Jenna Ellis becomes latest Trump lawyer to plead guilty over efforts to overturn Georgia's election
Jenna Ellis becomes latest Trump lawyer to plead guilty over efforts to overturn Georgia's election
Jenna
Ellis hugs her attorney Franklin Houge inside Fulton Superior Court
Judge Scott McAfee's Fulton County Courtroom, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, in
Atlanta. Attorney Jenna Ellis has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge
over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia
and says tearfully she looks back on that time with “deep remorse.”
Ellis is the fourth defendant to enter into a plea deal with
prosecutors. The Florida resident pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony
count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings. (AP
Photo/John Bazemore, Pool)
Ellis, the fourth defendant in the case to enter into a plea deal with prosecutors, was a vocal part of Trump's reelection campaign in the last presidential cycle and was charged alongside the Republican former president and 17 others with violating the state’s anti-racketeering law.
Ellis pleaded guilty to one felony count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings. She had been facing charges of violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known as RICO, and soliciting the violation of oath by a public officer, both felonies.
She rose to speak after pleading guilty, fighting back tears as she said she would not have represented Trump after the 2020 election if she knew then what she knows now, claiming that she relied on lawyers with much more experience than her and failed to verify the things they told her.
“What I did not do but should have done, Your Honor, was to make sure that the facts the other lawyers alleged to be true were in fact true,” the 38-year-old Ellis said.
The guilty plea from Ellis comes just days after two other defendants, fellow attorneys Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, entered guilty pleas. That means three high-profile people responsible for pushing baseless legal challenges to Democrat Joe Biden's 2020 election victory have agreed to accept responsibility for their roles rather than take their chances before a jury. A lower-profile defendant pleaded guilty last month.
Responding to a reporter's shouted question in the hallway of a New York City courthouse, where a civil case accusing him of inflating the value of his assets is being held, Trump said he didn't know anything about Ellis' plea deal but called it “too bad” and said he wasn't worried by it.
“Don't know anything, we're totally innocent of everything, that's political persecution is all it is,” he said.
Steve Sadow, Trump's lead attorney in the Georgia case, used Ellis' plea to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the racketeering charges Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis brought against all 19 defendants.
“For the fourth time, Fani Willis and her prosecution team have dismissed the RICO charge in return for a plea to probation,” he said. “What that shows is this so-called RICO case is nothing more than a bargaining chip for DA Willis.”
He also noted that Ellis pleaded guilty to a charge that wasn't in the original indictment and doesn't include Trump.
She was sentenced to five years of probation along with $5,000 in restitution, 100 hours of community service, writing an apology letter to the people of Georgia and testifying truthfully in trials related to this case.
The early pleas and the favorable punishment — probation rather than prison — could foreshadow similar outcomes for additional defendants who may see an admission of guilt and cooperation as their best hope for leniency. Even so, their value as witnesses against Trump is unclear given that their direct participation in unfounded schemes will no doubt expose them to attacks on their credibility and bruising cross-examinations should they testify.
The indictment in the sweeping case details a number of accusations against Ellis, including that she helped author plans on how to disrupt and delay congressional certification of the 2020 election’s results on Jan. 6, 2021, the day a mob of Trump supporters eventually overran the U.S. Capitol.
Ellis is also accused of urging state legislators to unlawfully appoint a set of presidential electors loyal to Trump at a hearing in Pennsylvania, and she later appeared with some of those lawmakers and Trump at a meeting on the topic at the White House. The indictment further says she similarly pushed state lawmakers to back false, pro-Trump electors in Georgia as well as Arizona and Michigan.
Prosecutor Daysha Young said in court Tuesday that Ellis attended a December 2020 meeting of Georgia state senators with Trump attorney and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and with Georgia-based attorney Ray Smith. Ellis “intentionally aided and abetted” the other two as they made false statements to the lawmakers, including that more than 2,500 people convicted of felonies, more than 66,000 people who were under 18 and more than 10,000 dead people voted in the 2020 election in Georgia, Young said.
Before her plea, Ellis, who lives in Florida, was defiant, posting in August on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, “The Democrats and the Fulton County DA are criminalizing the practice of law. I am resolved to trust the Lord.”
But she has been more critical of Trump since then, saying on conservative radio in September that she wouldn't vote for him again, citing his “malignant, narcissistic tendency to simply say that he's never done anything wrong."
Along with Giuliani, Ellis was a leading voice in the Trump campaign's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, appearing frequently on television and conservative media to tell lies about widespread fraud that did not occur and spread misinformation and conspiracy theories.
She was censured in Colorado in March after admitting she made repeated false statements about the 2020 election.
That punishment was due in part to a Nov. 20, 2020, appearance on Newsmax, during which she said, "With all those states (Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia) combined we know that the election was stolen from President Trump, and we can prove that.”
Powell pleaded guilty to six misdemeanors and was sentenced to serve six years of probation and was ordered to pay a fine of $6,000. Chesebro pleaded guilty to one felony and was ordered to serve five years of probation, pay $5,000 in restitution and do 100 hours of community service. Bail bondsman Scott Graham Hall pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor charges and got five years of probation. All of them were ordered to write apology letters to the people of Georgia and to testify truthfully in any other trial in the case.
Ellis and the other three pleaded guilty under Georgia’s first offender law. That means that if they complete their probation without violating the terms or committing another crime, their records will be wiped clean.
Trump and the other defendants, including his White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, have pleaded not guilty.
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Weissert reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.
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Partner2nd lawyer pleads guilty in Georgia over efforts to overturn Trump's election loss
Kenneth Chesebro had been charged alongside Trump and 17 others with violating anti-racketeering law
Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro pleaded guilty to a felony on Friday just as jury selection was getting underway in his trial on charges accusing him of participating in efforts to overturn former U.S. president Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 election in Georgia.
Chesebro, who was charged alongside Trump and 17 others with violating the state's anti-racketeering law, pleaded guilty to one felony charge of conspiracy to commit filing false documents in a last-minute deal.
His plea came a day after fellow attorney Sidney Powell, who had been scheduled to go to trial alongside him, entered her own guilty plea to six misdemeanour counts.
In Chesebro's case, he was sentenced to five years' probation and 100 hours of community service and was ordered pay $5,000 US in restitution, write an apology letter to Georgia's residents and testify truthfully at any related future trial.
The two guilty pleas — along with a third for a bail bondsman last month — are major victories for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who obtained the indictment in August.
They allow her to avoid a lengthy trial of just two defendants — which would have given those remaining a peek at her trial strategy — and to whittle down an unwieldy pool of defendants.
Publicly accepts responsibility
Unlike Powell, who was involved in strategy talks with the former president after the election, the indictment does not indicate direct contact between Chesebro and Trump. This could potentially limit any information he could offer prosecutors that would be helpful to them in their case against Trump.
Chesebro's lawyer, Scott Grubman, said it is entirely up to prosecutors whether his client will be called to testify against others in the case, but he would be surprised if it happens. Asked if Trump should be worried about any testimony Chesebro might offer, Grubman said, "I don't think so."
Chesebro, who lives in Puerto Rico, was initially charged with felony racketeering and six other counts as part of a wide-ranging scheme to keep Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden.
The indictment alleges Chesebro co-ordinated and executed a plan to have 16 Georgia Republicans sign a certificate declaring falsely that Trump won the state and declaring themselves the state's "duly elected and qualified" electors.
Grubman said after the plea hearing that his client has been "inaccurately described as the architect of some plan to overturn democracy." He said the plea deal contradicts that.
"I think this plea deal absolutely shows and proves that he was not and never was the architect of any sort of fake elector plan or anything like that," Grubman told reporters.
For prosecutors, the plea deal assures that Chesebro publicly accepts responsibility for his conduct in the case and removes the uncertainty of a trial by a jury of his peers. It also compels him to testify in future trials in the case.
Based on court filings by prosecutors, that could include communications he had with Trump's campaign lawyers and close associates, including co-defendant Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor and a Trump attorney.
Pressure led to plea: Trump lawyer
Trump attorney Steve Sadow said it appears as if Chesebro's guilty plea "was the result of pressure by Fani Willis and her team and the prosecution's looming threat of prison time."
He also reiterated what he said after Powell's guilty plea, which similarly included a commitment to testify in future trials: "Once again, I fully expect that truthful testimony would be favourable to my defence strategy."
By the time Chesebro agreed to the plea deal, prospective jurors at his planned trial had already been sworn in and filled out an extensive questionnaire. He had been set to be tried alongside Powell after each filed a demand for a speedy trial.
As part of Powell's deal, she will serve six years of probation, will be fined $6,000 US and will have to write an apology letter to Georgia and its residents. She also recorded a statement for prosecutors and agreed to testify truthfully against her co-defendants at future trials.
A lower-profile defendant in the case, bail bondsman Scott Graham Hall, pleaded guilty last month to five misdemeanour charges. He was sentenced to five years' probation and agreed to testify in further proceedings.
All of the other defendants, including Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, have pleaded not guilty.
Grubman said this deal means his client will get to return to his family and his life without spending a day behind bars. He said he believes that getting prosecutors to agree on the record that this was not a crime of "moral turpitude" should allow Chesebro to continue practising law.
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From Bush v. Gore to ‘Stop the Steal’: Kenneth Chesebro’s Long, Strange Trip
Mr. Chesebro, a buttoned-down Harvard lawyer, evolved from left-leaning jurist to key player in the Trump false electors scandal. What happened?
Reporting from Washington
On Friday, Mr. Chesebro’s journey took another turn, when he pleaded guilty in a criminal racketeering indictment in Fulton County, Ga., and agreed to testify against former President Donald J. Trump and other co-defendants, including Rudolph W. Giuliani and several other top Trump aides.
Mr. Chesebro, 62, a workaholic who brought platinum credentials to Mr. Trump’s shambolic legal team, is the third defendant to plead guilty for his role in what prosecutors say was a criminal conspiracy to create fraudulent slates of pro-Trump electors in six states, including Georgia, that Joseph R. Biden Jr. had won.
Mr. Chesebro’s trial, which had been scheduled to begin Monday, will no longer go forward. Liberal lawyers from his former life had hoped it would provide clues to an enduring mystery: What happened to “The Cheese?’’
“I still don’t see what should have been a warning sign,” Laurence H. Tribe, the Harvard constitutional law scholar who was Mr. Chesebro’s mentor, said in an interview. “Was there anything I could or should have done?”
Some former colleagues say Mr. Chesebro’s 180-degree turn came after a lucrative 2014 investment in Bitcoin and a subsequent posh, itinerant lifestyle. Others, like Mr. Tribe, see Mr. Chesebro as a “moral chameleon” and his story an old one about the seduction of power.
“He wanted to be close to the action,” said Mr. Tribe, who is among 60 lawyers and scholars who signed an ethics complaint in New York that could result in Mr. Chesebro’s disbarment. At Harvard, Mr. Chesebro assisted Mr. Tribe on many cases, including Bush v. Gore, which Mr. Tribe, as Mr. Gore’s chief legal counsel, argued before the Supreme Court.
“I was representing a vice president who might become president,” Mr. Tribe said. Mr. Chesebro, he continued, “saw me as having access to power. When the world turned and Donald Trump became president, I stopped hearing from him.”
Mr.
Chesebro has responded that in his work for Mr. Trump, he was providing
him with the zealous legal advocacy that all clients deserve when he
proposed a scheme that he acknowledged at the time “could appear
treasonous.”
“It is the duty of any attorney to leave no stone unturned in examining the legal options that exist in a particular situation,” Mr. Chesebro said in an interview with Talking Points Memo, before he was indicted. Beyond that interview, he has said very little, citing his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination for most of a deposition he gave to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attacks.
Takeaways From Trump’s Indictment in Georgia
A fourth criminal case. Former President Donald Trump was indicted for a fourth time on Aug. 14, this time over what prosecutors in Atlanta described as his efforts to unlawfully undo his election loss in Georgia in 2020. The indictment includes 13 charges against Trump, as well as charges against 18 of his allies. Here are some key takeaways:
Emails released in the run up to Mr. Chesebro’s trial suggest it was not just the law that drove him. In emails to the other Trump lawyers fighting to overturn the 2020 results, Mr. Chesebro estimated the odds of the Supreme Court stepping in at 1 percent. Still, he added, appealing to the high court has “possible political value.”
After his guilty plea on Friday, Mr. Chesebro’s lawyer, Scott R. Grubman, said in an email that “Mr. Chesebro is glad to be able to move on with his life and avoid spending even a minute in jail.” Mr. Grubman noted that Mr. Chesebro had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy, rather than the racketeering charge.
‘The Cheese’ Rises
Mr. Chesebro grew up in Wisconsin Rapids, in the heart of the state. His father, Donald Chesebro, was a high school music teacher, clarinetist and local bandleader inducted into the Polka Hall of Fame.
Mr. Chesebro graduated from Northwestern University and went on to Harvard Law School, where in a nod to his roots in America’s dairyland classmates dubbed him “The Cheese.” (His name is actually pronounced CHEZ-bro.)
His classmates remember him as intelligent and clever among the students who clustered around Mr. Tribe. They describe him as socially awkward — “Hi, it’s um, Ken,” he would say on phone calls — and in trying to ingratiate himself with faculty staff members ended up pestering them by hanging around a little too long at their desks.
But he worked hard, pulling all-nighters in writing briefs, especially if one was going to have Mr. Tribe’s name on it.
Mr. Chesebro graduated from law school in 1986 and secured a coveted job, clerking in Washington for U.S. District Court Judge Gerhard A. Gesell, who presided over some of the most pivotal political cases of the 1970s and 1980s.
Judge Gesell, who died in 1993, ruled against the Nixon administration’s effort to stop The Washington Post and The New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers about America’s involvement in Vietnam. He presided over several Watergate trials, ruling that President Richard M. Nixon’s office tape recordings were in the public domain because they had already been played in court, and that Nixon’s firing of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox was illegal.
The energetic judge prided himself on moving swiftly through his caseload with the help of a single clerk, who from 1986 to 1987 was Mr. Chesebro.
Early one morning the judge entered his chambers to find Mr. Chesebro asleep on a sofa. A former clerk recalled that Mr. Chesebro confessed to him that without telling the judge, he had been living in the courthouse. The judge was generous with his staffers, the former clerk said, and had Mr. Chesebro told him he needed housing, he likely would have helped, the clerk said.
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In 1994 he married Emily Stevens, a physician. Around the same time he began writing appellate briefs for a slew of cases brought by smokers against the major American tobacco companies. He registered to practice in multiple states, and crisscrossed the country.
Holly Hostrup, a California lawyer who worked with Mr. Chesebro on appellate briefs defending multibillion-dollar verdicts against Philip Morris, recalled him as a fine lawyer. “He was obviously bright and had good arguments and had good experience and had been hired onto big cases and won big cases,” she said. Ms. Hostrup belongs to a lawyers’ email list and said that Mr. Chesebro had been weighing in on tobacco cases as recently as this year.
After Mr. Chesebro’s indictment Ms. Hostrup asked an expert in courtroom psychology to help her understand: “How does a person who worked on all those cases on the plaintiffs’ side become a MAGA Republican?”
“To my mind,’’ she said, “it was like turning around and going to work for Philip Morris.”
Richard Daynard, a Northeastern University law professor and president of its Public Health Advocacy Institute, devised the legal strategy for suing the tobacco giants. “Ken was a guy with really interesting ideas, and proud of them,” he recalled.
“I can see the seduction,” he added, speaking of Mr. Chesebro’s embrace by Trump World. “I’m a Democrat, and if I had some bright ideas Biden’s advisers were taking seriously, that’s a big deal, a kind of opportunity.
“But of course I’m not about to throw my body over the tracks by saying this is a wonderful human being and whatever he was doing had to be for good reason.”
Sudden Wealth, Severed Ties
During the 2000 presidential election recount battle in Florida, Mr. Chesebro served on the research team assisting Mr. Tribe and other legal luminaries representing Mr. Gore. After Mr. Gore lost, Mr. Tribe and Mr. Chesebro worked together on a few more big lawsuits, then largely went separate ways.
But they stayed in touch. Mr. Chesebro’s 2014 investment in Bitcoin netted him “several million dollars,” he wrote in an email to Mr. Tribe that was quoted in a recent article in Air Mail. His marriage ended, and Mr. Chesebro acquired expensive homes in Boston and Manhattan, and a villa in Puerto Rico.
Soon after Mr. Chesebro’s big payday, his name began appearing on legal briefs filed by far-right conservatives, including John Eastman and a former Wisconsin judge, James Troupis. All three were described as co-conspirators in the federal indictment for the 2020 election scheme. He made hefty campaign donations to far-right Republicans, maxing out to Mr. Trump in 2020.
Mr. Troupis appealed to Mr. Chesebro for help several days after the election. According to the Georgia indictment, Mr. Chesebro drafted a flurry of incriminating memos.
In emails laying out the false electors plan, Mr. Chesebro misinterpreted Mr. Tribe’s work on Bush v. Gore, repeatedly citing it to support his theories. Mr. Tribe called him out in an article in August titled “Anatomy of a Fraud.”
An earlier version of this article misstated when the article by Laurence H. Tribe titled “Anatomy of a Fraud” was published. It was in August 2023, not last year.
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Our Coverage of the Trump Case in Georgia
Former President Donald Trump and 18 others face a sprawling series of charges for their roles in attempting to interfere in the state’s 2020 presidential election.
A Fourth Indictment: For the fourth time in as many months, Trump was charged with serious crimes — a development that shows how what was once unprecedented has now become surreally routine.
Trump Surrenders: The former president surrendered at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta on Aug. 24 and was booked on 13 felony charges. He spent about 20 minutes at the jail, getting fingerprinted and having his mug shot taken.
RICO Charges: At the heart of the indictment in Georgia are racketeering charges under the state Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Here’s why such charges could prove to be a powerful tool for the prosecution.
Who Else Was Indicted?: Rudy Giuliani, who led legal efforts in several states to keep the former president in power, and Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff, were among the 18 Trump allies charged in the case.
Plea Deals: Consecutive guilty plea deals by Sidney K. Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, two of the other individuals who stood accused in the case, could mean bad news for the remaining co-defendants.
Special Counsel Jack Smith arrives to remarks on a recently unsealed
indictment including four felony counts against former U.S. President
Donald Trump on August 1, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty
Images)Special Counsel Jack Smith has concluded that he can prove that several private lawyers acted as co-conspirators in former President Donald Trump’s criminal effort to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election. That conclusion, which is backed up by an enormous body of evidence, has significant implications for American democracy as well as for what it says about members of the legal profession. In the wake of this historic indictment, it is important for those of us with more information to come forward.
I am personally familiar with an aspect of the indictment’s documentary evidence that may shed light on the actions of one of the attorneys – Kenneth Chesebro — who is identified as Co-Conspirator 5 by the special counsel.
In a civil suit, Judge David Carter called the 2020 election interference scheme “a coup in search of a legal theory.” What I have to offer here can shed light on the anatomy of that fraud. It shows how the attorneys concocted arguments that gave the scheme an air of legitimacy but one that could not withstand public scrutiny. I know this well because a key memorandum drafted by Chesebro — which might otherwise appear relatively innocuous even in how it is discussed in the indictment — laid the foundation for the scheme grounded, in part, on misrepresenting my work. I know this especially well because of my prior communications with Chesebro.
I. Background
According to the indictment, the Trump attorneys participated in a “corrupt plan to subvert the federal government function by stopping Biden electors’ votes from being counted and certified” (para 54). They allegedly helped devise and implement central parts of the conspiracy. Those schemes include an effort to use false slates of electors to obstruct the congressional certification of the election and an effort to get Vice President Mike Pence to use his ceremonial role to interfere with the certification.
The special counsel alleges that Chesebro “assisted in devising and attempting to implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding” (para 8). It is important to note that the indictment alleges that he and other attorneys’ criminal conduct involved knowingly misrepresenting facts (not just misrepresenting the law). For instance, the indictment states that Rudy Giuliani and Chesebro made factual claims they knew to be false to GOP electors in Pennsylvania to induce those electors to swear to certifications that the two attorneys knew to be fraudulent (paras 61-62).
II. The November 18 Memorandum
The indictment focuses on a series of confidential memoranda that Chesebro wrote in devising the plan to orchestrate false slates of electors. “The plan capitalized on ideas presented in memoranda drafted by Co-Conspirator 5,” the special counsel states (para 54). The first of these documents – Chesebro’s November 18 Memorandum — came five days after “the Defendant’s Campaign attorneys conceded in court that he had lost the vote count in the state of Arizona – meaning, based on the assessment the Defendant’s Campaign advisors had given him just a week earlier, the Defendant had lost the election” (para 13).
That Memorandum, entitled “The Real Deadline for Settling a State’s Electoral Votes,” relied on a gross misrepresentation of my scholarship. What follows are my recollections of Chesebro’s communications with me and my impressions of his misuse of what I had written. Readers can draw their own conclusions.
As the title of the November 18 Memorandum indicates, Chesebro focuses on what he considers the “real deadline” under the federal scheme for presidential elections (see the Memorandum’s “Summary”). In the body of the Memorandum, he quotes me completely out of context. I was discussing the specifics of Florida state law — not what federal law (or, for that matter, any other state’s law) requires or permits.
What’s worse, in quoting and citing two pages of an article I wrote in the Harvard Law Review, the Memorandum makes me stand for the outlandish proposition that, whatever Congress might say and whatever the State’s chief executive might have certified as its official Electoral Slate, any State is free to continue “recounting” the votes cast in that State’s presidential election until January 6, two weeks before the impending presidential inauguration. To compound that problem, Chesebro uses that proposition as support for the myth that the way Hawaii’s electoral votes were counted for Kennedy over Nixon in the 1960 presidential election “buttresses” my supposed “conclusion” and thereby supports this imagined power of each State in the election process.
As an aside, I am not addressing here Chesebro’s misuse of the 1960 history. Others have amply explained how the 1960 Hawaii case has no conceivable application to the events of the 2020 false electors scheme.
It is very clear in the Harvard Law Review article that I was discussing how to interpret a particular piece of Florida legislation. I wrote:
“You can read the Florida statutes–which deal with presidential and gubernatorial elections in the same set of provisions– backwards and forwards without finding even the slightest clue that the state legislature ever decided that all recounts in a contested presidential election must stop by December 12 or, for that matter, at any time before the electors meet to give their votes on December 18, or even before Congress starts to count the votes on January 6.” (emphasis added)
The Chesebro memo extracted the final clause of that passage as though it were a general proposition about the power of States to do what they wish regardless of the Electoral Count Act and independent of the deadlines set by Congress. His memo states:
“The last-minute counting of the Hawaii electoral votes in favor of Kennedy in 1960 buttresses the conclusion of constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe that, absent some indication by a State to the contrary, the only real deadline for a state to complete its recount of a presidential election is ‘before Congress starts to count the votes on January 6.’” (emphasis in original)
I can say with confidence that the proposition that Chesebro misattributes to me is one I have never embraced. Among other things, it completely disregards the role of the Electoral Count Act – and, even more fundamentally, of Article II of the Constitution in empowering Congress to set the “Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes, which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.”
