalism actually help the world.
Bannon also faces a trial next May in New York related to state fraud, conspiracy and money-laundering charges that he bilked donors in a Mexican wall project, dubbed “We Build the Wall.”
Ok, red flag. Mexico paid for the wall, so Bannon is obviously innocent. Seeing as he needs a cheaper lawyer, I'll take the job at a huge discount (I'm not a lawyer, so I can charge a lot less cause I have no student loan payments to make). I'll argue the case for a flat fee of $10,000. I only commit to showing up once and anything after my silver-bullet argument is left for him to litigate, as I'm sure my perfect argument will win the case and more won't be needed.
Further, Lindell is fighting $2bn defamation lawsuits by electronic voting machine firms he has claimed helped rig the 2020 against Trump, which have cost him millions of dollars in legal fees owed to a Minneapolis law firm.
In October, the law firm formally asked a court to allow it to withdraw from representing Lindell in these cases, citing millions of dollars it was owed.
It must be embarrassing to represent such an asinine jackass, have video hit the internet and television, then get stiffed for doing so. Btw, I'm offering low rates for legal representation. I haven't found my silver-bullet for this case yet but, if paid, I certainly will. The rate will be higher because I need extra compensation to listen to a two-year-old bitch and complain for hours on end.
A court judgment has been issued against Bannon for the $480,000, which he is fighting with the help of lawyer Harlan Protass.
Harlan expects to get paid while arguing that Bannon's former counsel shouldn't get paid? He must be charging my super low rates.
Bannin has tens of millions from Seinfeld, and his War Room podcast is very popular.
Wonder if he may be using lawyer rotation as a delaying tacticl.
Won't matter.
Judges are too terrified to do anything.
It's pathetic and shameful.
Wheels of justice move incredibly slow, I think the strategy is death by a thousand cuts slowly and methodically, also they are waiting for the trump army to get bled dry of money while getting exhausted by all of the faux outrage.
Many die hard trump people in my circle have already started back peddling.