In his Memorandum, Chesebro then grossly misrepresents what I wrote in my constitutional law treatise on the power of one Congress, through legislation, to bind a future Congress’s ability to pass new legislation (American Constitutional Law, 3d ed., vol.1, §2-3, at 125-26 n.1 (2000)). My point was simple: That no power exists to create “meta-law;” any congressional statute can be amended or revoked by a later statute. In the context of the Electoral Count Act, it would naturally mean the Act is binding unless and until a future Congress decided to revise or revoke the statute – as the current Congress in fact did, in passing a law signed by the president in late 2022.
Chesebro’s Memorandum flips this on its head, citing my work in support of the very opposite conclusion to undercut the constitutional status of the Electoral Count Act. Why did he feel the need in mid-November 2020 to challenge the binding nature of the Electoral Count Act? The scheme that was carried out over the next several months required just such a challenge, and Chesebro appears to have foreseen it.
Specifically, in an apparent effort to get around the obviously binding force of the Electoral Count Act – as to which John Eastman infamously wrote Vice President Pence’s chief counsel to “implore” him to consider “one more relatively minor violation” of the ECA (para 122) – Chesebro completely misused part of the latest edition of my constitutional law treatise (he cites the pages referenced above). In those passages I explained my view as to why “the power of Congress legislatively to bind subsequent Congresses is limited, for any statute that purported to direct or to forbid subsequent Congresses to do certain things or to follow certain procedures could be repealed, as could any other law, by another duly enacted statute.” Despite the clearly limited nature of that modest proposition, Chesebro cites my writing as though it stands for the radical claim that it would be wrong “to view the Electoral Count Act as tying the Senate’s hands, unless amended” (emphasis added). That is, he averred that the Electoral Count Act could be flouted without a subsequent amendment or revocation by Congress.
What’s worse, as a result of this misrepresentation, Chesebro put me in the (outlandish) camp of those suggesting that the Electoral Count Act can be disregarded – for example, by a unilateral vice presidential decision to deem it “unconstitutional.” He cites other authorities purporting to be aligned with the views he ascribes to me. And his emails to Eastman and Giuliani subsequently first proposed a Senate hearing “with at least two highly qualified legal scholars concluding that the President of the Senate is solely responsible for counting the votes, and that the Electoral Count Act is unconstitutional in dictating limits on debate and dictating who wins electoral votes when there are 2 competing slates and the House and Senate disagree” and then set forth a plan whereby the “Vice President will have emphasized the need for focus on plain language and adherence to the Constitution, by rejecting the role of presiding officer imposed by the Electoral Count Act.”
I must assume that Chesebro knew better when he wrote those remarkable statements in 2020 (perhaps presuming that, because his memo was marked privileged and confidential, I and others would never see it).
Here is further background to the best of my recollection:
- Chesebro had worked with me on these very matters in Bush v. Gore and Bush v. Palm Beach County (I was the Counsel of Record in both those cases) and Chesebro, although no longer part of my core research team then, was privy to all the key conversations;
- Chesebro had discussed these matters with me personally shortly after the Supreme Court’s decisive December 12, 2000 decision in favor of George W. Bush, halting the Florida recount by a vote of 5-4;
- Chesebro had played a role in the research underlying the relevant part of the third edition of my treatise (see page ix of the preface to the third edition, listing Chesebro along with people like Elena Kagan, Ronald Klain, and Jeff Toobin in my acknowledgements);
- Indeed, when I acknowledged Chesebro’s role as a research assistant from the Class of 1986 along with Kagan and Toobin (see. pg iv of the preface to the second edition, 1988), I was specifically referencing work Chesebro had done for me on the precise topic of congressional power under the Necessary and Proper Clause (Art. I, §8, Cl. 18), to regulate the operations of all three branches, including Congress itself, in their discharge of specialized functions – a power I argued, though not everyone agreed, did not extend so far as to enable any one Congress to tie the hands of future Congresses with respect to how they opt to make law, including how their legislative products are to be construed and applied by the other two branches.
- Finally, Chesebro discussed these very issues with me after reading my 2001 Harvard Law Review article criticizing the concurring opinion by Chief Justice Rehnquist. At the time, Chesebro gave me every indication of agreeing with my views of all these issues, although of course we now have good reason to doubt that Chesebro was ever principled enough to say what he really thought as opposed to what he thought it would help him to have others believe he thought.
Chesebro’s conduct in the 2020 election is one of the reasons I joined several dozen prominent legal figures in signing onto an ethics complaint against him submitted to the Supreme Court of New York’s attorney grievance committee. That complaint alleged that his “conduct was infused throughout with ‘dishonesty, fraud, deceit, [and] reckless or intentional misrepresentation’ contrary to the core standard of” the rules of professional conduct.
The latest indictment places his conduct in even more stark terms.
My own conclusion is that all of this, the indictment included, reveals that from at least mid-November 2020, Chesebro had contrived a scheme (later adapted by Eastman), which included misusing the very parts of my treatise that Chesebro had helped me with as a research assistant going back to the second edition (1988), thereby casting me falsely as a supporter of a ludicrous reading of the Constitution that Chesebro and Eastman both apparently sought to normalize so that it would make it easier for Trump to get away with circumventing the Act.
A dissection of the November 18 Memorandum shows not only a gross misrepresentation of legal authorities, but more importantly Chesebro’s pivotal role in laying the groundwork for “a coup in search of a legal theory.”
The import of all this goes well beyond elections past and reaches to elections yet to come. Congress meticulously updated and reinforced the Electoral Count Act in legislation signed into law last December. In future elections, removing the guardrails of the Electoral Count Act as Chesebro sought to do could grievously endanger our entire system of self-government under law.
Laurence H. Tribe
Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus
617-495-1767
tribe@law.harvard.edu
Assistant
Kathleen McGillicuddy
617-496-2181
kmcgill@law.harvard.edu
Laurence H. Tribe is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor of
Constitutional Law Emeritus at Harvard University. The title
“University Professor” is Harvard’s highest academic honor, awarded to
fewer than 75 professors in the University’s history. Tribe taught at
Harvard Law School since 1968; received tenure at 30; and was voted
the best professor by the graduating class of 2000. Born in China to
Russian Jewish parents, Tribe entered Harvard at 16; graduated magna
cum laude with a summa cum laude in Mathematics (1962) and magna cum
laude in Law (1966); clerked for the California and U.S. Supreme
Courts(1966-68); was elected to the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences in 1979 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2010;
helped write the constitutions of South Africa, the Czech Republic,
and the Marshall Islands; has received eleven honorary degrees, most
recently a degree honoris causa from the Government of Mexico in 2011
that was never before awarded to an American and D, Litt. degree from
Columbia University in 2013; has prevailed in three-fifths of the many
appellate cases he has argued (including 35 in the U.S. Supreme
Court); was appointed in 2010 by President Barack Obama to serve as
the first Senior Counselor for Access to Justice and in 2021 by
President Joseph R. Biden to serve on the Presidential Commission on
the Supreme Court of the United States; and has written 115 books and
articles, including his treatise, American Constitutional Law, cited
more than any other legal text since 1950. Former Solicitor General
Erwin Griswold wrote: “[N]o book, and no lawyer not on the [Supreme]
Court, has ever had a greater influence on the development of American
constitutional law,” and former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge J. Michael
Luttig tweeted in January 2023, “Laurence H. Tribe has been the
Nation’s preeminent constitutional scholar for the past half-century.”
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 14:15:12 -0400
Subject: Re Trump versus Comey and The Office of Congressional Ethics
versus The Federal Court of Canada File # T-1557-15 and the upcoming
hearing on May 24th in Fredericton New Brunswick
To: washington field <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>,
oce@mail.house.gov, president <president@whitehouse.gov>, pm
<pm@pm.gc.ca>, "Jody.Wilson-Raybould"
<Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
stateofcorruptionnh1@gmail.com
clientssecurityboard@massbbo.
dick.hinch@leg.state.nh.us,
HouseLegislativeAdministration
dgottesman@nh-lawyers.com
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
"Richard D. Brinkman" <richardwtc@gmail.com>, "jean-pierre.blais"
<jean-pierre.blais@crtc.gc.ca>
<sylvie.gadoury@radio-canada.
<martine.turcotte@bell.ca>, devlin.barrett@washpost.com,
doj-cpb@doj.nh.gov, newsroom <newsroom@globeandmail.ca>, news
<news@kingscorecord.com>
Office of Congressional Ethics
U.S. House of Representatives
P.O. Box 895
Washington, DC 20515-0895
Email: oce@mail.house.gov
Phone: (202) 225-9739
From: OCE oce@mail.house.gov
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 11:20 AM
To: David Amos David.Raymond.Amos@gmail.com
Subject: Thank you for contacting the Office of Congressional Ethics
The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) of the United States House of
Representatives is in receipt of your submission. The OCE reviews all
information submitted to it pursuant to House Resolution 895 of the
110th Congress as amended and the OCE Rules for the Conduct of
Investigations.
Pursuant to House Rules a preliminary review commences upon the
written authorization of two members of the OCE Board, one of whom
must have been appointed by the Speaker of the House and one of whom
must have been appointed by the Minority Leader. The Board shall
authorize a preliminary review where there is a "reasonable basis" to
believe an allegation. However, this determination does not constitute
a finding that a violation has actually occurred.
Pursuant to House Rules, all investigations by the OCE are
confidential. Therefore, the OCE is not able to provide any further
information about whether the Board has authorized a review or whether
the OCE has conducted an investigation related to the facts you have
submitted. However, the OCE referrals to the Committee on Ethics are
publicly released under all but one set of circumstances. Any referral
made public will be posted on the OCE's website http://oce.house.gov.
You may also request a copy of any public report from the OCE.
If you have any questions about the OCE process, please contact us.
The OCE is not able to confirm or deny any specific investigations.
Sincerely,
The Office of Congressional Ethics
United States House of Representatives
-----Original Message-----
From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 11:19 AM
To: betty_rawnsley@aim.com ; stateofcorruptionnh1@gmail.com ;
tribe@law.harvard.edu
Cc: clientssecurityboard@massbbo.
sesno@gwu.edu ; cnntips@cnn.com ; dick.hinch@leg.state.nh.us
Subject: Re: Fwd: FOIA: U.S.D.O.J. : File number 2997869: Trust that
Robert Mueller, Jeffrey Denner and Mikey Gill know why I sued the MA
BOARD OF OVERSEERS ET AL TWICE in 2002
-----Original Message-----
From: betty_rawnsley@aim.com
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 8:50 AM
To: stateofcorruptionnh1@gmail.com
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com ; clientssecurityboard@massbbo.
oce@mail.house.gov ; sesno@gwu.edu ; cnntips@cnn.com
Subject: Fwd: FOIA: U.S.D.O.J. : File number 2997869: State of
Corruption in New Hampshire : Mike Gill: Professing to protect victims
of fraud and corruption of insurance companies,judicial and
professional misconduct of state officials,etc..
Re: "Obstructing of Justice Charges" should be very easy to prove so
"U.S. President Donald J. Trump" should probably prepare for an
impeachment process and maybe the U.S.D.O.J. attorney general should
become disbarred.as well. after all these years of standing in the way
of "Justice" in the State of New Hampshire,MA and now in the State of
Maine. To simply state that it is "pure" lunacy to ever believe that
the U.S.D.O.J. would investigate into any judicial or lawless
misconduct of the State of New Hampshire governing
officials,attorneys,doctors,
quote of a former "Harvard Graduate" in Boston,MA,while he embezzled
my own finances of twenty thousand dollars. MA BOARD OF OVERSEERS
should have never protected "Jeffrey Denner,Esq." at my expense and
well being.
He surely must have had "legal malpractice" insurance coverage,MA
BOARD OF OVERSEERS?? ( www.nhcitcourts.org) You had the former Chief
Broderick of the N.H. Supreme Court as a witness of the very corrupt
practices ongoing in their own state courts,in the State of New
Hampshire.
Sincerely, Elizabeth A. Rawnsley: 207 396 0622
-----Original Message-----
From: betty_rawnsley@aim.com
To: press@usdoj.gov; tips@fbi.gov
Cc: cnntips@cnn.com; tribe@law.harvard.edu; rawnsleyb@aol.com;
stateofcorruptionnh1@gmail.com
Sent: Wed, May 17, 2017 8:31 pm
Subject: Fwd: FOIA: U.S.D.O.J. : File number 2997869: State of
Corruption in New Hampshire : Mike Gill: Professing to protect victims
of fraud and corruption of insurance companies,judicial and
professional misconduct of state officials,etc..
Domestic wiretapping investigation Re: Attorney Robert Mueller was in
charge of the FBI,while my phones were unlawfully tapped into by the
Merrimack, New Hampshire Police, during the administration of George
W. Bush. What about that type of "felony" and the lies that James
Comey told the committee when he was interviewed about "wiretapping"
and lawless practices supported by the federal agencies and the law
officials in the State of N.H. and the Commonwealth of MA?
Director Mueller, along with Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey,
threatened to resign from office in March 2004 if the White House
overruled a Department of Justice finding that domestic wiretapping
without a court warrant was unconstitutional.[17] Attorney General
John D. Ashcroft denied his consent to attempts by White House Chief
of Staff Andrew Card and White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales to
waive the Justice Department ruling and permit the domestic
warrantless eavesdropping program to proceed. On March 12, 2004,
President George W. Bush gave his support to changes in the program
sufficient to satisfy the concerns of Mueller, Ashcroft and Comey.[
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Singh - QP, Jagmeet" JSingh-QP@ndp.on.ca
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 16:39:35 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Re Federal Court File # T-1557-15 and the
upcoming hearing on May 24th I called a lot of your people before High
Noon today Correct Ralph Goodale and Deputy Minister Malcolm Brown?
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
For immediate assistance please contact our Brampton office at
905-799-3939 or jsingh-co@ndp.on.ca
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 12:37:08 -0400
Subject: Re Federal Court File # T-1557-15 and the upcoming hearing on
May 24th I called a lot of your people before High Noon today Correct
Ralph Goodale and Deputy Minister Malcolm Brown?
To: hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca, rona.ambrose@parl.gc.ca,
communications@ps.gc.ca, Malcolm.Brown@ps-sp.gc.ca,
Heather.DeSantis@ps-sp.gc.ca,
ps.publicsafetymcu-
stephen.greene@sen.parl.gc.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca, maxime.bernier@parl.gc.ca,
Michael.Duheme@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, michael.chong@parl.gc.ca
Cc: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com,
marc.giroux@fja-cmf.gc.ca, andrew.baumberg@fct-cf.gc.ca,
mcu@justice.gc.ca, jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca, intcomm@mk.gov.hu,
washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, econdept@ceu.edu,
j.Russell.George@tigta.treas.
George.Soros@
Norman.Sabourin@cjc-ccm.gc.ca, john.kulik@mcinnescooper.com,
btgnaff@gmail.com, jsingh-qp@ndp.on.ca, Heather.DeSantis@canada.ca,
Malcolm.Brown@canada.ca
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
Deputy Minister Malcolm Brown
269 Laurier Avenue West,
19th Floor, Room 1919
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0P8
Telephone: 613-991-2895
Interesting news about the NDP N'esy Pas?
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/
Jagmeet Singh Would Shatter Historic Barrier By Capturing NDP Leadership
CP | By Kristy Kirkup, The Canadian Press
Posted: 05/15/2017 10:23 am EDT
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/
NDP leadership hopeful Brian Graff takes party to court after they
block his candidacy
Maura Forrest Tuesday, May 16, 2017
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Kulik, John" john.kulik@mcinnescooper.com
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 18:29:07 +0000
Subject: McInnes Cooper
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com, david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Dear Mr. Amos:
I have tried to call you back a number of times at 902-800-0369 but
each time I get a busy signal.
John Kulik
[McInnes Cooper]<http://www.
John Kulik Q.C.
Partner & General Counsel
McInnes Cooper
tel +1 (902) 444 8571 | fax +1 (902) 425 6350
1969 Upper Water Street
Suite 1300
Purdy's Wharf Tower II Halifax, NS, B3J 2V1
asst Cathy Ohlhausen | +1 (902) 455 8215
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Kulik, John" john.kulik@mcinnescooper.com
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 17:37:49 +0000
Subject: McInnes Cooper
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com, david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Dear Mr. Amos:
I am General Counsel for McInnes Cooper. If you need to communicate
with our firm, please do so through me.
Thank you.
John Kulik
[McInnes Cooper] http://www.mcinnescooper.com/
John Kulik Q.C.
Partner & General Counsel
McInnes Cooper
tel +1 (902) 444 8571 | fax +1 (902) 425 6350
1969 Upper Water Street
Suite 1300
Purdy's Wharf Tower II Halifax, NS, B3J 2V1
asst Cathy Ohlhausen | +1 (902) 455 8215
Notice This communication, including any attachments, is confidential
and may be protected by solicitor/client privilege. It is intended
only for the person or persons to whom it is addressed. If you have
received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by e-mail or
telephone at McInnes Cooper's expense.
Avis Les informations contenues dans ce courriel, y compris toute(s)
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destinataire(s) seulement. Si vous avez reçu ce courriel par erreur,
veuillez en aviser l'expéditeur par courriel ou par téléphone, aux
frais de McInnes Cooper.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Public Safety MCU / Sécurité publique UCM (PS/SP)"
ps.publicsafetymcu-
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 15:57:24 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Re the CBA, the RCMP, Federal Court File #
T-1557-15 and the Hearing before the Federal Court of Appeal on May
24th 2017
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Merci d’avoir écrit à l’honorable Ralph Goodale, ministre de la
Sécurité publique et de la Protection civile.
En raison d’une augmentation importante du volume de la correspondance
adressée au ministre, veuillez prendre note qu’il pourrait y avoir un
retard dans le traitement de votre courriel. Soyez assuré que votre
message sera examiné avec soin.
*********
Thank you for writing to the Honourable Ralph Goodale, Minister of
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.
Due to the significant increase in the volume of correspondence
addressed to the Minister, please note that there may be a delay
processing your email. Rest assured that your message will be
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ministerial Correspondence Unit - Justice Canada mcu@justice.gc.ca
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 15:56:02 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Re the CBA, the RCMP, Federal Court File #
T-1557-15 and the Hearing before the Federal Court of Appeal on May
24th 2017
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Thank you for writing to the Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister
of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.
Due to the significant increase in the volume of correspondence
addressed to the Minister, please note that there may be a delay in
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Merci d'avoir écrit à l'honorable Jody Wilson-Raybould, ministre de la
justice et procureur général du Canada.
En raison d'une augmentation importante du volume de la correspondance
adressée à la ministre, veuillez prendre note qu'il pourrait y avoir
un retard dans le traitement de votre courriel. Nous tenons à vous
assurer que votre message sera lu avec soin.
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 11:55:57 -0400
Subject: Re the CBA, the RCMP, Federal Court File # T-1557-15 and the
Hearing before the Federal Court of Appeal on May 24th 2017
To: ray.adlington@mcinnescooper.
bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca,
Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca
Cc: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, Mordaith@gmail.com,
leanne.murray@mcinnescooper.
Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca, nick.moore@bellmedia.ca,
jeremy.keefe@globalnews.ca, steve.murphy@ctv.ca,
Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Gilles.Moreau@forces.gc.ca,
sallybrooks25@yahoo.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com, andre@jafaust.com,
jbosnitch@gmail.com, serge.rousselle@gnb.ca, premier@gnb.ca,
brian.gallant@gnb.ca, Larry.Tremblay@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
luc.labonte@gnb.ca
As I told the RCMP who called me last month the proper time and place
to discuss the CBA and your former partner Judge Richard Bell is the
Federal Court of Canada
Raymond G. Adlington Partner
McInnes Cooper
1300-1969 Upper Water St., Purdy's Wharf Tower II PO Box 730, Stn. Central
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2V1
Phone: (902) 444-8470
Fax: (902) 425-6350
E: ray.adlington@mcinnescooper.
http://www.mcinnescooper.com/
Ray Adlington named to CBA Board of Directors
May 2, 2017
Halifax partner Ray Adlington was recently named to the CBA Board of Directors.
In their announcement yesterday the CBA advised that the board would
come into effect September 1st, 2017.
After collecting extensive input over the past two years, we know
that CBA members believe it’s important for the organization to have a
Board of Directors that reflects the diversity of the legal
profession, including a mix of practice types, experience, skills,
geography and more.
Our new Board of Directors exemplifies this principle.
The board is composed from one member from each province as well as
the CBA President.
Congratulations Ray on this well deserved appointment.
Date: 20151223
Docket: T-1557-15
Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 23, 2015
PRESENT: The Honourable Mr. Justice Bell
BETWEEN:
DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
Plaintiff
and
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
Defendant
ORDER
(Delivered orally from the Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on
December 14, 2015)
The Plaintiff seeks an appeal de novo, by way of motion pursuant to
the Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106), from an Order made on November
12, 2015, in which Prothonotary Morneau struck the Statement of Claim
in its entirety.
At the outset of the hearing, the Plaintiff brought to my attention a
letter dated September 10, 2004, which he sent to me, in my then
capacity as Past President of the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian
Bar Association, and the then President of the Branch, Kathleen Quigg,
(now a Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal). In that letter
he stated:
As for your past President, Mr. Bell, may I suggest that you check the
work of Frank McKenna before I sue your entire law firm including you.
You are your brother’s keeper.
Frank McKenna is the former Premier of New Brunswick and a former
colleague of mine at the law firm of McInnes Cooper. In addition to
expressing an intention to sue me, the Plaintiff refers to a number of
people in his Motion Record who he appears to contend may be witnesses
or potential parties to be added. Those individuals who are known to
me personally, include, but are not limited to the former Prime
Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper; former
Attorney General of Canada and now a Justice of the Manitoba Court of
Queen’s Bench, Vic Toews; former member of Parliament Rob Moore;
former Director of Policing Services, the late Grant Garneau; former
Chief of the Fredericton Police Force, Barry McKnight; former Staff
Sergeant Danny Copp; my former colleagues on the New Brunswick Court
of Appeal, Justices Bradley V. Green and Kathleen Quigg, and, retired
Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police.
In the circumstances, given the threat in 2004 to sue me in my
personal capacity and my past and present relationship with many
potential witnesses and/or potential parties to the litigation, I am
of the view there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias should I
hear this motion. See Justice de Grandpré’s dissenting judgment in
Committee for Justice and Liberty et al v National Energy Board et al,
[1978] 1 SCR 369 at p 394 for the applicable test regarding
allegations of bias. In the circumstances, although neither party has
requested I recuse myself, I consider it appropriate that I do so.
AS A RESULT OF MY RECUSAL, THIS COURT ORDERS that the Administrator of
the Court schedule another date for the hearing of the motion. There
is no order as to costs.
“B. Richard Bell”
Judge
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:12:04 -0400
Subject: Attn Bob Paulson and Jan Jensen et al Re A call from Cst
Woodman (506 851 7878) today As I said to him I look forward to
meeting you RCMP dudes in Federal Court
To: bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, cathyc@ccca-cba.org,
Larry.Tremblay@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, dwayne.woodman@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:17:31 -0400
Subject: Attn Assistant Commissioner Larry Tremblay, Commanding
Officer, New Brunswick I just called and left a message for you
To: Larry.Tremblay@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
dale.drummond@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
CRAIG.DALTON@gnb.ca
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/
Assistant Commissioner Larry Tremblay, Commanding Officer, New Brunswick
Larry TremblayAssistant Commissioner Larry Tremblay joined the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police in 1985 from Montreal, Quebec. Prior to
joining the Force, he served nearly four years in the Royal Canadian
Navy.
A/Commr. Tremblay began his RCMP career in New Brunswick, where he
spent 11 years occupying positions in general duty, covert operations
and drug enforcement across the province. Prior to joining the
executive ranks in 2002 with A Division's (Ottawa Region) Combined
Forces Special Enforcement Unit/Drug Section, he completed a series of
assignments related to federal enforcement and specialized services in
Regina, Milton, Ontario and Ottawa.
Between 2004 and 2008, A/Commr. Tremblay had the unique opportunity to
be seconded to CSIS, where he developed expertise in counter
proliferation and terrorism. Upon his return to the RCMP, he was
assigned to Federal Policing Criminal Operations as the Director
General responsible for National Security, Financial Crimes and
Serious Organized Crime investigations until 2014. Following this
role, he became the Criminal Operations and Protective officer at
National Division (Ottawa Region), where he was responsible for
sensitive and international investigations as well as the security of
Canada's Prime Minister, Governor General and Parliament Hill.
In 2015, A/Commr. Tremblay returned to Headquarters as Assistant
Commissioner of Federal Policing Strategic Policy & External
Relations. In this strategic advisor role, he led initiatives aimed at
maximizing the impact of RCMP programs, enhancing relationships with
domestic and international partners, as well as prevention
initiatives.
In 2016, A/Commr. Tremblay was appointed the 30th Commanding Officer
of the RCMP in New Brunswick.
A/Commr. Tremblay has received several medals and commendations
throughout his career for his dedication to excellence in policing. He
was granted The Order of Merit of the Police Forces from the Governor
General, His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, in 2014.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 21:27:19 -0400
Subject: I repeat Mr Jensen have you contacted the RCMP and the FBI YET?
To: jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca, Michael.Kowalchuk@cas-satj.gc.
bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca,mcu
Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, James.Comey@ic.fbi.gov,
washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, marc.giroux@fja-cmf.gc.ca,
Norman.Sabourin@cjc-ccm.gc.ca, info@gg.ca, serge.rousselle@gnb.ca,
david.eidt@gnb.ca, premier@gnb.ca, blaine.higgs@gnb.ca,
Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca, David.Coon@gnb.ca, david@lutz.nb.ca,
mark.vespucci@ci.irs.gov
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca,
Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc@canada.ca, hon.melanie.joly@canada.ca,
speaker.president@parl.gc.ca, speaker@leg.bc.ca, geoff@geoffregan.ca,
heather.bradley@parl.gc.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca>, mcohen@trumporg.com,
president@whitehouse.gov, Bill.Casey@parl.gc.ca,
Pam.Goldsmith-Jones@parl.gc.ca
Catherine.Harrop@cbc.ca, Catherine.McKenna@parl.gc.ca,
Frank.McKenna@td.com, premier@gov.bc.ca, Gerald.Butts@pmo-cpm.gc.ca,
Michael.Wernick@pco-bcp.gc.ca
http://davidraymondamos3.
---------- Original message ----------
From: Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:31:32 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Re the CROWN'S SECOND QUERY about a Joint
Book of Authorites for its Cross Appeal within the Federal Court of
Appeal File No. A-48-16
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
Thank you for writing to the Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Member
of Parliament for Vancouver Granville and Minister of Justice and
Attorney General of Canada.
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Vancouver Granville et ministre de la justice et procureur g?n?ral du
Canada.
En raison d'une augmentation importante du volume de la correspondance
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:31:26 -0400
Subject: Re the CROWN'S SECOND QUERY about a Joint Book of Authorites
for its Cross Appeal within the Federal Court of Appeal File No.
A-48-16
To: "jan.jensen" , "bill.pentney" , mcu , "Jody.Wilson-Raybould" ,
"bob.paulson" , "Gilles.Blinn" , "James.Comey" , washington field ,
"marc.giroux" , "Norman.Sabourin"
Cc: David Amos , info , "serge.rousselle" , "david.eidt" , premier ,
"blaine.higgs" , "Dominic.Cardy" , "David.Coon" , david ,
"mark.vespucci"
Mr Jensen.
I believe my filing was clear in stating my wishes. Obviously my list
far less numerous than that of the CROWN'S.
I see no need to explain myself to you at this time other than to
explain that if the CROWN is successfaul in its malicious attempt to
dismiss and very legitmate complaint I will attempt to bring the
matter before the Supreme Court of Cnanda and I will need to argue the
Consitution etc.
Pursuant to the hearing on April 3rd. I ask again have you been in
touch with the RCMP or the FBI about the true copy of a Yankee wiretap
tape that has been in the docket of Federal Court since 2015 and
discussed by me with three judges of that court thus far?
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
902 800 0369
If anyone cares they can listen to the hearing right here
https://archive.org/details/
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:03:49 -0400
Subject: Atttn John Pappas and James Spurr et al
To: pappas.john@jdirving.com, jamess@halifaxwater.ca, cathyc@ccca-cba.org
Cc: denis_lavoie@viarail.ca, heidi.schedler@novascotia.ca,
srotstein@fpsc.ca, nick.slonosky@investorsgroup.
James.Comey@ic.fbi.gov, david.raymond.amos@gmail.com,
dean.buzza@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Larry.Tremblay@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
Ed.Doherty@gnb.ca, premier@gnb.ca, PREMIER@gov.ns.ca
http://www.ccca-accje.org/Who-
John C. Pappas
New Brunswick
Phone #: (506) 632-7777
Fax: (506) 644-3491
Email: pappas.john@jdirving.com
Website: www.jdirving.com
J.D. Irving Limited
300 Union St
PO Box 5777 Stn Main
Saint John NB E2L 4M3
James G. Spurr
Nova Scotia
Phone #: (902) 490-6101
Fax: (902) 490-6934
Email: Contact by email
Website: http://www.halifax.ca/
Halifax Regional Water Commission
PO Box 8388 RPO CSC
Halifax NS B3K 5M1
I just called all of you and talked to quite few of you personally. As
promised here is recent email to the RCMP about my litgation in
Federal Court and after that I forwarded two old emails to John Pappas
and James Spurr about the Emera Pipeline Project etc ( I have sent
the attachments to Mr Spurr and Mr Pappas and many others in the past
and I edited the emails somewhat for brevity but as the RCMP and the
FBI are well aware the same emails can be viewd in their entirety on
the Internet.)
http://davidraymondamos3.
Monday, 17 April 2017
Does anyone remember my phone calls, Tweets, blogs and emails to
Viktor Orbán the Hungarian Prime Minister about my old politcal
enemies Iggy and George Soros et al
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Ügyfélszolgálat (BM)"
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 13:06:36 +0000
Subject: Valasz
To: David Amos
Tisztelt Feladó!
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 09:06:29 -0400
Subject: Does anyone remember my phone calls, Tweets, blogs and emails
to Viktor Orbán the Hungarian Prime Minister about my old politcal
enemies Iggy and George Soros et al
To: intcomm@mk.gov.hu, "George.Soros" , "Bill.Morneau" , mcohen ,
"Diane.Lebouthillier" , "Diane.Lebouthillier" , RT-US , gopublic ,
birgittaj , postur , pm , president , "boris.johnson.mp" ,
"Andrew.Bailey" , oig , newsroom , news-tips , news , jacques_poitras
, spp@ceu.edu, econdept@ceu.edu, legalst@ceu.edu, mcu , "jan.jensen" ,
"Jody.Wilson-Rayboul\"James.
Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
\"James.Comey\" , common@omgpu.ru, jmurray@bard.edu,
titkarsag@me.gov.hu, Communications_Office@ceu.edu, \"ed.pilkington\"
, mdcohen212@gmail.com, \"jbosnitch\" , \"andre" , lakossag@im.gov.hu,
ugyfelszolgalat@bm.gov.hu
Cc: David Amos , lionel , "steve.murphy" , nmoore
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/
Thousands protest Hungary's crackdown on university funded by U.S.
billionaire George Soros
Education law targets Central European University, which is headed by
former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff
Thomson Reuters Posted: Apr 15, 2017 3:22 PM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/
Tuesday April 11, 2017
Ignatieff says Hungary's PM 'hijacked' his university to settle score
with billionaire George Soros
https://twitter.com/
David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos 2 hours ago
Replying to @zoltanspox @FreedomHouseDC
We should talk about Soros & Iggy (Canada's Prince of Darkness) ASAP?
My # is 902 800 0369 @CBCPolitics #cdnpoli
https://www.theguardian.com/
https://www.ceu.edu/about/
https://www.ceu.edu/node/13709
Web: http://legal.ceu.edu
Phone: (+36-1) 327 3023
E-mail: legalst@ceu.edu
Web: http://spp.ceu.edu
Phone: (+36-1) 327 3110
E-mail: spp@ceu.edu
Web: http://economics.ceu.edu/
Phone: (+36-1) 327 3226
E-mail: econdept@ceu.edu
http://www.kormany.hu/en/
The Prime Minister's Office
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Phone: +36-1-795-6978
Fax: +36-1-795-0381
E-mail: titkarsag@me.gov.hu
nternational Communications Office
E-mail: intcomm@mk.gov.hu
Phone:+36 1 896 1905
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 08:07:54 -0400
Subject: ATTN Péter Szijjártó RE Trump and George Soros et al I have
been trying to talk to people working for Hungarian Prime Minister for
years
To: intcomm@mk.gov.hu, "George.Soros", "Bill.Morneau", mcohen ,
"Diane.Lebouthillier" ,"Diane.Lebouthillier" , RT-US, gopublic , birgittaj
, postur , pm ,president , "boris.johnson.mp", "Andrew.Bailey"
, oig , newsroom, news-tips , news, jacques_poitras
Cc: David Amos
Whereas you were appointed to State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and
External Economic Relations of the Prime Minister’s Office.you above
all should understand why I have an issue with Banksters since well
before George W Bush was first elected while Trump judged Beauty
Queens and managed marry one from your neck of the woods
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 16:59:58 -0400
Subject: Yo Michael Cohen seems that the Banksters and their
Beancounters will have to rethink things now that your Boss "The
Donald" is pounding on the drums od WAR EH?
To: mdcohen212@gmail.com, dawn.desjardins@rbc.com,
fchamber@frederictonchamber.ca
noteboom@councilofchurches.com
"Dominic.Cardy\"Dale.Morgan\" ,\"Dale.Morgan"
Cc: David Amos
https://www.councilofchurches.
http://www.canadianleadership.
PETER NOTEBOOM
phone: 416-939-3595
email peter.noteboom.home@gmail.com
website:
http://www.
fee:
$500 - $1000 per day
The Trump Presidency's Impact on New Brunswick
Rogers tv
Published on Apr 3, 2017
The Fredericton Chamber of Commerce Hosts a Discussion on the
Financial Impact of the Trump Presidency with RBC Vice President Dawn
Desjardins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael Cohen
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:15:14 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE FATCA ATTN Pierre-Luc.Dusseault I just
called and left a message for you
To: David Amos
Effective January 20, 2017, I have accepted the role as personal
counsel to President Donald J. Trump. All future emails should be
directed to mdcohen212@gmail.com and all future calls should be
directed to 646-853-0114.
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any errors or omissions in emails. Any views or opinions presented in
any email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily
represent those of The Trump Organization or any of its
affiliates.Nothing in this communication is intended to operate as an
electronic signature under applicable law.
This is the docket in Federal Court
http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
These are digital recordings of the last two hearings
Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/
Jan 11th https://archive.org/details/
and Federal Court of Appeal
http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
>
>> In a nutshell I am a whistleblower about financial crimes and murder
>> who has been suing the Crown since I ran in the election of the 42nd
>> Parliament.
>>
>> This was the last email I sent yesterday.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos
>> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 21:15:29 -0400
>> Subject: A Little Deja Vu for Bloomberg, Icelanders, Yankee and Canadian
>> Feds,
>> To: eevans3@bloomberg.net, llaurent2@bloomberg.net, postur
>> , postur , birgittaj
>> , smari , "PETER.MACKAY"
>> , "mark.vespucci"
>> , "maxime.bernier"
>> , "maria.powell" ,
>> "Marc.Litt" , "Bill.Morneau"
>> , "bob.paulson" ,
>> "James.Comey" , oig ,
>> "dean.buzza" , Kevin
>> , Juanita.Peddle@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>> randyedmunds@gov.nl.ca
>> Cc: David Amos
>>
>> Wednesday, 16 January 2013
>> Good evening Special Agent Mark Vespucci Say Hoka Hey to Mr Obama's
>> lawyer for me will ya???
>> You dudes can find this email right here
>>
>> http://thedavidamosrant.
>> evening-special-agent-mark.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos
>> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:46:06 -0400
>> Subject: This is a brief as I can make my concerns Cst Peddle ask the
>> nasty Newfy lawyer Tommy Boy Marshall why that is
>> To: "Wayne.Lang" , toewsv1
>> , georgemurphy@gov.nl.ca, tosborne@gov.nl.ca,
>> william.baer@usdoj.gov, randyedmunds@gov.nl.ca, yvonnejones@gov.nl.ca,
>> gerryrogers@gov.nl.ca
>> Cc: Juanita.Peddle@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, tommarshall@gov.nl.ca,
>> "bob.paulson" , David Amos
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos
>> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:36:04 -0400
>> Subject: This is a brief as I can make my concerns Randy
>> To: randyedmunds
>> Cc: David Amos
>>
>> In a nutshell my concerns about the actions of the Investment Industry
>> affect the interests of every person in every district of every
>> country not just the USA and Canada. I was offering to help you with
>> Emera because my work with them and Danny Williams is well known and
>> some of it is over eight years old and in the PUBLIC Record.
>>
>> All you have to do is stand in the Legislature and ask the MInister of
>> Justice why I have been invited to sue Newfoundland by the
>> Conservatives
>>
>>
>> Obviously I am the guy the USDOJ and the SEC would not name who is the
>> link to Madoff and Putnam Investments
>>
>> Here is why
>>
>> http://www.banking.senate.gov/
>> 90F8E691-9065-4F8C-A465-
>>
>> Notice the transcripts and webcasts of the hearing of the US Senate
>> Banking Commitee are still missing? Mr Emory should at least notice
>> Eliot Spitzer and the Dates around November 20th, 2003 in the
>> following file
>>
>> http://www.checktheevidence.
>>
http://www.archive.org/
https://archive.org/details/
http://www.archive.org/
FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
Senator Arlen Specter
United States Senate
Committee on the Judiciary
224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Mr. Specter:
I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
raised in the attached letter. Mr. Amos has represented to me that
these are illegal FBI wire tap tapes. I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact
with you about this previously.
Very truly yours,
Barry A. Bachrach
Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
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 Booking photo, 2023 | |
| Born | Kenneth John Chesebro June 5, 1961 Wisconsin, US |
| Education | Northwestern University (BS) Harvard University (JD) |
| Political party | Democratic (before 2016) Independent (2016–present) |
| Criminal charges | 7 Georgia state charges:[1]
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| Criminal status | Plea bargain, pled guilty to: conspiracy to commit filing false documents |
| Spouse | Emily Stevens (divorced) |
Kenneth John Chesebro (/ˈtʃɛzbroʊ/ CHEZ-broh;[2]) is an American attorney[3][4] most widely known for participating in the Trump fake electors plot[5] that conspired to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election. On August 14, 2023, Chesebro was indicted along with eighteen others in the Georgia election racketeering prosecution.[6] On October 20, 2023, he pled guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to commit filing false documents. [7] As part of his plea bargain deal, Chesebro accepted five years of probation, $5,000 in restitution, 100 hours of community service, and agreed to testify against Donald Trump and the remaining defendants.[8]
Early life and education
Kenneth Chesebro was born in 1961 and raised in Wisconsin Rapids, about 100 miles north of Madison, Wisconsin. His father was a music teacher and his mother was a speech therapist.
Chesebro earned a Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University. He earned a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School in the class of 1986 that included Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and Jeffrey Toobin.[3] During law school, Chesebro, Kagan, and Ron Klain were research assistants for Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe.[9][10]
Legal career
After earning his law degree, Chesebro clerked for Judge Gerhard Gesell in Washington, D.C. Gesell was known as a liberal jurist who presided over high profile cases including the Nixon administration's case involving the Pentagon papers, where he ruled in favor of the Washington Post.[9]
In 1987, Chesebro opened his own law firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Over the next 20 years he continued to do occasional work with Laurence Tribe, including working on Bush v. Gore in support of Vice President Gore.[11] Tribe said that Chesebro was “obviously bright and seemingly decent.”[12] Tribe also stated that "even though we used to be friends, I really think he should never again be allowed to practice law.”[10]
Starting in 2016, Cheseboro's legal work began to support conservative causes and prominent Republicans. That year, along with John Eastman, he filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in a case involving citizenship of residents of American Samoa. In 2018, he represented Republican politicians, including Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, in a Utah voting rights case.[10]
Political affiliation
Until 2016, Chesebro was a registered Democrat.[9] He changed his registration in Massachusetts to unaffiliated. A few years later he moved to New York where he also registered as unaffiliated.[9]
Chesebro skewered the “Reagan Administration ideologues and their colleagues in Congress" in a 1993 article in the American University Law Review.[10] Later in the 1990s, he donated to Bill Clinton. In 2000 Chesebro donated to John Kerry's senate campaign. In 2004, he was an enthusiastic fan of Barack Obama, after Obama's convention speech that year.[9] He also donated to Wisconsin Democratic Senator Russ Feingold.[10]
In 2016, Cheseboro began supporting Republicans, with contributions to J.D. Vance, Ron Johnson, and others.[12] Senator Ron Johnson had arrived in the Senate after defeating Russ Feingold in Chesebro's native state of Wisconsin. In 2020, Chesebro donated $2,800 to the Trump campaign.[9]
Chesebro has donated more than $50,000 to Republicans.[10]
Working on a pro bono basis, Chesebro wrote memos to James Troupis, a lawyer with the Trump campaign, on November 18,[13] December 6,[14] and December 9,[15] 2020. The memos outlined a plan to give the 2020 election to Donald Trump.
The strategy was to have Trump-Pence electors in six allegedly contested states submit alternate slates of electors in hopes that Pence would count them. In the December 6 memo, Chesebro said he believed the strategy was "constitutionally defensible" but acknowledged that the Supreme Court might rule against it and said he was “not necessarily advising” it. Ignoring Vice President Nixon's statement that it should not establish a precedent, Chesebro used the 1960 Hawaii election as an example of a competing slate of electors.[16][17]
The objectives were to focus the public's attention on alleged "electoral abuses by the Democrats" and to "buy the Trump campaign more time to win litigation that would deprive Biden of electoral votes and/or add to Trump's column”.[14][18][19]
The memos ultimately inspired the scheme in seven states, though Vice President Mike Pence did not accept the Trump-Pence electors and refused to participate in the scheme. Laurence Tribe, Chesebro's former mentor, would later join an ethics complaint filed with the New York Bar regarding the December 6 memo. In an article for Just Security, Tribe complained: "Chesebro completely misused part of the latest edition of my constitutional law treatise."[20]
On December 13, 2020,[21] Chesebro emailed Rudy Giuliani and others with a proposal for Pence to recuse himself from certifying the election results. He argued that a vice president who has just run for re-election has a conflict of interest, and he suggested that instead Chuck Grassley or another senior senate Republican should assume the role of certification. In this proposed strategy, when the senator opened the Arizona envelopes and found two conflicting elector slates, he would halt the certification and suggest that Arizona's Republican-controlled state legislature appoint electors instead. Grassley told Roll Call on January 5 that "We don't expect [Pence] to be there", though Grassley's office quickly walked back the statement and claimed that neither he nor his staff had been aware of the proposal.[22][23] On March 28, 2022, Judge David O. Carter, after considering Chesebro's email during a court case, ruled: "President Trump's team transformed a legal interpretation of the Electoral Count Act into a day-by-day plan of action. The draft memo pushed a strategy that knowingly violated the Electoral Count Act".[24][25]
On December 23, 2020, John Eastman emailed Boris Epshteyn an attachment called "PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL — Dec. 23 memo on Jan. 6 scenario." Eastman commented: "I'm fine with all of Ken [Chesebro]'s edits."[26]
On December 30, 2020, Chesebro emailed John Eastman and others, saying he planned to stay at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC from January 3–8.[27]
On December 31, 2020, Chesebro emailed John Eastman and others, suggesting that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas might be willing to rule that the Georgia count was in "doubt", and that such a ruling might be "good enough" for Pence and Congress to delay their consideration of Georgia's electors on January 6.[28]
On January 6, 2021, the day of the attack on the Capitol, Chesebro was on the Capitol grounds following Alex Jones. It is not known why Chesebro was there, or whether he entered the Capitol building that day.[27]
Chesebro told Talking Points Memo in a June 2022 interview that his actions for the Trump campaign were "what lawyers do."[29]
U.S. House investigation
On March 1, 2022, Chesebro was subpoenaed by the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.[30] He fought the subpoena[31] but testified on October 26.[32] When asked where he was the first week of January 2021 and specifically on January 6, Chesebro invoked his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent.[27] This committee concluded that he was the chief architect of the fake electors scheme used by President Donald Trump and his allies in an attempt to stay in power after losing the 2020 presidential election.[33][34]
Georgia prosecution
In July 2022, he was subpoenaed by a grand jury in relation to the 2020 Georgia election investigation.[35]
On August 14, 2023, Chesebro was indicted along with 18 other people in the prosecution related to the 2020 election in Georgia.[36] He exercised his right to demand a speedy trial,[37] and his trial was set for October 23, 2023.[38] On September 1, he pleaded not guilty to seven criminal charges, including a violation of Georgia's RICO act and conspiracy to commit forgery, in the Georgia election subversion case, and he also waived his right to an arraignment hearing.[39]
On September 21, his lawyers asked for five pieces of communication — including an email mentioned in the indictment as having been sent by Chesebro to Eastman on January 4, 2021 — to be excluded from evidence. They argued that the documents were protected by attorney-client privilege.[40] On October 10, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis argued that attorney-client privilege should not apply because the documents did not advise Trump on litigation but rather gave him a political strategy to use in Congress to interrupt the transfer of power to Biden. In this argument, she echoed prior rulings of U.S. District Judge David Carter.[41]
On October 20, as jury selection began for his speedy trial, Chesbro took a last-minute plea deal, including a single felony count of conspiracy to file false documents.[42]
Federal prosecution
On August 1, 2023, Trump was indicted in the federal prosecution for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. The indictment mentioned six unidentified co-conspirators.[43] CNN identified "Co-Conspirator No. 5" as Chesebro.[44]
Career after January 6, 2021
Napoli Shkolnik, a New York-based personal injury firm, hired Chesebro in October 2022 to lead their Law and Motions Department. He moved from New York to Puerto Rico, where other attorneys for the firm live. He was released by the firm after being criminally charged for his part in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.[9]
Personal life
In 1994, Chesebro married Emily Stevens,[45] a physician. They divorced in 2016.[46]
See also
List of alleged Georgia election racketeers
This is a list of people directly involved in the Georgia election racketeering prosecution as defendants or unindicted co-conspirators.
Defendants
The 19 defendants named[1] in the indictment[2][3] and some of the allegations against them[4] are:
- Donald Trump, then US president, 13 felonies. Alleged organizer and leader of a criminal enterprise which attempted to fraudulently overturn the results of presidential elections in Georgia and six other states.
- Rudy Giuliani, Trump lawyer, 13 felonies. Accused of "overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy", including falsely telling a Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee that 10,315 dead persons and 2,560 convicted felons cast votes.
- John Eastman, Trump lawyer, 9 felonies. Accusations include: making false statements in a court filing; helping assemble "unlawful" pro-Trump electors.
- Mark Meadows, then White House chief of staff, two felonies. Accusations include soliciting a public officer to violate their oath during the Raffensperger call, telling him, "I can promise you there are more than that", in reference to the state having found only two votes cast by felons.
- Kenneth Chesebro, pro-Trump lawyer, 7 felonies. Charges mainly related to allegedly writing memos and emails describing how Georgia and other states could "convene and cast false Electoral College votes". Politically liberal in college, after earning his law degree he worked on prominent cases such as the Iran–Contra investigation as a deputy special counsel, and Bush v. Gore as research assistant for his former Harvard law professor, Laurence Tribe. However, Chesebro's political views had flipped by 2016 when he assisted Eastman with litigation against birthright citizenship, upon which Trump had been campaigning since 2015. He has been described as the "architect of the election subversion scandal", in large part for writing three memos in 2020—dated November 18,[5] December 6,[6] and December 9[7]—originating the idea of creating "alternate slates of electors" in states Biden had won. In writing the memos, Chesebro claimed to be following the legal views of Tribe and other notable liberal scholars expressly for political purposes, saying that it would be "the height of hypocrisy for Democrats to resist Jan. 6 as the real deadline, or to suggest that Trump and Pence would be doing anything particularly controversial." Tribe rejected the notion that the memos represented his own scholarship, saying that he had been taken out of context, and that his former student is "smart enough to know full well that the scheme he helped to cook up [...] was manifestly criminal."[8][9][10][11][12]
- Jeffrey Clark, then the acting assistant attorney general for the U.S. Justice Department's civil division, two felonies including, "criminal intent to commit false statements and writings". Allegedly "solicited Acting United States Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and Acting United States Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue to sign and send "a letter he had drafted to the state Legislature of Georgia, which falsely claimed the DOJ had "identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States, including the State of Georgia." The request was rejected and the letter was not sent.
- Jenna Ellis, Trump campaign lawyer, two felonies. Accused of soliciting Georgia state senators to violate their oaths of office "by unlawfully appointing presidential electors from the State of Georgia."
- Ray Smith III, Trump campaign attorney, 12 felonies. Accused of: soliciting Georgia state senators to violate their oaths of office "by unlawfully appointing presidential electors from the State of Georgia"; on December 14, 2020, encouraging Trump elector nominees to sign a "Certificate of the Votes of the 2020 Electors from Georgia", despite Trump having lost the election.
- Bob Cheeley, lawyer, 10 felonies. Allegedly participated in the December 14 fraudulent vote certification meeting. Also accused of perjury before a grand jury for testimony related to the same meeting.
- Mike Roman, Trump campaign director, seven felonies. Allegedly he "instructed individuals associated with the Trump Campaign to populate entries on a shared spreadsheet listing Trump presidential elector nominees in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin."
- David Shafer, then Georgia GOP chair and fake elector, eight felonies. Presided over December 14 electoral vote meeting. Accused of wrongfully casting his vote for Trump, and signing the fraudulent electoral vote certificate.
- Shawn Still, seven felonies. Accused of "impersonating a public officer" by posing as a "qualified presidential elector" at December 14 meeting.
The following are mainly indicted for attempting to influence a Fulton County election worker:
- Steve Lee, pastor from Illinois, five felonies. Accused of going to the residence of Fulton County election worker Ruby Freeman "with intent to influence her testimony in an official proceeding in Fulton County".
- Harrison William Prescott Floyd, Black Voices for Trump leader, three felonies, including attempting to influence witnesses. The indictment alleges that Lee asked Floyd to help him speak with Freeman, a black woman, because she was afraid to talk to "a white man". Floyd allegedly told Freeman "that she needed protection and purported to offer her help."
- Trevian Kutti, publicist from Chicago, three felonies. Allegedly participated in the attempts to influence Freeman's testimony. She is accused of: visiting Freeman's home, falsely telling a neighbor that "she was a crisis manager attempting to 'help' Freeman"; meeting with Freeman at the Cobb County PD for over an hour, again under the pretense of offering help; asking Freeman to give false testimony.
The following are mainly indicted for breaching Coffee County election equipment:
- Sidney Powell, Trump campaign lawyer, 7 felonies. She is accused of: making false statements that the election results were fraudulent; contracting SullivanStrickler to collect and analyze data from Dominion Voting Systems equipment in multiple states, ultimately leading to the "unlawful breach of election equipment in Coffee County, Georgia".
- Cathy Latham, former Coffee County GOP leader and fake elector, 11 felonies. Accused of: "felony computer trespass" and "computer invasion of privacy" for breaching Coffee County election equipment to copy their data.
- Scott Graham Hall, bail bondsman, seven felonies. Allegations include: "looking into the election on behalf of [Trump]". He has been described in the press as being "at the center of the breach of election equipment in Coffee County".[4]
- Misty Hampton (a.k.a Emily Misty Hayes), then the Coffee County elections supervisor, seven felonies. According to the Washington Post, shortly after the election, she produced a viral video[13] allegedly documenting vulnerabilities in Dominion Voting Systems equipment. She told the Post that Hall and the other defendants had not gone into a room containing touch-screen voting machines, but had no knowledge of whether they had been in the server room containing the computer that tabulates ballots.[14] She is accused of "willfully and unlawfully tampering with electronic ballot markers and tabulating machines" and "unlawful possession of ballots," along with Latham, Hall, and Powell.
There is overlap with the co-conspirators mentioned in the federal indictment of Trump issued two weeks earlier. In the federal indictment, Giuliani was listed as co-conspirator No. #1, Eastman was #2, Powell was #3, Clark was #4, and Chesebro was #5. All five of these people, though not charged in the federal prosecution, are charged as co-defendants in the Georgia prosecution. (Co-conspirator No. #6 in the federal indictment has not yet been conclusively identified by the public.)
Unindicted co-conspirators
The indictment references 30 "unindicted co-conspirators" who allegedly participated in some of the same criminal activities with the 19 defendants. These 30 people are not named in the indictment, but referred to by number. CNN, Just Security, The Washington Post and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution independently cross-referenced details in the indictment with already public information which does name the involved individuals, allowing many of them to be identified.[15][16][17][18]
- 1. Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch. According to the January 6 committee, he discussed a draft of Trump's November 4, 2020 speech, "falsely declaring victory in the 2020 presidential election" four days previously.
- 2. Unknown. Fake elector. See 12–19 below.
- 3. Boris Epshteyn, Trump political adviser, member of Giuliani's legal team. Allegedly included in two email exchanges with Eastman and Chesebro, one of which was a draft memo for actions to take on January 6.
- 4. Robert Sinners, Georgia election day operations lead for Trump. After the election, he allegedly coordinated with Shafer and Hall related to the Coffee County breach. In October 2022, it was reported that Sinners had renounced Trump's election conspiracies after listening to the recorded Raffensperger call and had been hired as Raffensperger's communications director to help build up trust in the 2022 midterm elections.[19]
- 5. Bernard Kerik, former NYPD Commissioner. Allegedly, he: participated in meetings with legislators in Pennsylvania and Arizona; received an email on December 8, copied to Giuliani, from a Republican activist, Bill White, containing the contact information for Georgia Senate leaders. CNN confirmed with Kerik's attorney, Tim Parlator, that he is the person so-identified.
- 6. Phil Waldron, GOP political operative. He allegedly: participated in a White House meeting with Trump, Meadows, Giuliani, and Ellis to ask a group of Pennsylvania lawmakers to appoint Trump electors; was among three people to receive data from Michigan's Dominion Systems voting equipment; also discussed investigations of voter fraud in Arizona and Georgia.
- 7. Unknown. Allegedly one of several people working with Roman, who contacted Georgia state legislators to appoint fake electors.
- 8. Burt Jones, current Lt. Governor of Georgia, then a state senator, fake elector. Identified by a December 7, 2020 tweet quoted in the indictment calling for Georgia voters to demand that "every legal vote is counted", which Giuliani re-tweeted. The indictment mentions Jones over a dozen times, including the allegation of being a fake elector. The executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia, Pete Skandalakis, intends to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Jones. In 2022, a judge prevented Willis from investigating Jones.
- 9. Joseph Brannan, then Georgia Republican Party Treasurer, fake elector. Allegedly received an email from Chesebro "to help coordinate with the other 5 contested States", and several other emails related to prepare for the fake electors meeting on December 14, 2020.
- 10 and 11. Carolyn Hall Fisher and Vikki Consiglio, respectively assistant treasurer and first vice chairperson for the Georgia GOP. They allegedly: received an email from Chesebro, copied to Shafer and Brannan, containing the documents used to create fake elector certificates; served as fake Georgia electors.
- 12–19. Fake electors. Individual 12 allegedly discussed the plan to
cast bogus electoral votes two days prior to the December 14 meeting.
Of the 16 fake electors,[20][21]
three were indicted, the nine remaining ones are unnamed in the
charging document, but are numbered 2 and 12–19, accounting for all
nine. Publicly available information has not conclusively tied them to a
specific unindicted co-conspirator.
- Mark Amick: member of the Georgia Republican Foundation board of governors, and unsuccessful candidate for Milton city council in 2019. Was a poll-watcher during the 2020 election and later testified that during the first recount he had witnessed more than 9,000 votes erroneously assigned to Biden.
- James "Ken" Carroll: assistant secretary for the Georgia GOP during the election. Previously served in other roles for the party.
- Brad Carver: attorney, Republican National Lawyers Association member, practices law related to energy, environment and utilities.
- John Downey: Cobb County GOP district chair.
- Gloria Kay Godwin: local GOP leader in Blackshear. Co-founded Georgia Conservatives in Action.
- David G. Hanna: co-founder of Atlanticus Holdings Corp., and its CEO until March 2021.
- Mark W. Hennessy: appointee to the Georgia Board of Natural Resources and CEO of several Atlanta car dealerships.
- Daryl Moody: attorney, Georgia Republican Foundation chair, and GOP donor.
- C. B. Yadav: Camden County business owner, Georgians First Commission member, campaign volunteer for Brian Kemp's run for governor.
- 20. Not conclusively identified by either CNN or Just Security, therefore not named here. They both agree on two possibles, and Just Security proposes a third. This person allegedly attended a meeting on December 18, 2020, with Trump, Giuliani and Powell at the White House to discuss plans for overturning the election results.
- 21–22. Conan Hayes and Todd Sanders. Associated with a conservative advocacy group called Byrne's America Project, which donated funds to the Arizona ballot "audit". In a December 21, 2020 email, Powell allegedly instructed the COO of SullivanStrickler, Paul Maggio, to immediately send Individual 6 (Waldron) and Individuals 21 and 22 copies of data obtained from Dominion voting machines in Wayne County, Michigan.[22]
- 23. Unknown. Allegedly involved with the Coffee County voting data breach along with Individuals 24–30, who have all been identified via public records. The indictment indicates that 23 also received a phone call from Floyd on January 3, 2021, in relation to the harassment of Freeman.
- 24. Alex Cruce. Allegedly flew to Coffee County with Hall to meet with election officials, and assisted with the election data breach there.
- 25 and 29. Doug Logan, Cyber Ninjas CEO; Jeffrey Lenberg, Cyber Ninjas analyst. Hampton allegedly granted them both access to restricted areas in the Coffee County elections office on January 18, 2021, as seen on surveillance video obtained by CNN. Logan also led Cyber Ninja's "audit" of Maricopa County, Arizona's 2020 ballots.
- 26. Todd Sanders. Allegedly downloaded Coffee County election data from SullivianStrickler.
- 27. Conan Hayes. Also listed as unindicted co-conspirator 21. Allegedly downloaded Coffee County voting data from SullivanStrickler.
- 28. Jim Penrose. Allegedly emailed Maggio and requested that he send Coffee County election data to Powell and Lambert. A former employee of the National Security Agency.
- 30. Stefanie Lambert. Pro-Trump lawyer from Michigan. Named in an email from Penrose asking SullivanStrickler to send her Coffee County election data. In early August 2023, she was charged with four Michigan state felony counts related to unauthorized access to voting machines and their data.[23]
Special grand jury recommendations
The special grand jury recommended 39 people be charged, of which only 19 were actually charged in the indictment. Many of the others have been identified as unindicted co-conspirators: Epshteyn (3), Jones (8), Brannan (9), Consiglio and Fisher (10 and 11), Amick, Carver, Downey, Godwin, Hennessy, and Yadav (2 and 12–19). The remaining people may or may not be an unidentified co-conspirator listed above:[24][25]
- Jacki Pick
- Lin Wood
- Michael Flynn
- William Ligon
- Cleta Mitchell
- Kurt Hilbert
- David Perdue
- Alex Kaufman
- Kelly Loeffler
- Lindsey Graham
Sidney Powell vowed to ‘release the Kraken’ to help Donald Trump. She may now testify against him
FILE - Attorney Sidney Powell, an attorney
for Donald Trump, speaks during in Alpharetta, Ga., Dec. 2, 2020.
Lawyer Sidney Powell pleads guilty as part of deal with prosecutors over
efforts to overturn Trump’s loss in Georgia. (AP Photo/Ben Margot,
File) Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Posted Oct 19, 2023 05:22:38 PM.
Last Updated Oct 19, 2023 06:11:15 PM.
NEW YORK (AP) — The Kraken has cracked.
Lawyer Sidney Powell, who famously vowed to unleash a mythical sea monster of litigation to prove that Donald Trump didn’t lose the 2020 election, has now struck a deal with Georgia prosecutors admitting she conspired to wrongly interfere with the state’s election results.
Her guilty plea Thursday culminates a three-year journey in which she pursued baseless and often outlandish theories in the weeks before a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Along the way, Powell was part of several key events in the state and federal indictments against Trump for his conduct in the 2020 election and now becomes a potential witness against him.
She’s the second person to take a plea after bail bondsman Scott Graham Hall pleaded guilty last month.
“Sidney Powell was part of Trump’s inner circle at various points in the criminal conspiracy, particularly as Trump became more desperate in the final weeks of his presidency,” Bradley P. Moss, a Washington-based national security attorney who opposes Trump, said in an email. “Her testimony, more than peripheral players like Scott Hall, will provide first-person insight into those critical moments in her part of the larger conspiracy. Powell’s role is only one prong but as dominoes continue to fall it is likely those other prongs will also be corroborated by Trump’s other co-defendants.”
Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead attorney in the Georgia case, expressed confidence about Powell’s plea. “Assuming truthful testimony in the Fulton County case, it will be favorable to my overall defense strategy,” he said.
Powell, 68, served as a federal prosecutor before becoming a high-profile defense attorney in Dallas. She was a well-known critic of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of alleged ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 campaign.
She rose in Trump’s orbit thanks to her representation of Michael Flynn, the retired general who has become a star on the far right. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his Russian contacts during the 2016 transition period as he was entering Trump’s administration as national security adviser.
Powell fought to withdraw Flynn’s guilty plea and, after the Justice Department dropped the prosecution in May 2020, repeatedly argued that the judge in the case could not contest the government’s decision and had no choice but to dismiss the matter. Trump ultimately pardoned Flynn in the final weeks of his presidency.
By then, Powell was attacking the integrity of the 2020 election.
Trump’s former attorney general said the Justice Department found no evidence of fraud that could change the election result. An Associated Press review published in December 2021 tallied every potential case of voter fraud in six battleground states and found fewer than 475, nowhere near the margin required to affect any results.
But in a Fox Business interview that November, Powell declared: “I’m going to release the Kraken.” Her comment quickly became notorious and her reference to the mythical sea monster only heightened the fantastical nature of the effort.
Trump’s campaign legal team distanced itself from her after an outlandish news conference days later. She took the stage after an appearance from Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani as dark streaks of what appeared to be hair dye streamed down his face. She launched into a theory about election software having been created in Venezuela “at the direction of Hugo Chavez” — the Venezuelan president who died in 2013.
Powell also claimed in a different interview that she would “blow up” Georgia” with a “biblical” election lawsuit.
She filed suits in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona, all states that went for Biden in 2020. They recycled debunked claims about fraud and were riddled with typos and factual mistakes, leading to mocking on social media.
Despite losing her role on the campaign legal team, she remained in Trump’s orbit. She also participated in a fateful Dec. 18, 2020 session in the Oval Office that became central to investigations of the Capitol insurrection.
Along with Flynn, Powell suggested that Trump order the U.S. military to seize voting machines in the states, according to the report produced by the U.S. House committee that investigated Jan. 6. The meeting, which also involved the former head of the online retail company Overstock, devolved into shouting and screaming as White House lawyers and other officials tried to intervene, according to Jan. 6 committee testimony.
Trump considered naming her as a special counsel to investigate allegations of voter fraud, according to the committee.
Powell was later sued by voting technology firm Dominion Voter Systems for defamation. That lawsuit is ongoing.
In Michigan, another state where Trump’s outside lawyers sought to challenge election results, a state watchdog filed a complaint earlier this year saying that Powell and others on Trump’s team abused the court system with a “frivolous” lawsuit.
The State Bar of Texas, a state where Powell is licensed to practice law, filed a petition accusing Powell of misconduct by filing “frivolous” voter fraud lawsuits in four states and sought to discipline her, but a judge earlier this year dismissed the case, according to The Dallas Morning News.
Powell was initially charged in Georgia with racketeering and other counts as part of a scheme to overturn Trump’s loss in Georgia in the election. Prosecutors say she also played a role in the unauthorized breach of election equipment in an elections office in the state.
She is referenced, though not named, as one of six unindicted co-conspirators in special counsel Jack Smith’s federal case charging the former president with plotting to overturn the election.
Powell’s attorney declined to comment on Thursday. But ultimately, as part of her plea deal with prosecutors, she will serve six years of probation and pay a $6,000 fine.
She will also have to write a letter of apology to the state of Georgia and its residents.
Lawrence Norden, the senior director of the Elections and Government Program at the Brennan Center of Justice, said that with another presidential election looming next year, Powell’s guilty plea sends an important message.
“I do think the guilty plea here is an important reminder to election officials but also the public more generally that you can’t just engage in illegal interference in elections and not expect that there will be consequences,” he said.
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Associated Press writer Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.
Michelle L. Price, The Associated Press
Attn Steve Sadow I called about Trump et al
David Amos<david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> | Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 6:11 PM |
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On 10/19/23, Steve Sadow <stevesadow@gmail.com> wrote: > Steve Sadow, lead counsel for President Trump in the Fulton County, GA RICO > case commented: “Assuming truthful testimony in the Fulton County case, it > will be favorable to my overall defense strategy.” > > Steve Sadow > 404-577-1400 office > 404-242-9440 cell > > > > >> On Oct 19, 2023, at 2:51 PM, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail. >> wrote: >> >> https://davidraymondamos3. >> >> Thursday, 19 October 2023 >> >> Sidney Powell, who made false election claims for Trump, pleads guilty >> ahead of trial >> >> https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ >> >> Sidney Powell, who made false election claims for Trump, pleads guilty >> ahead of trial >> Powell appears likely to avoid prison time if she testifies truthfully >> for prosecutors >> >> The Associated Press · Posted: Oct 19, 2023 12:07 PM ADT >> | |
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Steve Sadow<stevesadow@gmail.com> | Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 5:03 PM |
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Steve
Sadow, lead counsel for President Trump in the Fulton County, GA RICO
case commented: “Assuming truthful testimony in the Fulton County case,
it will be favorable to my overall defense strategy.” Steve Sadow 404-577-1400 office 404-242-9440 cell
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https://davidraymondamos3. Thursday, 19 October 2023 Sidney Powell, who made false election claims for Trump, pleads guilty ahead of trial https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ | |
Sidney Powell, who made false election claims for Trump, pleads guilty ahead of trial
Powell appears likely to avoid prison time if she testifies truthfully for prosecutors
Lawyer Sidney Powell pleaded guilty to reduced charges in Atlanta Thursday over efforts to overturn Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 election in Georgia, becoming the second defendant in the sprawling case to reach a deal with prosecutors.
Powell, who was charged alongside Trump and 17 others with violating the state's anti-racketeering law, entered the plea just a day before jury selection was set to start in her trial. She pleaded guilty to six misdemeanours related to intentionally interfering with the performance of election duties.
As part of the deal, she will serve six years of probation, will be fined $6,000 and will have to write an apology letter to Georgia and its residents. She also agreed to testify truthfully against her co-defendants at future trials.
Powell, 68, was initially charged with racketeering and six other counts as part of a wide-ranging scheme to keep the Republican U.S. president in power after he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden. Prosecutors say she also participated in an unauthorized breach of elections equipment in a rural Georgia county elections office.
The acceptance of a plea deal is a remarkable about-face for a lawyer who, perhaps more than anyone else, strenuously pushed baseless conspiracy theories about a stolen election in the face of extensive evidence to the contrary.
If prosecutors compel her to testify, she could provide insight on a news conference she participated in on behalf of Trump and his campaign shortly after the election and on a White House meeting she attended in mid-December of that year during which strategies and theories to influence the outcome of the election were discussed.
Barry Coburn, a Washington-based lawyer for Powell, declined to comment on Thursday.
Steve Sadow, the lead attorney for Trump in the Georgia case, expressed confidence after Powell's plea.
"Assuming truthful testimony in the Fulton County case, it will be favourable to my overall defence strategy," he said, without elaborating.
Tampering with election equipment
Powell was scheduled to go on trial on Monday with lawyer Kenneth Chesebro after each filed a demand for a speedy trial. Jury selection was set to start Friday.
A lower-profile defendant in the case, bail bondsman Scott Graham Hall, last month pleaded guilty to five misdemeanour charges. He was sentenced to five years of probation and agreed to testify in further proceedings.
This
Jan. 7, 2021, image taken from Coffee County, Ga., security video,
appears to show Cathy Latham, county Republican chair, centre,
introducing members of a computer forensic team to local election
officials. The forensics team arrived to make copies of voting equipment
in an effort arranged by Powell. (Coffee County/The Associated Press)
Prosecutors allege that Powell conspired with Hall and others to access election equipment without authorization and hired computer forensics firm SullivanStrickler to send a team to Coffee County, in south Georgia, to copy software and data from voting machines and computers there.
The indictment says a person who is not named sent an email to a top SullivanStrickler executive and instructed him to send all data copied from Dominion Voting Systems equipment in Coffee County to an unidentified lawyer associated with Powell and the Trump campaign.
At public appearances in the election aftermath, Powell falsely claimed that votes cast on Dominion machines were flipped from Trump to Biden, that a server containing votes was found in Europe, and that the software used by Dominion and Smartmatic, another voting technology company, was created in Venezuela at the direction of the late autocrat Hugo Chavez to make sure he never lost an election.
Smartmatic and Dominion, which was founded several years ago in Toronto, have filed defamation suits against several individuals related to public statements after the 2020 vote, including Powell and former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
Powell and Giuliani were among the lawyers behind the cases claiming a conspiracy by Democrats, despite Republican state leaders, and Trump's own attorney general and other administration officials, publicly stating there was no major election fraud. Dozens of challenges to election results across the U.S. by Trump advocates were tossed by the courts.
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video of a deposition by Powell is shown on July 12, 2022, during a
hearing held by a House of Representatives committee investigating the
aftermath of the 2020 election and the subsequent riot at the U.S.
Capitol. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
Some of those suits have been deemed frivolous. A federal appeals court judge ruling earlier this year that Powell and five other lawyers are to pay $152,000 US in sanctions for election fraud suits filed in Michigan.
After Powell threatened to "blow up" Georgia with a "biblical" court filing, the Trump legal team distanced itself from her, saying she was not working on their behalf. She later made the comment on how she would release "the Kraken," an apparent reference to the film Clash of the Titans, in which Zeus gives the order to release the mythical sea monster.
With files from CBC News
Trump tells judge he "may" ask to move Georgia case to federal court
Former President Trump at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in August 2023. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Former President Trump told a Fulton County judge on Thursday that he "may" ask to move his prosecution on criminal charges related to his alleged efforts to subvert Georgia's 2020 election results to federal court.
Why it matters: Thursday's filing indicates that the former president and his legal team might be following the example of multiple of his co-defendants, including his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, who have requested that their cases be moved to a federal court.
- One major difference between the case being held in a federal court house would be the public's access to the trial. A Fulton County judge ruled that all court proceedings in the case will be televised, while federal courts do not allow cameras inside the courtroom.
- Another big difference is the jury pool. The jury in Fulton County would be drawn from in and around Atlanta, a Democratic-leaning area, where the jury pool would be broader for a federal case.
- Trump's argument for moving the case to federal court could revolve around the fact that he was a federal official at the time he allegedly committed the crimes in question.
What they're saying: Steve Sadow, Trump's Atlanta attorney, said in a short, two-page notice that the former president can formally request the move within 30 days of his written arraignment waiver, which he submitted on Aug. 31.
The big picture: Trump last week pleaded not guilty to the 41 felony counts against him, which include racketeering charges, conspiracy to commit forgery and perjury.
- All of his 18 co-defendants have pleaded not guilty, as well.
- Meadows, former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, Georgia state senator Shawn Still, fake GOP elector Cathy Latham and former Georgia Republican Party chair David Shafer are all working to move their cases to federal court.
Go deeper: Willis asks court to protect jurors after doxing in Trump's Georgia case
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Fwd: ATTN Sidney Powell et al I just called your office in Texas and many of your associates within the Dec 11th filings
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ Sidney Powell, who made false election claims for Trump, pleads guilty ahead of trial Powell appears likely to avoid prison time if she testifies truthfully for prosecutors The Associated Press · Posted: Oct 19, 2023 12:07 PM ADT https://www. phone (202) 643-9472 email barry@coburngreenbaum.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail. Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 16:27:43 -0400 Subject: Fwd: ATTN Sidney Powell et al I just called your office in Texas and many of your associates within the Dec 11th filings To: sidney@federalappeals.com, howard@kleinhendler.com, lwood@fightback.law, attorneystefanielambert@gmail. eldridge@millercanfield.com, dshare@bsdd.com, erosenberg@lawyerscommittee. grille@michigan.gov, dbressack@finkbressack.com, aap43@hotmail.com, megurewitz@gmail.com, James@jamesfetzer.com, info@lionelmedia.com, liveneedtoknow@gmail.com, tips@steeltruth.com, media@steeltruth.com, press@deepcapture.com, bbachrach <bbachrach@bachrachlaw.net>, Norman Traversy <traversy.n@gmail.com> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, "ron.klain" <ron.klain@revolution.com>, bgaier@finance-commerce.com, fin.financepublic- info@thomasmoresociety.org, info@rleighfrostlaw.com, cferrara@thomasmoresociety.org mjnew@nationalreview.com, info@aul.org, pr@cato.org, "robert.frater" <robert.frater@justice.gc.ca>, keith.ward@justice.gc.ca, "jan.jensen" <jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca>, cxiong@startribune.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ministerial Correspondence Unit - Justice Canada <mcu@justice.gc.ca> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:07:58 +0000 Subject: Automatic Reply To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> Thank you for writing to the Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. 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Nous ne répondons pas à la correspondance contenant un langage offensant. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:08:11 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: FWD ATTN Sidney Powell et al I just called your office in Texas and many of your associates within the Dec 11th filings To: motomaniac333@gmail.com Thank you very much for reaching out to the Office of the Hon. Bill Blair, Member of Parliament for Scarborough Southwest. Please be advised that as a health and safety precaution, our constituency office will not be holding in-person meetings until further notice. We will continue to provide service during our regular office hours, both over the phone and via email. Due to the high volume of emails and calls we are receiving, our office prioritizes requests on the basis of urgency and in relation to our role in serving the constituents of Scarborough Southwest. If you are not a constituent of Scarborough Southwest, please reach out to your local of Member of Parliament for assistance. To find your local MP, visit: https://www.ourcommons.ca/ Moreover, at this time, we ask that you please only call our office if your case is extremely urgent. We are experiencing an extremely high volume of calls, and will better be able to serve you through email. Should you have any questions related to COVID-19, please see: www.canada.ca/coronavirus<http Thank you again for your message, and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Best, MP Staff to the Hon. Bill Blair Parliament Hill: 613-995-0284 Constituency Office: 416-261-8613 bill.blair@parl.gc.ca<mailto:b ** Merci beaucoup d'avoir pris contact avec le bureau de l'Honorable Bill Blair, D?put? de Scarborough-Sud-Ouest. Veuillez noter que par mesure de pr?caution en mati?re de sant? et de s?curit?, notre bureau de circonscription ne tiendra pas de r?unions en personne jusqu'? nouvel ordre. Nous continuerons ? fournir des services pendant nos heures de bureau habituelles, tant par t?l?phone que par courrier ?lectronique. En raison du volume ?lev? de courriels que nous recevons, notre bureau classe les demandes par ordre de priorit? en fonction de leur urgence et de notre r?le dans le service aux ?lecteurs de Scarborough Sud-Ouest. Si vous n'?tes pas un ?lecteur de Scarborough Sud-Ouest, veuillez contacter votre d?put? local pour obtenir de l'aide. Pour trouver votre d?put? local, visitez le site:https://www.noscommunes. En outre, nous vous demandons de ne t?l?phoner ? notre bureau que si votre cas est extr?mement urgent. Nous recevons un volume d'appels extr?mement ?lev? et nous serons mieux ? m?me de vous servir par courrier ?lectronique. Si vous avez des questions concernant COVID-19, veuillez consulter le site : http://www.canada.ca/le- Merci encore pour votre message, et nous vous r?pondrons d?s que possible. Cordialement, Personnel du D?put? de l'Honorable Bill Blair Colline du Parlement : 613-995-0284 Bureau de Circonscription : 416-261-8613 bill.blair@parl.gc.ca<mailto:b < mailto:bill.blair@parl.gc.ca> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Newsroom <newsroom@globeandmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:11:47 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: FWD ATTN Sidney Powell et al I just called your office in Texas and many of your associates within the Dec 11th filings To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> Thank you for contacting The Globe and Mail. If your matter pertains to newspaper delivery or you require technical support, please contact our Customer Service department at 1-800-387-5400 or send an email to customerservice@globeandmail. If you are reporting a factual error please forward your email to publiceditor@globeandmail.com< Letters to the Editor can be sent to letters@globeandmail.com This is the correct email address for requests for news coverage and press releases. Below is a true copy of my latest email It was sent today to Sidney Powell byway of her webpage format The lawyers found below will get regular email just like I have done with you people (I already called them all and spoke to some and left messages with the rest) Perhaps all you lawyers should check my work from years ago and call me back ASAP??? https://www.scribd.com/doc/ On 12/13/20, Pam Stavropoulos <pstavropoulos@iprimus.com.au> wrote: > Thank you David! > > Really appreciate wide dissemination of these concerns as you clearly > recognise. > > Regards, > > Pam S. > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Raymond Amos <pstavropoulos@iprimus.com.au> > Sent: Monday, 14 December 2020 2:16 PM > To: pstavropoulos@iprimus.com.au > Subject: Contact Form submission from > http://pamstavropoulos.com.au/ > > Sender's name: David Raymond Amos > E-mail: David.Raymond.Amos333@gmail. > Phone: 506 434 8433 > > Message: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos > Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 23:14:01 -0400 > Subject: ATTN Yanis Varoufakis and Pam Stavropoulos I just tweeted about > your concerns about Julian Assange and global economy etc > To: y.varoufakis@parliament.gr > Cc: motomaniac333 > > Yanis Varoufakis > Web Site: > https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu > Email: > y.varoufakis@parliament.gr > Address: > Parliament Mansion (Megaro Voulis), GR10021 > Athens / Tel. +30 2103707568 / Fax +30 2103707570. > > Check out the attachment for USA litigation over 18 years ago > > > Please notice that the webcasts and transcripts of this hearing went > missing not long before the economy crashed in 2008 Find the letter > fom Spitzer to me on page 12 within the document I offer as > "Integrity-Yea-Right" and ask yourself why Assaage has never metioned > me In fact I bet that you folks won't either > > https://www.banking.senate. > > Review of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the > Mutual Fund Industry > > Date: Thursday, November 20, 2003 > > Witness Panel 1 > > Mr. Stephen M. Cutler > Director - Division of Enforcement > Securities and Exchange Commission > Cutler - November 20, 2003 > Mr. Robert Glauber > Chairman and CEO > National Association of Securities Dealers > Glauber - November 20, 2003 > Eliot Spitzer > Attorney General > State of New York > Spitzer - November 20, 2003 > > > > Yanis Varoufakis > @yanisvaroufakis > · > > Law and Disorder: The case of Julian Assange - DiEM25 > The conviction of Julian Assange would signify a new dystopian > landscape in which all investigative journalism risks prosecution. > diem25.org > > David Raymond Amos > @DavidRaymondAm1 > · > 1h > Perhaps you and I should have a long talk ASAP? > > FYI this old pdf file is the tip of the iceberg of things that Bolton > and Assange have known about yours truly for many years > > https://www.scribd.com/doc/ > > David Raymond Amos > @DavidRaymondAm1 > · > 41m > The first link I offer in the blog Greece is among the many that > received hundreds of documents byway of registered US Mail as I > returned home to run for public office 6 more times while suing the > Queen > > > http://davidraymondamos3. > > Notice Assange and Trumps lawyer's email before they became famous? > > > http://thedavidamosrant. > > From: Birgitta Jonsdottir > Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 07:14:02 +0000 > Subject: Re: Bon Soir Birgitta according to my records this is the > first email I ever sent you > To: David Amos > > dear Dave > i have got your email and will read through the links as soon as i > find some time keep up the good fight in the meantime > > thank you for bearing with me > i am literary drowning in requests to look into all sorts of matters > and at the same time working 150% work at the parliament and > the creation of a political movement and being a responsible parent:) > plus all the matters in relation to immi > > with oceans of joy > birgitta > > Better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are > not. > > Andre Gide > > Birgitta Jonsdottir > Birkimelur 8, 107 Reykjavik, Iceland, tel: 354 692 8884 > http://this.is/birgitta – http://joyb.blogspot.com - > http://www.facebook.com/ > >>>> From: "Julian Assange)" editor@wikileaks.org >>>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com >>>> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 3:15 PM >>>> Subject: Al Jazeera on Iceland's plan for a press safe haven >>>> >>>> FYI: Al-Jazeera's take on Iceland's proposed media safe haven >>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch? >>>> >>>> More info http://immi.is/ >>>> >>>> Julian Assange Editor WikiLeaks http://wikileaks.org/ >>>> >>>> From: "David Amos" david.raymond.amos@gmail.com >>>> To: "Julian Assange)" editor@wikileaks.org >>>> Cc: "Dan Fitzgerald" danf@danf.net; "Byrne. G" Byrne.G@parl.gc.ca >>>> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 8:35 PM >>>> Subject: Re: Al Jazeera on Iceland's new plan Thanx Here is >>>> something >>>> about Iceland and Banksters Al Jazeera would enjoy >>>> >>>> Checkout this old pdf file from 2005 at about page two or three >>>> >>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/ >>>> >>>> Then read on and chuckle >>>> >>>> From: postur@fjr.stjr.is >>>> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 >>>> Subject: Re: RE: Iceland and Bankers etc I must ask the obvious >>>> question. Why have you people ignored me for three years? >>>> To: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com >>>> >>>> Dear David Amos >>>> >>>> Unfortunately there has been a considerable delay in responding to >>>> incoming letters due to heavy workload and many inquiries to our >>>> office. >>>> >>>> We appreciate the issue raised in your letter. We have set up a web >>>> site www.iceland.org where we have gathered various practical >>>> information regarding the economic crisis in Iceland. >>>> >>>> Greetings from the Ministry of Finance. >>>> >>>> Tilvísun í mál: FJR08100024 >>>> >>>> From: postur@for.stjr.is >>>> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 >>>> Subject: Regarding your enquiry to the Prime Ministry of Iceland >>>> To: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com >>>> >>>> David Raymond Amos >>>> >>>> Your enquiry has been received by the Prime Ministry of Iceland and >>>> waits attendance. >>>> >>>> Thank you. >>>> >>>> From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com >>>> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 >>>> Subject: I just called to remind the Speaker, the Bankers and the >>>> Icelanders that I still exist EH Mrs Mrechant, Bob Rae and Iggy? >>>> To: Milliken.P@parl.gc.ca, sjs@althingi.is, emb.ottawa@mfa.is, >>>> rmellish@pattersonlaw.ca, irisbirgisdottir@yahoo.ca, >>>> marie@mariemorneau.com, dfranklin@franklinlegal.com, >>>> egilla@althingi.is, william.turner@exsultate.ca >>>> Cc: Rae.B@parl.gc.ca, Ignatieff.M@parl.gc.ca, lebrem@sen.parl.gc.ca, >>>> merchp@sen.parl.gc.ca, coolsa@sen.parl.gc.ca, olived@sen.parl.gc.ca >>>> >>>> All of you should review the documents and CD that came with this >>>> letter ASAP EH? >>>> >>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/ >>>> >>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/ >>>> >>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/ >>>> >>>> Perhaps Geir Haarde and Steingrimur Sigfusson should call me back >>>> >>>> Veritas Vincit >>>> David Raymond Amos >>>> >>>> The Reykjavík Grapevine >>>> Hafnarstræti 15 >>>> 101 Reykjavík >>>> Iceland >>>> grapevine@grapevine.is >>>> +354-540-3600 > > http://davidraymondamos3. > > Wednesday, 2 August 2017 > > Attn Andrey Dvornikov, tel. (+7) 499 244 32 54 RE Nikki Haley meeting > with Vasily Nebeznya.Russia's new ambassador to the United Nations, > This was the pdf file attached to the email found below > > https://www.scribd.com/ > > > > ---------- Original message ---------- > From: "MAY, Theresa" theresa.may.mp@parliament.uk > Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 12:12:24 +0000 > Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Andrey Dvornikov, tel. (+7) 499 244 32 > 54 RE Nikki Haley meeting with Vasily Nebeznya.Russia's new ambassador > to the United Nations, > To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com > > If your email is to the Prime Minister, please re-send to the No 10 > website: > www.gov.uk/government/ > > http://www.gov.uk/government/ > > > If you are a constituent of the Prime Minister, please re-send to: > sharkeyj@parliament.uk > > UK Parliament Disclaimer: This e-mail is confidential to the intended > recipient. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender > and delete it from your system. 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Trump I just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why does he lie to me after all this time??? To: David Amos The Department of Finance acknowledges receipt of your electronic correspondence. Please be assured that we appreciate receiving your comments. Le ministère des Finances accuse réception de votre correspondance électronique. Soyez assuré(e) que nous apprécions recevoir vos commentaires. ---------- Original message ---------- From: Póstur FOR Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:51:41 +0000 Subject: Re: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump I just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why does he lie to me after all this time??? To: David Amos Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið / Your request has been received Kveðja / Best regards Forsætisráðuneytið / Prime Minister's Office ---------- Original message ---------- From: "B English (MIN)" Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:51:29 +0000 Subject: Automated response from the office of Hon Bill English To: David Amos Thank you for your email to the Prime Minister. This is an automated response. Please be assured that any matters you raise in your email will be noted; however, not all messages will receive an individual response. Yours sincerely The Office of the Prime Minister ---------- Original message ---------- From: PmInvites Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:52:50 +0000 Subject: PM Invites To: David Amos Thank you for your invitation/meeting request to the Prime Minister, the Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP. Your invitation will be considered in light of the Prime Minister's existing commitments. 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If you are a Wentworth constituent, please make us aware of this and my electorate office team in Edgecliff will be in touch. Regards, Malcolm Turnbull Prime Minister ---------- Original message ---------- From: David Amos Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:51:14 -0400 Subject: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump I just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why does he lie to me after all this time??? To: president , mdcohen212@gmail.com, pm , Pierre-Luc.Dusseault@parl.gc. B.English@ministers.govt.nz, Malcolm.Turnbull.MP@aph.gov.au pminvites@pmc.gov.au, mayt@parliament.uk, press , "Andrew.Bailey" , fin.financepublic- "CNN.Viewer.Communications. Cc: David Amos , elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca, "justin.ling@vice.com, elizabeththompson" , djtjr , "Bill.Morneau" , postur , stephen.kimber@ukings.ca, "steve.murphy" , "Jacques.Poitras" , oldmaison , andre > ---------- Original message ---------- > From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:15:59 -0400 > Subject: Hey Ralph Goodale perhaps you and the RCMP should call the > Yankees Governor Charlie Baker, his lawyer Bob Ross, Rachael Rollins > and this cop Robert Ridge (857 259 9083) ASAP EH Mr Primme Minister > Trudeau the Younger and Donald Trump Jr? > To: pm@pm.gc.ca, Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca, > Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca, djtjr@trumporg.com, > Donald.J.Trump@donaldtrump.com > Frank.McKenna@td.com, barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, > Douglas.Johnson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca > washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, > gov.press@state.ma.us, bob.ross@state.ma.us, jfurey@nbpower.com, > jfetzer@d.umn.edu, Newsroom@globeandmail.com, sfine@globeandmail.com, > .Poitras@cbc.ca, steve.murphy@ctv.ca, David.Akin@globalnews.ca, > Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, news@kingscorecord.com, > news@dailygleaner.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com, jbosnitch@gmail.com, > andre@jafaust.com> > Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail. > wharrison@nbpower.com, David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca, > Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc. > >>> From: Justice Website <JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca> >>> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:21:11 +0000 >>> Subject: Emails to Department of Justice and Province of Nova Scotia >>> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com> >>> >>> Mr. Amos, >>> We acknowledge receipt of your recent emails to the Deputy Minister of >>> Justice and lawyers within the Legal Services Division of the >>> Department of Justice respecting a possible claim against the Province >>> of Nova Scotia. Service of any documents respecting a legal claim >>> against the Province of Nova Scotia may be served on the Attorney >>> General at 1690 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS. Please note that we will >>> not be responding to further emails on this matter. >>> >>> Department of Justice >>> >>> On 8/3/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> If want something very serious to download and laugh at as well Please >>>> Enjoy and share real wiretap tapes of the mob >>>> >>>> http://thedavidamosrant. >>>> ilian.html >>>> >>>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ >>>>> >>>>> As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I must >>>>> ask them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING???? >>>>> >>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch? >>>>> >>>>> What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon the >>>>> USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament baseball >>>>> cards? >>>>> >>>>> http://archive.org/details/ >>>>> 6 >>>>> >>>>> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/ >>>>> >>>>> http://www.archive.org/ >>>>> >>>>> http://archive.org/details/ >>>>> >>>>> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006 >>>>> Senator Arlen Specter >>>>> United States Senate >>>>> Committee on the Judiciary >>>>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building >>>>> Washington, DC 20510 >>>>> >>>>> Dear Mr. Specter: >>>>> >>>>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man >>>>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters >>>>> raised in the attached letter. >>>>> >>>>> Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire tap >>>>> tapes. >>>>> >>>>> I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this previously. >>>>> >>>>> Very truly yours, >>>>> Barry A. Bachrach >>>>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403 >>>>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003 >>>>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com >>>>> >>>> >>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com >>>> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:32:09 -0400 >>>> Subject: Attn Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C., >>>> To: coi@gnb.ca >>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com >>>> >>>> Good Day Sir >>>> >>>> After I heard you speak on CBC I called your office again and managed >>>> to speak to one of your staff for the first time >>>> >>>> Please find attached the documents I promised to send to the lady who >>>> answered the phone this morning. Please notice that not after the Sgt >>>> at Arms took the documents destined to your office his pal Tanker >>>> Malley barred me in writing with an "English" only document. >>>> >>>> These are the hearings and the dockets in Federal Court that I >>>> suggested that you study closely. >>>> >>>> This is the docket in Federal Court >>>> >>>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj. >>>> >>>> These are digital recordings of the last three hearings >>>> >>>> Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/ >>>> >>>> January 11th, 2016 https://archive.org/details/ >>>> >>>> April 3rd, 2017 >>>> >>>> https://archive.org/details/ >>>> >>>> >>>> This is the docket in the Federal Court of Appeal >>>> >>>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj. >>>> >>>> >>>> The only hearing thus far >>>> >>>> May 24th, 2017 >>>> >>>> https://archive.org/details/ >>>> >>>> >>>> This Judge understnds the meaning of the word Integrity >>>> >>>> Date: 20151223 >>>> >>>> Docket: T-1557-15 >>>> >>>> Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 23, 2015 >>>> >>>> PRESENT: The Honourable Mr. Justice Bell >>>> >>>> BETWEEN: >>>> >>>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS >>>> >>>> Plaintiff >>>> >>>> and >>>> >>>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN >>>> >>>> Defendant >>>> >>>> ORDER >>>> >>>> (Delivered orally from the Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on >>>> December 14, 2015) >>>> >>>> The Plaintiff seeks an appeal de novo, by way of motion pursuant to >>>> the Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106), from an Order made on November >>>> 12, 2015, in which Prothonotary Morneau struck the Statement of Claim >>>> in its entirety. >>>> >>>> At the outset of the hearing, the Plaintiff brought to my attention a >>>> letter dated September 10, 2004, which he sent to me, in my then >>>> capacity as Past President of the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian >>>> Bar Association, and the then President of the Branch, Kathleen Quigg, >>>> (now a Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal). In that letter >>>> he stated: >>>> >>>> As for your past President, Mr. Bell, may I suggest that you check the >>>> work of Frank McKenna before I sue your entire law firm including you. >>>> You are your brother’s keeper. >>>> >>>> Frank McKenna is the former Premier of New Brunswick and a former >>>> colleague of mine at the law firm of McInnes Cooper. In addition to >>>> expressing an intention to sue me, the Plaintiff refers to a number of >>>> people in his Motion Record who he appears to contend may be witnesses >>>> or potential parties to be added. Those individuals who are known to >>>> me personally, include, but are not limited to the former Prime >>>> Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper; former >>>> Attorney General of Canada and now a Justice of the Manitoba Court of >>>> Queen’s Bench, Vic Toews; former member of Parliament Rob Moore; >>>> former Director of Policing Services, the late Grant Garneau; former >>>> Chief of the Fredericton Police Force, Barry McKnight; former Staff >>>> Sergeant Danny Copp; my former colleagues on the New Brunswick Court >>>> of Appeal, Justices Bradley V. Green and Kathleen Quigg, and, retired >>>> Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of the Royal Canadian Mounted >>>> Police. >>>> >>>> In the circumstances, given the threat in 2004 to sue me in my >>>> personal capacity and my past and present relationship with many >>>> potential witnesses and/or potential parties to the litigation, I am >>>> of the view there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias should I >>>> hear this motion. See Justice de Grandpré’s dissenting judgment in >>>> Committee for Justice and Liberty et al v National Energy Board et al, >>>> [1978] 1 SCR 369 at p 394 for the applicable test regarding >>>> allegations of bias. In the circumstances, although neither party has >>>> requested I recuse myself, I consider it appropriate that I do so. >>>> >>>> >>>> AS A RESULT OF MY RECUSAL, THIS COURT ORDERS that the Administrator of >>>> the Court schedule another date for the hearing of the motion. There >>>> is no order as to costs. >>>> >>>> “B. Richard Bell” >>>> Judge >>>> >>>> >>>> Below after the CBC article about your concerns (I made one comment >>>> already) you will find the text of just two of many emails I had sent >>>> to your office over the years since I first visited it in 2006. >>>> >>>> I noticed that on July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the the Court >>>> Martial Appeal Court of Canada Perhaps you should scroll to the >>>> bottom of this email ASAP and read the entire Paragraph 83 of my >>>> lawsuit now before the Federal Court of Canada? >>>> >>>> "FYI This is the text of the lawsuit that should interest Trudeau the >>>> most >>>> >>>> >>>> ---------- Original message ---------- >>>> From: justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca >>>> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM >>>> Subject: Réponse automatique : RE My complaint against the CROWN in >>>> Federal Court Attn David Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to >>>> submit a motion for a publication ban on my complaint trust that you >>>> dudes are way past too late >>>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com >>>> >>>> Veuillez noter que j'ai changé de courriel. Vous pouvez me rejoindre à >>>> lalanthier@hotmail.com >>>> >>>> Pour rejoindre le bureau de M. Trudeau veuillez envoyer un courriel à >>>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca >>>> >>>> Please note that I changed email address, you can reach me at >>>> lalanthier@hotmail.com >>>> >>>> To reach the office of Mr. Trudeau please send an email to >>>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca >>>> >>>> Thank you, >>>> >>>> Merci , >>>> >>>> >>>> http://davidraymondamos3. >>>> >>>> >>>> 83. The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war >>>> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to >>>> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over >>>> five years after he began his bragging: >>>> >>>> January 13, 2015 >>>> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate >>>> >>>> December 8, 2014 >>>> Why Canada Stood Tall! >>>> >>>> Friday, October 3, 2014 >>>> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And >>>> Stupid Justin Trudeau >>>> >>>> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide >>>> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts. >>>> >>>> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien >>>> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign >>>> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to >>>> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were >>>> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were >>>> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth >>>> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for >>>> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute” >>>> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind. >>>> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not >>>> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a >>>> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to >>>> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was >>>> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But >>>> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s >>>> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s >>>> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic, >>>> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle >>>> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway >>>> campaign of 2006. >>>> >>>> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then >>>> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the >>>> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent, >>>> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament. >>>> >>>> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling >>>> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of >>>> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners >>>> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a >>>> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make. >>>> >>>> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have >>>> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war. >>>> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by >>>> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is >>>> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of >>>> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government >>>> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this >>>> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a >>>> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East. >>>> >>>> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror >>>> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state” >>>> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and control, >>>> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The >>>> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and >>>> >>>> P.S. Whereas this CBC article is about your opinion of the actions of >>>> the latest Minister Of Health trust that Mr Boudreau and the CBC have >>>> had my files for many years and the last thing they are is ethical. >>>> Ask his friends Mr Murphy and the RCMP if you don't believe me. >>>> >>>> Subject: >>>> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400 >>>> From: "Murphy, Michael B. \(DH/MS\)" MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca >>>> To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com >>>> >>>> January 30, 2007 >>>> >>>> WITHOUT PREJUDICE >>>> >>>> Mr. David Amos >>>> >>>> Dear Mr. Amos: >>>> >>>> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29, >>>> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP. >>>> >>>> Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have >>>> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve >>>> Graham of the RCMP “J” Division in Fredericton. >>>> >>>> Sincerely, >>>> >>>> Honourable Michael B. Murphy >>>> Minister of Health >>>> >>>> CM/cb >>>> >>>> >>>> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote: >>>> >>>> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500 >>>> From: "Warren McBeath" warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca >>>> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca, >>>> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net, >>>> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com >>>> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,John. >>>> Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON" bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, >>>> "Paul Dube" PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca >>>> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has >>>> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not >>>> >>>> Dear Mr. Amos, >>>> >>>> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off >>>> over the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I >>>> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns. >>>> >>>> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position >>>> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process >>>> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the >>>> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these >>>> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this >>>> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done. >>>> >>>> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false >>>> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear >>>> that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada >>>> the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment >>>> and policing in Petitcodiac, NB. >>>> >>>> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on >>>> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors. >>>> >>>> Sincerely, >>>> >>>> Warren McBeath, Cpl. >>>> GRC Caledonia RCMP >>>> Traffic Services NCO >>>> Ph: (506) 387-2222 >>>> Fax: (506) 387-4622 >>>> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C., >>>> Office of the Integrity Commissioner >>>> Edgecombe House, 736 King Street >>>> Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5H1 >>>> tel.: 506-457-7890 >>>> fax: 506-444-5224 >>>> e-mail:coi@gnb.ca >>>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> >>> http://davidraymondamos3. >>> >>> >>> Sunday, 19 November 2017 >>> Federal Court of Appeal Finally Makes The BIG Decision And Publishes >>> It Now The Crooks Cannot Take Back Ticket To Try Put My Matter Before >>> The Supreme Court >>> >>> https://decisions.fct-cf.gc. >>> >>> >>> Federal Court of Appeal Decisions >>> >>> Amos v. Canada >>> Court (s) Database >>> >>> Federal Court of Appeal Decisions >>> Date >>> >>> 2017-10-30 >>> Neutral citation >>> >>> 2017 FCA 213 >>> File numbers >>> >>> A-48-16 >>> Date: 20171030 >>> >>> Docket: A-48-16 >>> Citation: 2017 FCA 213 >>> CORAM: >>> >>> WEBB J.A. >>> NEAR J.A. >>> GLEASON J.A. >>> >>> >>> BETWEEN: >>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS >>> Respondent on the cross-appeal >>> (and formally Appellant) >>> and >>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN >>> Appellant on the cross-appeal >>> (and formerly Respondent) >>> Heard at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on May 24, 2017. >>> Judgment delivered at Ottawa, Ontario, on October 30, 2017. >>> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY: >>> >>> THE COURT >>> >>> >>> >>> Date: 20171030 >>> >>> Docket: A-48-16 >>> Citation: 2017 FCA 213 >>> CORAM: >>> >>> WEBB J.A. >>> NEAR J.A. >>> GLEASON J.A. >>> >>> >>> BETWEEN: >>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS >>> Respondent on the cross-appeal >>> (and formally Appellant) >>> and >>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN >>> Appellant on the cross-appeal >>> (and formerly Respondent) >>> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY THE COURT >>> >>> I. Introduction >>> >>> [1] On September 16, 2015, David Raymond Amos (Mr. Amos) >>> filed a 53-page Statement of Claim (the Claim) in Federal Court >>> against Her Majesty the Queen (the Crown). Mr. Amos claims $11 million >>> in damages and a public apology from the Prime Minister and Provincial >>> Premiers for being illegally barred from accessing parliamentary >>> properties and seeks a declaration from the Minister of Public Safety >>> that the Canadian Government will no longer allow the Royal Canadian >>> Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Forces to harass him and his clan >>> (Claim at para. 96). >>> >>> [2] On November 12, 2015 (Docket T-1557-15), by way of a >>> motion brought by the Crown, a prothonotary of the Federal Court (the >>> Prothonotary) struck the Claim in its entirety, without leave to >>> amend, on the basis that it was plain and obvious that the Claim >>> disclosed no reasonable claim, the Claim was fundamentally vexatious, >>> and the Claim could not be salvaged by way of further amendment (the >>> Prothontary’s Order). >>> >>> >>> [3] On January 25, 2016 (2016 FC 93), by way of Mr. >>> Amos’ appeal from the Prothonotary’s Order, a judge of the Federal >>> Court (the Judge), reviewing the matter de novo, struck all of Mr. >>> Amos’ claims for relief with the exception of the claim for damages >>> for being barred by the RCMP from the New Brunswick legislature in >>> 2004 (the Federal Court Judgment). >>> >>> >>> [4] Mr. Amos appealed and the Crown cross-appealed the >>> Federal Court Judgment. Further to the issuance of a Notice of Status >>> Review, Mr. Amos’ appeal was dismissed for delay on December 19, 2016. >>> As such, the only matter before this Court is the Crown’s >>> cross-appeal. >>> >>> >>> II. Preliminary Matter >>> >>> [5] Mr. Amos, in his memorandum of fact and law in >>> relation to the cross-appeal that was filed with this Court on March >>> 6, 2017, indicated that several judges of this Court, including two of >>> the judges of this panel, had a conflict of interest in this appeal. >>> This was the first time that he identified the judges whom he believed >>> had a conflict of interest in a document that was filed with this >>> Court. In his notice of appeal he had alluded to a conflict with >>> several judges but did not name those judges. >>> >>> [6] Mr. Amos was of the view that he did not have to >>> identify the judges in any document filed with this Court because he >>> had identified the judges in various documents that had been filed >>> with the Federal Court. In his view the Federal Court and the Federal >>> Court of Appeal are the same court and therefore any document filed in >>> the Federal Court would be filed in this Court. This view is based on >>> subsections 5(4) and 5.1(4) of the Federal Courts Act, R.S.C., 1985, >>> c. F-7: >>> >>> >>> 5(4) Every judge of the Federal Court is, by virtue of his or her >>> office, a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal and has all the >>> jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court of >>> Appeal. >>> […] >>> >>> 5(4) Les juges de la Cour fédérale sont d’office juges de la Cour >>> d’appel fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que >>> les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale. >>> […] >>> 5.1(4) Every judge of the Federal Court of Appeal is, by virtue of >>> that office, a judge of the Federal Court and has all the >>> jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court. >>> >>> 5.1(4) Les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale sont d’office juges de la >>> Cour fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que les >>> juges de la Cour fédérale. >>> >>> >>> [7] However, these subsections only provide that the >>> judges of the Federal Court are also judges of this Court (and vice >>> versa). It does not mean that there is only one court. If the Federal >>> Court and this Court were one Court, there would be no need for this >>> section. >>> [8] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act provide >>> that: >>> 3 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court >>> — Appeal Division is continued under the name “Federal Court of >>> Appeal” in English and “Cour d’appel fédérale” in French. It is >>> continued as an additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and >>> for Canada, for the better administration of the laws of Canada and as >>> a superior court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction. >>> >>> 3 La Section d’appel, aussi appelée la Cour d’appel ou la Cour d’appel >>> fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée « Cour d’appel fédérale » en >>> français et « Federal Court of Appeal » en anglais. Elle est maintenue >>> à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et d’amirauté du >>> Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit canadien, et >>> continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant compétence en >>> matière civile et pénale. >>> 4 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court >>> — Trial Division is continued under the name “Federal Court” in >>> English and “Cour fédérale” in French. It is continued as an >>> additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and for Canada, for >>> the better administration of the laws of Canada and as a superior >>> court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction. >>> >>> 4 La section de la Cour fédérale du Canada, appelée la Section de >>> première instance de la Cour fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée « >>> Cour fédérale » en français et « Federal Court » en anglais. Elle est >>> maintenue à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et >>> d’amirauté du Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit >>> canadien, et continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant >>> compétence en matière civile et pénale. >>> >>> >>> [9] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act create >>> two separate courts – this Court (section 3) and the Federal Court >>> (section 4). If, as Mr. Amos suggests, documents filed in the Federal >>> Court were automatically also filed in this Court, then there would no >>> need for the parties to prepare and file appeal books as required by >>> Rules 343 to 345 of the Federal Courts Rules, SOR/98-106 in relation >>> to any appeal from a decision of the Federal Court. The requirement to >>> file an appeal book with this Court in relation to an appeal from a >>> decision of the Federal Court makes it clear that the only documents >>> that will be before this Court are the documents that are part of that >>> appeal book. >>> >>> >>> [10] Therefore, the memorandum of fact and law filed on >>> March 6, 2017 is the first document, filed with this Court, in which >>> Mr. Amos identified the particular judges that he submits have a >>> conflict in any matter related to him. >>> >>> >>> [11] On April 3, 2017, Mr. Amos attempted to bring a motion >>> before the Federal Court seeking an order “affirming or denying the >>> conflict of interest he has” with a number of judges of the Federal >>> Court. A judge of the Federal Court issued a direction noting that if >>> Mr. Amos was seeking this order in relation to judges of the Federal >>> Court of Appeal, it was beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal Court. >>> Mr. Amos raised the Federal Court motion at the hearing of this >>> cross-appeal. The Federal Court motion is not a motion before this >>> Court and, as such, the submissions filed before the Federal Court >>> will not be entertained. As well, since this was a motion brought >>> before the Federal Court (and not this Court), any documents filed in >>> relation to that motion are not part of the record of this Court. >>> >>> >>> [12] During the hearing of the appeal Mr. Amos alleged that >>> the third member of this panel also had a conflict of interest and >>> submitted some documents that, in his view, supported his claim of a >>> conflict. Mr. Amos, following the hearing of his appeal, was also >>> afforded the opportunity to provide a brief summary of the conflict >>> that he was alleging and to file additional documents that, in his >>> view, supported his allegations. Mr. Amos submitted several pages of >>> documents in relation to the alleged conflicts. He organized the >>> documents by submitting a copy of the biography of the particular >>> judge and then, immediately following that biography, by including >>> copies of the documents that, in his view, supported his claim that >>> such judge had a conflict. >>> >>> >>> [13] The nature of the alleged conflict of Justice Webb is >>> that before he was appointed as a Judge of the Tax Court of Canada in >>> 2006, he was a partner with the law firm Patterson Law, and before >>> that with Patterson Palmer in Nova Scotia. Mr. Amos submitted that he >>> had a number of disputes with Patterson Palmer and Patterson Law and >>> therefore Justice Webb has a conflict simply because he was a partner >>> of these firms. Mr. Amos is not alleging that Justice Webb was >>> personally involved in or had any knowledge of any matter in which Mr. >>> Amos was involved with Justice Webb’s former law firm – only that he >>> was a member of such firm. >>> >>> >>> [14] During his oral submissions at the hearing of his >>> appeal Mr. Amos, in relation to the alleged conflict for Justice Webb, >>> focused on dealings between himself and a particular lawyer at >>> Patterson Law. However, none of the documents submitted by Mr. Amos at >>> the hearing or subsequently related to any dealings with this >>> particular lawyer nor is it clear when Mr. Amos was dealing with this >>> lawyer. In particular, it is far from clear whether such dealings were >>> after the time that Justice Webb was appointed as a Judge of the Tax >>> Court of Canada over 10 years ago. >>> >>> >>> [15] The documents that he submitted in relation to the >>> alleged conflict for Justice Webb largely relate to dealings between >>> Byron Prior and the St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador office of >>> Patterson Palmer, which is not in the same province where Justice Webb >>> practiced law. The only document that indicates any dealing between >>> Mr. Amos and Patterson Palmer is a copy of an affidavit of Stephen May >>> who was a partner in the St. John’s NL office of Patterson Palmer. The >>> affidavit is dated January 24, 2005 and refers to a number of e-mails >>> that were sent by Mr. Amos to Stephen May. Mr. Amos also included a >>> letter that is addressed to four individuals, one of whom is John >>> Crosbie who was counsel to the St. John’s NL office of Patterson >>> Palmer. The letter is dated September 2, 2004 and is addressed to >>> “John Crosbie, c/o Greg G. Byrne, Suite 502, 570 Queen Street, >>> Fredericton, NB E3B 5E3”. In this letter Mr. Amos alludes to a >>> possible lawsuit against Patterson Palmer. >>> [16] Mr. Amos’ position is that simply because Justice Webb >>> was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer, he now has a conflict. In Wewaykum >>> Indian Band v. Her Majesty the Queen, 2003 SCC 45, [2003] 2 S.C.R. >>> 259, the Supreme Court of Canada noted that disqualification of a >>> judge is to be determined based on whether there is a reasonable >>> apprehension of bias: >>> 60 In Canadian law, one standard has now emerged as the >>> criterion for disqualification. The criterion, as expressed by de >>> Grandpré J. in Committee for Justice and Liberty v. National Energy >>> Board, …[[1978] 1 S.C.R. 369, 68 D.L.R. (3d) 716], at p. 394, is the >>> reasonable apprehension of bias: >>> … the apprehension of bias must be a reasonable one, held by >>> reasonable and right minded persons, applying themselves to the >>> question and obtaining thereon the required information. In the words >>> of the Court of Appeal, that test is "what would an informed person, >>> viewing the matter realistically and practically -- and having thought >>> the matter through -- conclude. Would he think that it is more likely >>> than not that [the decision-maker], whether consciously or >>> unconsciously, would not decide fairly." >>> >>> [17] The issue to be determined is whether an informed >>> person, viewing the matter realistically and practically, and having >>> thought the matter through, would conclude that Mr. Amos’ allegations >>> give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias. As this Court has >>> previously remarked, “there is a strong presumption that judges will >>> administer justice impartially” and this presumption will not be >>> rebutted in the absence of “convincing evidence” of bias (Collins v. >>> Canada, 2011 FCA 140 at para. 7, [2011] 4 C.T.C. 157 [Collins]. See >>> also R. v. S. (R.D.), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 484 at para. 32, 151 D.L.R. >>> (4th) 193). >>> >>> [18] The Ontario Court of Appeal in Rando Drugs Ltd. v. >>> Scott, 2007 ONCA 553, 86 O.R. (3d) 653 (leave to appeal to the Supreme >>> Court of Canada refused, 32285 (August 1, 2007)), addressed the >>> particular issue of whether a judge is disqualified from hearing a >>> case simply because he had been a member of a law firm that was >>> involved in the litigation that was now before that judge. The Ontario >>> Court of Appeal determined that the judge was not disqualified if the >>> judge had no involvement with the person or the matter when he was a >>> lawyer. The Ontario Court of Appeal also explained that the rules for >>> determining whether a judge is disqualified are different from the >>> rules to determine whether a lawyer has a conflict: >>> 27 Thus, disqualification is not the natural corollary to a >>> finding that a trial judge has had some involvement in a case over >>> which he or she is now presiding. Where the judge had no involvement, >>> as here, it cannot be said that the judge is disqualified. >>> >>> >>> 28 The point can rightly be made that had Mr. Patterson been >>> asked to represent the appellant as counsel before his appointment to >>> the bench, the conflict rules would likely have prevented him from >>> taking the case because his firm had formerly represented one of the >>> defendants in the case. Thus, it is argued how is it that as a trial >>> judge Patterson J. can hear the case? This issue was considered by the >>> Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in Locabail (U.K.) Ltd. v. Bayfield >>> Properties Ltd., [2000] Q.B. 451. The court held, at para. 58, that >>> there is no inflexible rule governing the disqualification of a judge >>> and that, "[e]verything depends on the circumstances." >>> >>> >>> 29 It seems to me that what appears at first sight to be an >>> inconsistency in application of rules can be explained by the >>> different contexts and in particular, the strong presumption of >>> judicial impartiality that applies in the context of disqualification >>> of a judge. There is no such presumption in cases of allegations of >>> conflict of interest against a lawyer because of a firm's previous >>> involvement in the case. To the contrary, as explained by Sopinka J. >>> in MacDonald Estate v. Martin (1990), 77 D.L.R. (4th) 249 (S.C.C.), >>> for sound policy reasons there is a presumption of a disqualifying >>> interest that can rarely be overcome. In particular, a conclusory >>> statement from the lawyer that he or she had no confidential >>> information about the case will never be sufficient. The case is the >>> opposite where the allegation of bias is made against a trial judge. >>> His or her statement that he or she knew nothing about the case and >>> had no involvement in it will ordinarily be accepted at face value >>> unless there is good reason to doubt it: see Locabail, at para. 19. >>> >>> >>> 30 That brings me then to consider the particular circumstances >>> of this case and whether there are serious grounds to find a >>> disqualifying conflict of interest in this case. In my view, there are >>> two significant factors that justify the trial judge's decision not to >>> recuse himself. The first is his statement, which all parties accept, >>> that he knew nothing of the case when it was in his former firm and >>> that he had nothing to do with it. The second is the long passage of >>> time. As was said in Wewaykum, at para. 85: >>> To us, one significant factor stands out, and must inform >>> the perspective of the reasonable person assessing the impact of this >>> involvement on Binnie J.'s impartiality in the appeals. That factor is >>> the passage of time. Most arguments for disqualification rest on >>> circumstances that are either contemporaneous to the decision-making, >>> or that occurred within a short time prior to the decision-making. >>> 31 There are other factors that inform the issue. The Wilson >>> Walker firm no longer acted for any of the parties by the time of >>> trial. More importantly, at the time of the motion, Patterson J. had >>> been a judge for six years and thus had not had a relationship with >>> his former firm for a considerable period of time. >>> >>> >>> 32 In my view, a reasonable person, viewing the matter >>> realistically would conclude that the trial judge could deal fairly >>> and impartially with this case. I take this view principally because >>> of the long passage of time and the trial judge's lack of involvement >>> in or knowledge of the case when the Wilson Walker firm had carriage. >>> In these circumstances it cannot be reasonably contended that the >>> trial judge could not remain impartial in the case. The mere fact that >>> his name appears on the letterhead of some correspondence from over a >>> decade ago would not lead a reasonable person to believe that he would >>> either consciously or unconsciously favour his former firm's former >>> client. It is simply not realistic to think that a judge would throw >>> off his mantle of impartiality, ignore his oath of office and favour a >>> client - about whom he knew nothing - of a firm that he left six years >>> earlier and that no longer acts for the client, in a case involving >>> events from over a decade ago. >>> (emphasis added) >>> >>> [19] Justice Webb had no involvement with any matter >>> involving Mr. Amos while he was a member of Patterson Palmer or >>> Patterson Law, nor does Mr. Amos suggest that he did. Mr. Amos made it >>> clear during the hearing of this matter that the only reason for the >>> alleged conflict for Justice Webb was that he was a member of >>> Patterson Law and Patterson Palmer. This is simply not enough for >>> Justice Webb to be disqualified. Any involvement of Mr. Amos with >>> Patterson Law while Justice Webb was a member of that firm would have >>> had to occur over 10 years ago and even longer for the time when he >>> was a member of Patterson Palmer. In addition to the lack of any >>> involvement on his part with any matter or dispute that Mr. Amos had >>> with Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer (which in and of itself is >>> sufficient to dispose of this matter), the length of time since >>> Justice Webb was a member of Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer would >>> also result in the same finding – that there is no conflict in Justice >>> Webb hearing this appeal. >>> >>> [20] Similarly in R. v. Bagot, 2000 MBCA 30, 145 Man. R. >>> (2d) 260, the Manitoba Court of Appeal found that there was no >>> reasonable apprehension of bias when a judge, who had been a member of >>> the law firm that had been retained by the accused, had no involvement >>> with the accused while he was a lawyer with that firm. >>> >>> [21] In Del Zotto v. Minister of National Revenue, [2000] 4 >>> F.C. 321, 257 N.R. 96, this court did find that there would be a >>> reasonable apprehension of bias where a judge, who while he was a >>> lawyer, had recorded time on a matter involving the same person who >>> was before that judge. However, this case can be distinguished as >>> Justice Webb did not have any time recorded on any files involving Mr. >>> Amos while he was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer or Patterson Law. >>> >>> [22] Mr. Amos also included with his submissions a CD. He >>> stated in his affidavit dated June 26, 2017 that there is a “true copy >>> of an American police surveillance wiretap entitled 139” on this CD. >>> He has also indicated that he has “provided a true copy of the CD >>> entitled 139 to many American and Canadian law enforcement authorities >>> and not one of the police forces or officers of the court are willing >>> to investigate it”. Since he has indicated that this is an “American >>> police surveillance wiretap”, this is a matter for the American law >>> enforcement authorities and cannot create, as Mr. Amos suggests, a >>> conflict of interest for any judge to whom he provides a copy. >>> >>> [23] As a result, there is no conflict or reasonable >>> apprehension of bias for Justice Webb and therefore, no reason for him >>> to recuse himself. >>> >>> [24] Mr. Amos alleged that Justice Near’s past professional >>> experience with the government created a “quasi-conflict” in deciding >>> the cross-appeal. Mr. Amos provided no details and Justice Near >>> confirmed that he had no prior knowledge of the matters alleged in the >>> Claim. Justice Near sees no reason to recuse himself. >>> >>> [25] Insofar as it is possible to glean the basis for Mr. >>> Amos’ allegations against Justice Gleason, it appears that he alleges >>> that she is incapable of hearing this appeal because he says he wrote >>> a letter to Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien in 2004. At that time, >>> both Justice Gleason and Mr. Mulroney were partners in the law firm >>> Ogilvy Renault, LLP. The letter in question, which is rude and angry, >>> begins with “Hey you two Evil Old Smiling Bastards” and “Re: me suing >>> you and your little dogs too”. There is no indication that the letter >>> was ever responded to or that a law suit was ever commenced by Mr. >>> Amos against Mr. Mulroney. In the circumstances, there is no reason >>> for Justice Gleason to recuse herself as the letter in question does >>> not give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias. >>> >>> >>> III. Issue >>> >>> [26] The issue on the cross-appeal is as follows: Did the >>> Judge err in setting aside the Prothonotary’s Order striking the Claim >>> in its entirety without leave to amend and in determining that Mr. >>> Amos’ allegation that the RCMP barred him from the New Brunswick >>> legislature in 2004 was capable of supporting a cause of action? >>> >>> IV. Analysis >>> >>> A. Standard of Review >>> >>> [27] Following the Judge’s decision to set aside the >>> Prothonotary’s Order, this Court revisited the standard of review to >>> be applied to discretionary decisions of prothonotaries and decisions >>> made by judges on appeals of prothonotaries’ decisions in Hospira >>> Healthcare Corp. v. Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, 2016 FCA 215, >>> 402 D.L.R. (4th) 497 [Hospira]. In Hospira, a five-member panel of >>> this Court replaced the Aqua-Gem standard of review with that >>> articulated in Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 235 >>> [Housen]. As a result, it is no longer appropriate for the Federal >>> Court to conduct a de novo review of a discretionary order made by a >>> prothonotary in regard to questions vital to the final issue of the >>> case. Rather, a Federal Court judge can only intervene on appeal if >>> the prothonotary made an error of law or a palpable and overriding >>> error in determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and >>> law (Hospira at para. 79). Further, this Court can only interfere with >>> a Federal Court judge’s review of a prothonotary’s discretionary order >>> if the judge made an error of law or palpable and overriding error in >>> determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and law >>> (Hospira at paras. 82-83). >>> >>> [28] In the case at bar, the Judge substituted his own >>> assessment of Mr. Amos’ Claim for that of the Prothonotary. This Court >>> must look to the Prothonotary’s Order to determine whether the Judge >>> erred in law or made a palpable and overriding error in choosing to >>> interfere. >>> >>> >>> B. Did the Judge err in interfering with the >>> Prothonotary’s Order? >>> >>> [29] The Prothontoary’s Order accepted the following >>> paragraphs from the Crown’s submissions as the basis for striking the >>> Claim in its entirety without leave to amend: >>> >>> 17. Within the 96 paragraph Statement of Claim, the Plaintiff >>> addresses his complaint in paragraphs 14-24, inclusive. All but four >>> of those paragraphs are dedicated to an incident that occurred in 2006 >>> in and around the legislature in New Brunswick. The jurisdiction of >>> the Federal Court does not extend to Her Majesty the Queen in right of >>> the Provinces. In any event, the Plaintiff hasn’t named the Province >>> or provincial actors as parties to this action. The incident alleged >>> does not give rise to a justiciable cause of action in this Court. >>> (…) >>> >>> >>> 21. The few paragraphs that directly address the Defendant >>> provide no details as to the individuals involved or the location of >>> the alleged incidents or other details sufficient to allow the >>> Defendant to respond. As a result, it is difficult or impossible to >>> determine the causes of action the Plaintiff is attempting to advance. >>> A generous reading of the Statement of Claim allows the Defendant to >>> only speculate as to the true and/or intended cause of action. At >>> best, the Plaintiff’s action may possibly be summarized as: he >>> suspects he is barred from the House of Commons. >>> [footnotes omitted]. >>> >>> >>> [30] The Judge determined that he could not strike the Claim >>> on the same jurisdictional basis as the Prothonotary. The Judge noted >>> that the Federal Court has jurisdiction over claims based on the >>> liability of Federal Crown servants like the RCMP and that the actors >>> who barred Mr. Amos from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 >>> included the RCMP (Federal Court Judgment at para. 23). In considering >>> the viability of these allegations de novo, the Judge identified >>> paragraph 14 of the Claim as containing “some precision” as it >>> identifies the date of the event and a RCMP officer acting as >>> Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor (Federal Court Judgment at >>> para. 27). >>> >>> >>> [31] The Judge noted that the 2004 event could support a >>> cause of action in the tort of misfeasance in public office and >>> identified the elements of the tort as excerpted from Meigs v. Canada, >>> 2013 FC 389, 431 F.T.R. 111: >>> >>> >>> [13] As in both the cases of Odhavji Estate v Woodhouse, 2003 SCC >>> 69 [Odhavji] and Lewis v Canada, 2012 FC 1514 [Lewis], I must >>> determine whether the plaintiffs’ statement of claim pleads each >>> element of the alleged tort of misfeasance in public office: >>> >>> a) The public officer must have engaged in deliberate and unlawful >>> conduct in his or her capacity as public officer; >>> >>> b) The public officer must have been aware both that his or her >>> conduct was unlawful and that it was likely to harm the plaintiff; and >>> >>> c) There must be an element of bad faith or dishonesty by the public >>> officer and knowledge of harm alone is insufficient to conclude that a >>> public officer acted in bad faith or dishonestly. >>> Odhavji, above, at paras 23, 24 and 28 >>> (Federal Court Judgment at para. 28). >>> >>> [32] The Judge determined that Mr. Amos disclosed sufficient >>> material facts to meet the elements of the tort of misfeasance in >>> public office because the actors, who barred him from the New >>> Brunswick legislature in 2004, including the RCMP, did so for >>> “political reasons” (Federal Court Judgment at para. 29). >>> >>> [33] This Court’s discussion of the sufficiency of pleadings >>> in Merchant Law Group v. Canada (Revenue Agency), 2010 FCA 184, 321 >>> D.L.R (4th) 301 is particularly apt: >>> >>> …When pleading bad faith or abuse of power, it is not enough to >>> assert, baldly, conclusory phrases such as “deliberately or >>> negligently,” “callous disregard,” or “by fraud and theft did steal”. >>> “The bare assertion of a conclusion upon which the court is called >>> upon to pronounce is not an allegation of material fact”. Making bald, >>> conclusory allegations without any evidentiary foundation is an abuse >>> of process… >>> >>> To this, I would add that the tort of misfeasance in public office >>> requires a particular state of mind of a public officer in carrying >>> out the impunged action, i.e., deliberate conduct which the public >>> officer knows to be inconsistent with the obligations of his or her >>> office. For this tort, particularization of the allegations is >>> mandatory. Rule 181 specifically requires particularization of >>> allegations of “breach of trust,” “wilful default,” “state of mind of >>> a person,” “malice” or “fraudulent intention.” >>> (at paras. 34-35, citations omitted). >>> >>> [34] Applying the Housen standard of review to the >>> Prothonotary’s Order, we are of the view that the Judge interfered >>> absent a legal or palpable and overriding error. >>> >>> [35] The Prothonotary determined that Mr. Amos’ Claim >>> disclosed no reasonable claim and was fundamentally vexatious on the >>> basis of jurisdictional concerns and the absence of material facts to >>> ground a cause of action. Paragraph 14 of the Claim, which addresses >>> the 2004 event, pleads no material facts as to how the RCMP officer >>> engaged in deliberate and unlawful conduct, knew that his or her >>> conduct was unlawful and likely to harm Mr. Amos, and acted in bad >>> faith. While the Claim alleges elsewhere that Mr. Amos was barred from >>> the New Brunswick legislature for political and/or malicious reasons, >>> these allegations are not particularized and are directed against >>> non-federal actors, such as the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Legislative >>> Assembly of New Brunswick and the Fredericton Police Force. As such, >>> the Judge erred in determining that Mr. Amos’ allegation that the RCMP >>> barred him from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 was capable of >>> supporting a cause of action. >>> >>> [36] In our view, the Claim is made up entirely of bare >>> allegations, devoid of any detail, such that it discloses no >>> reasonable cause of action within the jurisdiction of the Federal >>> Courts. Therefore, the Judge erred in interfering to set aside the >>> Prothonotary’s Order striking the claim in its entirety. Further, we >>> find that the Prothonotary made no error in denying leave to amend. >>> The deficiencies in Mr. Amos’ pleadings are so extensive such that >>> amendment could not cure them (see Collins at para. 26). >>> >>> V. Conclusion >>> [37] For the foregoing reasons, we would allow the Crown’s >>> cross-appeal, with costs, setting aside the Federal Court Judgment, >>> dated January 25, 2016 and restoring the Prothonotary’s Order, dated >>> November 12, 2015, which struck Mr. Amos’ Claim in its entirety >>> without leave to amend. >>> "Wyman W. Webb" >>> J.A. >>> "David G. Near" >>> J.A. >>> "Mary J.L. Gleason" >>> J.A. >>> >>> >>> >>> FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL >>> NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD >>> >>> A CROSS-APPEAL FROM AN ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE SOUTHCOTT DATED >>> JANUARY 25, 2016; DOCKET NUMBER T-1557-15. >>> DOCKET: >>> >>> A-48-16 >>> >>> >>> >>> STYLE OF CAUSE: >>> >>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN >>> >>> >>> >>> PLACE OF HEARING: >>> >>> Fredericton, >>> New Brunswick >>> >>> DATE OF HEARING: >>> >>> May 24, 2017 >>> >>> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY: >>> >>> WEBB J.A. >>> NEAR J.A. >>> GLEASON J.A. >>> >>> DATED: >>> >>> October 30, 2017 >>> >>> APPEARANCES: >>> David Raymond Amos >>> >>> >>> For The Appellant / respondent on cross-appeal >>> (on his own behalf) >>> >>> Jan Jensen >>> >>> >>> For The Respondent / appELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL >>> >>> SOLICITORS OF RECORD: >>> Nathalie G. Drouin >>> Deputy Attorney General of Canada >>> >>> For The Respondent / APPELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL >>> >>> > SIDNEY POWELL Sidney Powell, P.C. 2911 Turtle Creek Blvd., Suite 300 Dallas, Texas 75219 (517) 763-7499 sidney@federalappeals.com HOWARD KLEINHENDLER Counsel of Record Howard Kleinhendler Esquire 369 Lexington Avenue, 12th Floor New York, New York 10017 (917) 793-1188 howard@kleinhendler.com L. LIN WOOD L. LIN WOOD, P.C. P.O. 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Washington Street Suite 1250 Chicago, IL 60606 ph: 312.782.1680 f: 312.782.1887 “Personal prejudice and financial greed are the two great evils that threaten courts of law, and once they get the upper hand they immediately hamstring society, by destroying all justice.” ― Thomas More, Utopia.” Michael McHale, Counsel Michael McHale received a B.A. in Journalism and History from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with high distinction in 2009, and a J.D. from the University of Nebraska College of Law with distinction in 2012. Prior to joining TMS, Michael served as general counsel and policy analyst for the Nebraska Catholic Conference, where he testified before several committees of the Nebraska Legislature defending the constitutionality of school vouchers, tax-credit scholarships, and Nebraska’s parental consent statute for abortion-seeking minors. From 2018 to 2019, he clerked for the Honorable L. Steven Grasz on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Michael is a Blackstone Legal Fellow with Alliance Defending Freedom. His writings on the rights to life and religious freedom have appeared in the Witherspoon Institute’s online journal, Public Discourse, along with the Omaha World-Herald and the Lincoln Journal Star. He has also completed pre-theology studies as a seminarian at St. Gregory the Great Seminary, where he studied philosophy and natural law. Biography of Michael McHale, Counsel Biography of Christopher Ferrara, Special Counsel Christopher Ferrara is a Roman Catholic attorney, pro-life activist, and journalist. He founded the American Catholic Lawyers Association in 1990. He joined the Thomas More Society in 2020, and concentrates his legal work on pro-life defense, religious liberty cases, unjust laws that attack Catholic institutions, and that infringe on parental rights. Mr. Ferrara graduated from Fordham Law in 1977 and practices out of a satellite office in the New York metropolitan area. Mr. Ferrara is a widely published author on Catholic Church affairs. Mr. Ferrara is married and has six children. CHRISTOPHER A. FERRARA, ESQ. (Bar No. 51198) 148-29 Cross Island Parkway Whitestone, Queens, New York 11357 Telephone: (718) 357-1040 973 703 0907 cferrara@thomasmoresociety.org Special Counsel to the Thomas More Society https://minnlawyer.com/2020/ Bill Gaier President and Publisher 612-584-1537 Republicans sue to stop Wisconsin vote certification By: The Associated Press November 25, 2020 MADISON, Wis. — Republicans filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to block certification of the presidential election results even as a recount over President-elect Joe Biden’s win over President Donald Trump is ongoing. The lawsuit echoes many of the same arguments Trump is making in trying, unsuccessfully, to have tens of thousands of ballots discounted during the recount. It also seeks to give the power to name presidential electors to the Republican-controlled Legislature. Wisconsin state law allows the political parties to pick electors, which was done in October. Once the election results are certified, which is scheduled to be done Dec. 1, those pre-determined electors will cast their ballots for the winner on Dec. 14. “The litigation filed this afternoon seeks to disenfranchise every Wisconsinite who voted in this year’s presidential election,” said Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul. “The Wisconsin Department of Justice will ensure that Wisconsin’s presidential electors are selected based on the will of the more than 3 million Wisconsin voters who cast a ballot.” The lawsuit also rehashes a claim that a federal court rejected in September that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to “illegally circumvent Wisconsin absentee voting laws” through grants awarded by a nonprofit center he funds. At least 10 cases have been filed across the country seeking to halt certification in parts or all of key battleground states, including lawsuits brought by the Trump campaign in Michigan and Pennsylvania. So far none have been successful. The Wisconsin lawsuit was filed by attorney Erick Kaardal, a former Minnesota Republican Party official who also represented rapper Kanye West in his unsuccessful lawsuit attempting to get on the ballot in Wisconsin. Kaardal represents a conservative group called the Wisconsin Voters Alliance and a host of Republican voters. Kaardal also filed an unsuccessful federal lawsuit in Wisconsin that attempted to block $6.3 million from being awarded to five heavily Democratic cities from the nonprofit Center for Technology and Civic Life, which is primarily funded by Zuckerberg and his wife. A judge tossed the lawsuit that argued the money amounted to bribery to bolster Democratic turnout in Green Bay, Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee and Racine. Many of the same arguments alleging the money was illegally awarded and therefore the election results should be nullified are being made in the new lawsuit in state court. Other claims mirror those by Trump’s campaign. Those claims allege absentee ballots should not have been counted where election officials filled in missing information on the certification envelope that contains the ballot and that voters who identified as “indefinitely confined” were lying to avoid the state’s photo ID law. The Wisconsin Elections Commission advises clerks that they can fill in missing information on the ballot envelopes, such as the address of a witness. That’s been the practice for years, and it’s never been challenged. Biden won Wisconsin by 20,608 votes, but the lawsuit claims that more than 156,000 ballots should be tossed out. info@thomasmoresociety.org Federal Court Says New York Governor Cuomo is Wrong to Limit Worship Services Governor Cuomo and Mayor DeBlasio (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is wrong to limit worship services yet condone mass protests, according to a federal judge. After telling Thomas More Society attorneys in a June 18, 2020 hearing that he was “troubled by” the government’s responses, Senior U.S. District Judge Gary L. Sharpe issued a preliminary injunction on June 26, 2020, prohibiting Governor Cuomo, his Attorney General Letitia James, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio from ordering or enforcing COVID-19 prompted restrictions on outdoor religious worship gatherings. Christopher Ferrara “This decision is an important step toward inhibiting the suddenly emerging trend of exercising absolute monarchy on pretext of public health. What this kind of regime really meant in practice is freedom for me, but not for thee,” said Thomas More Society Special Counsel Christopher Ferrara. Thomas More Society Special Counsel Christopher Ferrara remarked, “We are pleased that Judge Sharpe was able to see through the sham of Governor Cuomo’s ‘Social Distancing Protocol’ which went right out the window as soon as he and Mayor de Blasio saw a mass protest movement they favored taking to the streets by the thousands. Suddenly, the limit on ‘mass gatherings’ was no longer necessary to ‘save lives.’ Yet they were continuing to ban high school graduations and other outdoor gatherings exceeding a mere 25 people. This decision is an important step toward inhibiting the suddenly emerging trend of exercising absolute monarchy on pretext of public health. What this kind of regime really meant in practice is freedom for me, but not for thee.” Sharpe’s order noted that, “it is not the judiciary’s role to second guess the likes of Governor Cuomo or Mayor de Blasio when it comes to decisions they make in such troubling times, that is, until those decisions result in the curtailment of fundamental rights without compelling justification.” In awarding the injunction, the court noted that “nonessential businesses” that enjoy a 50% capacity limitation are not justifiably different than houses of worship. Sharpe remarked that offices, retails stores, salons, and restaurants – all now permitted to open at 50% capacity indoors – all involve the congregation of people for a length of time. He stated, “These secular businesses/activities threaten defendants’ interest in slowing the spread of COVID-19 to a similar or greater degree than those of plaintiffs’, and demonstrate that the 25% indoor capacity limitation on houses of worship is underinclusive and triggers strict scrutiny review.” The judge pointed out, “Another case of individualized exemption seems even more obvious.” Governor Cuomo has now specifically authorized outdoor, in-person graduation ceremonies of no more than 150 people. This is an express exemption from the ten- or twenty-five-person outdoor limits that apply to other situations. Yet, “There is nothing materially different about a graduation ceremony and a religious gathering such that defendants’ justifications for a difference in treatment can be found compelling.” Sharpe took New York City to task, stating that de Blasio’s simultaneous pro-protest/anti-religious gathering messages “clearly undermine the legitimacy” of his argument that selective enforcement of the challenged laws with respect to mass race protests is a matter of public safety. “Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio could have just as easily discouraged protests, short of condemning their message, in the name of public health and exercised discretion to suspend enforcement for public safety reasons instead of encouraging what they knew was a flagrant disregard of the outdoor limits and social distancing rules,” wrote Sharpe. “They could have also been silent. But by acting as they did, Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio sent a clear message that mass protests are deserving of preferential treatment.” As a result of the federal order, Governor Cuomo, Attorney General James, and Mayor de Blasio are “enjoined and restrained from enforcing any indoor gathering limitations” against the involved houses of worship “greater than imposed for Phase 2 industries,” provided that participants follow the prescribed social distancing. They are also forbidden from “enforcing any limitation for outdoor gatherings provided that participants in such gatherings follow social distancing requirements as set forth in the applicable executive orders and guidance.” Cuomo, James, and de Blasio were sued by two Catholic priests from upstate New York and a trio of Orthodox Jewish congregants from Brooklyn for violations of their civil rights by prejudicial orders and selective enforcement. The federal lawsuit, filed June 10, 2020, in United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, charged the governor, attorney general, and mayor with violating the plaintiffs’ rights to free exercise of religion, freedom of speech, assembly and expressive association, and due process, under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Governor Cuomo was also accused of violating New York state law and the New York State Constitution. Ferrara explained the lawsuit: “In an unprecedented abuse of power, Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio have exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to create, over the past three months, a veritable dictatorship by means of a complex web of executive orders. The orders have imposed and selectively enforced ‘social distancing’ under a ‘lockdown’ of virtually every aspect of life for New York state residents on the pretext of ‘public health,’ but with numerous exceptions. The permissible activities, not based on the science of viral contagion, but rather determined according to personal value judgments, have included mass demonstrations of thousands of people – gatherings of which the governor and mayor have approved and the mayor participated in. Cuomo and de Blasio, along with James, have enforced the gubernatorial ‘lockdown’ by threat of criminal prosecution and actual prosecution, including $1,000 fines for the recently created offense of violating Cuomo’s ‘Social Distancing Protocol’.” Ferrara added, “These mass protest gatherings, taking place during the COVID-19 stay-at-home lockdown orders, have been not only allowed but praised by both the governor of New York and mayor of New York City, even though massive property damage and death have resulted. This, when the government’s primary purpose is to protect the people it governs.” Read United States District Court for the Northern District of New York Judge Gary L. Sharpe’s Memorandum-Decision and Order, issued June 26, 2020, in response to the Thomas More Society’s complaint, filed on behalf of Rev. Steven Soos, Rev. Nicholas Stamos, Daniel Schonbrun, Elchanan Perr, and Mayer Mayerfeld, in Rev. Steven Soos, et al v. Andrew M. Cuomo, et al, here. https://minnlawyer.com/2020/ Minnesota churches join legal challenges to virus rules By: The Associated Press August 14, 2020 Churches in Minnesota and California, backed by a conservative legal group, filed lawsuits this week against the governors of their states challenging restrictions imposed due to the coronavirus outbreak that they contend are violations of religious liberty. They’re the latest in a long series of legal challenges, many of them in California, pitting clerics and houses of worship who believe they should be exempt from certain restrictions on public gatherings against governors who insist the measures are needed to rein in the pandemic. Most of the suits have been rebuffed; some have succeeded. In Minnesota, a lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court challenging Gov. Tim Walz’s executive orders requiring 6-foot social distancing and the wearing of face masks at worship services. “Gov. Walz, a former teacher, gets an F in religious liberties,” said Erick Kaardal, special counsel for the Thomas More Society. “Other states, including Texas, Illinois and Ohio, have excluded churches from COVID-19 mask mandates.” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison reiterated his defense of Walz’s order, saying it was legally and constitutionally sound. Teddy Tschann, spokesperson for Walz, said the governor was within his authority taking the action and added that all Walz’s actions have been grounded in the desire to keep Minnesotans safe. Walz had been embroiled in a battle with Roman Catholic and Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod congregations across Minnesota over restrictions he placed on gatherings of more than 10 people. He relented and said they could hold services at 25% of capacity if certain conditions were met after they made it clear they planned to defy the order. Earlier this month a pastor in Palmetto, Florida, filed a suit challenging Manatee County’s mask mandate. The Rev. Joel Tillis of Suncoast Baptist Church said the order shouldn’t extend to houses of worship because it hinders prayer. The Thomas More Society, which specializes in litigation on religious issues, filed a lawsuit Wednesday in California Superior Court against Gov. Gavin Newsom and other officials. It seeks to prevent the enforcement of “unconstitutional and onerous coronavirus pandemic regulations” against Grace Community Church in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Sun Valley. The pastor, John MacArthur, has been holding services in recent weeks attended by throngs of worshippers in defiance of state and county limits on gatherings. “We will obey God rather than men,” MacArthur said in a message to his congregation. “He will be on our side.” MacArthur was greeted with applause Sunday when he welcomed worshippers to his church’s “peaceful protest.” One of the two Thomas More lawyers representing MacArthur and his church is Jenna Ellis, who also is a senior legal adviser to President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign. “California’s edicts demanding an indefinite shutdown have gone now far past rational or reasonable and are firmly in the territory of tyranny and discrimination,” Ellis said. “This isn’t about health. It’s about blatantly targeting churches.” The lawsuit contends that restrictions on large gatherings should not be enforced at churches because they were not enforced on large demonstrations against racism and police brutality. Officials in California, where COVID-19 cases have been surging in recent weeks, say strict restrictions remain necessary in Los Angeles County and other counties that are on a state monitoring list for high rates of new infections. Los Angeles County filed a lawsuit against the church Thursday seeking to have in-door, in-person worship services stopped. The lawsuit also seeks to have the church comply with health order requirements, including the use of face covers and physical distancing at outdoor services. Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s office referred a request for comment to Newsom’s office, as the new lawsuit addresses the governor’s executive order. Spokesmen for Newsom did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Across the country the vast majority of churches have cooperated with health authorities and successfully protected their congregations. Yet from the earliest phases of the pandemic, and continuing to this day, some worship services and other religious activities have been identified as sources of local outbreaks. A few churches have been openly defiant, including one in California’s Ventura County which held indoor worship services Sunday despite a judge’s temporary restraining order. Pastor Rob McCoy of Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Newbury Park had vowed to continue in-person services even though the order cited “an immediate threat to public health and safety.” On Tuesday a different judge declined a county request to order the immediate closure of the church, and scheduled a hearing for Aug. 21. Earlier this year the U.S. Supreme Court upheld state COVID-19 restrictions on religious gatherings in a suit filed by South Bay United Pentecostal Church in Chula Vista, California. Religious plaintiffs have prevailed in some litigation, however. In June a federal judge blocked New York state from enforcing restrictions on indoor religious gatherings to 25% capacity when other types of gatherings were limited to 50%. The plaintiffs, represented by the Thomas More Society, were two Catholic priests from Upstate New York and three Orthodox Jewish congregants from Brooklyn. They argued that the restrictions violated their First Amendment rights to practice their religion. The society also claimed a victory in May when Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker withdrew certain pandemic-related mandates on houses of worship. In the new Minnesota case, the plaintiffs were Protestant churches in the towns of Alexandria, Buffalo and Crosby, along with their pastors. “Our people are commanded to meet together in fellowship,” Eric Anderson, pastor of Life Spring Church in Crosby, said at a news conference Thursday. “They can’t fellowship with masks on their faces.” Kaardal, the Thomas Moore lawyer, argued that Walz’s executive order usurped the legislature’s lawmaking powers. Before Trump becomes the Prez his other lawyer Michael Cohen should remind his proposed White House Counsel Donald McGahn, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal et al about a couple emails I sent them just after Canada Day 2015 N'esy Pas PM Trudeau "The Younger"?
Donald Trump Indictment: Why Trumps' Critic Drew Findling Turned Defence Attorney For Him | #newsmo Aug 22, 2023
The Defense Lawyers for Trump and 18 Associates in Georgia Election Interference CaseMany of the lawyers, including a couple former and current partners in Am Law 200 firms, specialize in white-collar defense or were former federal prosecutors. August 21, 2023 at 07:04 PM 10 minute read
This article was updated to include attorney information for Ray Smith III, Robert Cheeley and Jenna Ellis. Defense lawyers for Donald Trump and 18 other defendants charged in the Aug. 14 indictment for alleged interference in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election range from a small-town defense lawyer to the “Billion Dollar Lawyer” to the stars. Many of the lawyers, including a couple former and current partners in Am Law 200 firms, specialize in white-collar defense or were former federal prosecutors. The 41-count indictment in Fulton County Superior Court names Trump and some of his former attorneys, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman. It also names some national and Georgia supporters of the former president, a sitting state senator and some former local election and Republican Party officials Those indicted included Trump, Giuliani, Eastman and former Georgia GOP leader David Shafer; State Sen. Shawn Still; pro-Trump attorneys Robert Cheeley and Kenneth Chesebro; former Coffee County GOP official Cathy Latham; former Coffee County elections director Misty Hampton; Trump campaign official Michael Roman; Atlanta bail bondsman Scott Graham Hall; Trump campaign attorneys Ray Smith III, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell; Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark; and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Others include Harrison “Willie” Floyd, head of Black Voices for Trump, as well as Trevian Kutti, a publicist, and Illinois pastor Stephen Lee, both tied to an alleged intimidation effort of an election official. According to several news reports and other public data, the following is a list of some defendants and the lawyers representing them in the election interference case. FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:Drew Findling of The Findling Law Firm in Atlanta is a criminal defense lawyer nicknamed the “#BillionDollarLawyer” after successfully representing hip hop stars such as Cardi B and Gucci Mane against criminal charges. He began his career as a public defender and also has represented prominent political clients in the Atlanta area. He helped win Victor Hill, the former sheriff of Clayton County, Georgia, an acquittal on corruption charges in 2013. He also earned a significant reduction in the jail time prosecutors recommended in a separate inmate constitutional rights violation case against Hill earlier this year. Findling is a former national president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers who previously criticized Trump as “racist” on a social media platform in 2018. However, the former president hired Findling to defend him in the Georgia investigation in August 2022. Marissa Goldberg is a partner in The Findling Law Firm and has assisted in legal challenges to District Attorney Fani Willis’ investigation earlier this year. Jennifer Little is a former DeKalb County, Georgia, prosecutor who operates a boutique criminal defense practice, Jennifer Little Law, based in the growing area near the Atlanta Braves’ sports and entertainment complex. She formerly practiced with the Fried Bonder White firm for nine years before opening her own practice and has primarily defended white-collar criminal clients. JOHN EASTMAN:Eastman is accused of devising and promoting a six-step plan for then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn Joe Biden’s victory while presiding over the Electoral College certification on Jan. 6, 2021. He also urged Georgia state lawmakers to appoint fake GOP electors to replace the legitimate slate of Democratic electors, CNN reported. Harvey Silverglate of the Boston firm Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein is representing Eastman. Silverglate is a longtime criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer who is both a former board member of the American Civil Liberties Union and an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute. DAVID SHAFER:Shafer is former chairman of the Georgia Republican Party and allegedly presented himself as the “chairperson” of the Electoral College of Georgia leading the 16 “fake electors” who met at the state Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020, declaring falsely that Trump had won. Shafer is facing eight charges, including false statements and writings, forgery in the first degree and impersonating a public officer. His attorneys include Craig Gillen of Gillen & Lake and Holly Pierson of Pierson Law. Their work for Shafer has included attempts to meet with District Attorney Fani Willis to claim legal precedent for the alternate electors from the 1960 presidential election in Hawaii. Gillen’s work as a private attorney has included white-collar defense. He secured one of only two acquittals in the federal prosecution of Gold Club strip club racketeering defendants in Atlanta, which received nationwide coverage in 2001. He originally made his mark in the 1980s as a federal prosecutor in Georgia in the criminal case of former Congressman Patrick Swindall. Gillen also was the de facto leader of the federal Office of the Independent Counsel for the Iran/Contra weapons scandal in Washington, D.C., in 1990 and supervised most of the investigations. Pierson has operated Pierson Law, an Atlanta litigation and compliance boutique focusing on government investigations, business and health care litigation, since 2013. She also is an ex-North Carolina federal prosecutor and formerly practiced with King & Spalding, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, Bryan Cave and Morris, Manning & Martin. STATE SEN. SHAWN STILL:Still is charged with being one of Georgia’s “fake electors” who met at the State Capitol in December 2020, according to the Associated Press. His seven charges include forgery in the first degree, violating Georgia’s RICO act, and criminal attempt to commit filing false documents. Tom Bever, an Atlanta litigation lawyer and partner with Smith, Gambrill & Russell, is representing Still. Bever’s defense work has included reducing a recommended 30-month jail term to a six-month home detention sentence for a businessman accused in a federal opioid trial in 2021. He is another former federal prosecutor who now focuses his practice on white-collar criminal defense and commercial litigation. He was a longtime lawyer and partner in what is now Chilivis Grubman Dalbey & Warner before moving to Smith Gambrell Russell in 2019. He then served in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, prosecuting fraud, public corruption and general crimes before serving as associate counsel with Gillen in the Office of Independent Counsel conducting the Iran/Contra investigation, according to his bio on the law firm website. RAY SMITH III:Don Samuel and Amanda Clark Palmer, both of Garland, Samuel & Loeb in Atlanta, and Bruce Morris of Finestone & Morris, are representing Smith. Samuel, a longtime white-collar defense lawyer, has extensive experience in high-profile cases as well as legal actions related to the 2020 election in Georgia. He represented the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections and its members “in various controversies and litigation arising out of the 2020 election,” according to his website. He also served as a special assistant legal counsel representing the Georgia General Assembly “in connection with grand jury proceedings also addressing the 2020 election,” his website stated. He also served as counsel in the last three of the murder trials of Savannah, Georgia, antique dealer Jim Williams, whose case was the basis for the best-selling book “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” and the movie directed by Clint Eastwood. Williams was tried four times for murder before being acquitted in the last trial. Charges against Smith—a lawyer and partner in the Atlanta firm Smith & Liss—include solicitation of violation of oath by public officer, conspiracy to commit false statements and writings, and conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer. Smith, a lawyer for Trump’s 2020 campaign, was part of lawsuits challenging Georgia’s 2020 election results. Smith is accused of helping to find witnesses for hearings before groups of Georgia lawmakers in December 2020 studying alleged issues with the state’s election, the Associated Press reported. He allegedly advised the 16 “fake electors” who met at the Georgia State Capitol and voted for Trump, and later reportedly sent documents to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger declaring Trump the winner of the state’s electoral votes. His extensive work behind the scenes in metro Atlanta and state government has included serving on the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, the state government board that operates the park that features a rock carving and is the largest memorial to the Confederacy in the U.S. He also previously served on the Fulton County Board of Elections and Registrations. ROBERT CHEELEY:Richard Rice of The Rice Law Firm and Christopher S. Anulewicz of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings are representing Cheeley on the charges listed in the indictment, Rice said Tuesday. Cheeley, a trial attorney with the Cheeley Law Group in Atlanta, reportedly presented to state lawmakers video clips of election workers allegedly double- and triple-counting votes at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, CNN reported. He is facing 10 charges, including violation of the Georgia RICO Act and forgery and is the only defendant charged with perjury. CATHY LATHAM:Another alleged “fake elector,” Latham is former chairwoman of the Coffee County Republican Party in south Georgia and was reportedly present when a computer forensics team from SullivanStrickler allegedly gained “unauthorized access” by copying software and data from the county’s election equipment. The indictment states Atlanta bail bondsman Scott Hall, Latham and Misty Hampton “aided, abetted, and encouraged” employees from SullivanStrickler to access voting equipment inside the Coffee County Board of Elections Registration office. Latham’s attorney could not be confirmed. MISTY HAMPTON:Brunswick attorney Jonathan R. Miller III is representing Hampton. Miller is a solo practitioner and formerly was a prosecutor in the district attorney’s office in the Brunswick Judicial Circuit. Hampton is a former Coffee County elections director who was allegedly involved in the scheme to grant Trump supporters unauthorized access to election equipment in Douglas, Georgia. The indictment states Atlanta bail bondsman Scott Hall, Latham and Hampton “aided, abetted, and encouraged” employees from SullivanStrickler to access voting equipment inside the Coffee County Board of Elections Registration office. Neither of the SullivanStrickler workers were charged in the indictment. Hampton is facing seven charges, including conspiracy to commit election fraud and conspiracy to commit computer theft. STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE:Lee, a 70-year-old Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod minister, is a pastor at Living Word Lutheran Church in Orland Park, Illinois. Lee was allegedly involved in an effort to intimidate Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman in order to influence her testimony to the Fulton County grand jury. Lee allegedly traveled to Freeman’s home and knocked on her door, according to the indictment. Lee is facing five charges, including two counts of criminal attempt to commit influencing witnesses. The attorney for Lee, David Shestokas, ran for the Republican nomination for Illinois attorney general in 2022 and served on Trump’s legal team in Pennsylvania, making false claims about illegal voting in the state, according to various publications. KENNETH CHESEBRO:Chesebro, an attorney who helped Trump’s 2020 campaign, allegedly worked with 16 Georgia Republicans to sign a certificate declaring that Trump won and they were the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors. Atlanta attorney Scott R. Grubman of Chilivis Grubman Dalbey & Warner is representing Chesebro on the charges. He is a former federal prosecutor whose practice includes white-collar criminal defense. Among his clients was an undisclosed “key witness” before the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. JENNA ELLIS:Ellis, a Colorado lawyer who represented Trump’s campaign in 2020, planned the January 2021 hearings that included Giuliani before Georgia lawmakers at the State Capitol that pushed fraud claims. The indictment alleges the claims were part of the conspiracy to change the election’s outcome. In social media, Ellis said in a crowdfunding plea for funds for her legal defense that her attorney is Mike Melito of Melito Law in Denver. Melito specializes in white-collar and criminal defense, according to his website. However, she also hired Georgia representation for her defense. Frank and Laura Hogue of the Hogue Griffin law firm in Macon, Georgia, confirmed they are representing Ellis. The Daily Report could not immediately confirm lawyers for the remaining defendants. Former President Donald Trump has replaced his top Georgia lawyer ahead of his surrender Thursday evening, sources tell CNN. In replacing Drew Findling with Steven Sadow, an Atlanta-based attorney whose website profile describes him as a “special counsel for white collar and high-profile defense,” Trump is adding an attorney who has previously challenged the state’s broad RICO law, under which Trump and his 18 co-defendants have been charged. Sadow filed paperwork Thursday morning to formally represent the former president in the case. A Trump source indicated that this was not about Findling’s performance, while another familiar with Sadow called him the “best criminal defense attorney in Georgia.” Trump’s other Georgia attorney, Jennifer Little, is expected to stay on the legal team and work with Sadow. “I have been retained to represent President Trump in the Fulton County, Georgia case. The president should never have been indicted. He is innocent of all the charges brought against him,” Sadow said in a statement. “We look forward to the case being dismissed or, if necessary, an unbiased, open minded jury finding the president not guilty. Prosecutions intended to advance or serve the ambitions and careers of political opponents of the president have no place in our justice system.” In 2021, Sadow criticized RICO charges as a way for prosecutors to introduce evidence that would otherwise not be admissible during an interview about the potential charges Trump faced in Georgia. Sadow also represented rapper Gunna in a separate RICO case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis last year that accused the rapper, whose real name is Sergio Kitchens, of participating in criminal street gang activity. In December, Kitchens was released after reaching a plea deal that resulted in community service. The abrupt switch in legal representation comes after Trump hired Findling, a prominent criminal defense attorney, to take the Fulton County case in August 2022. Findling made a number of aggressive – and ultimately unsuccessful – moves to try to have evidence in the case tossed and Willis disqualified even before she announced charges against Trump. Why Did Trump Lose His ‘Billion Dollar Lawyer’?Nasty
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Last month, when Donald Trump parted ways with “Billion Dollar Lawyer” Drew Findling as his lead criminal defense attorney in the Fulton County, Georgia, case, the decision was then met with surprise and dismay, including among some of Trump’s closest advisers and lawyers. At first, the reasons behind the departure were opaque, with several high-ranking members of Team Trump asking one another why the ex-president would ditch someone who was internally viewed as perhaps Trump’s single most competent attorney. Findling was in the middle of leading the legal defense against the one prosecution that is likely the most perilous for Trump — and the lawyer was replaced just as the former president was about to have his historic mug shot taken in Georgia. But as the dust settled, some of the reasons behind this shakeup became clearer. According to three sources with knowledge of the matter, the high-profile departure was largely driven by the same kind of power struggles that have long plagued Trump’s legal teams, even (or, especially) during times when Trump is trying his hardest to stay out of prison. Those problems only intensified when it became clear that Fulton County prosecutors were going to pursue a wide-ranging indictment of Trump and many of his confidants; it was the kind of nightmare scenario that Findling, well-known for his successful defenses of Cardi B and Offset, was hired to attempt to prevent. The sources say that the problems stemmed in part from the tensions between Boris Epstheyn, a senior advisor to Trump who has also acted as an in-house counsel to the former president throughout the various criminal cases against him, and Findling. One of these sources tells Rolling Stone that tensions arose over the fact that “Boris [Epshteyn] did not control him.” This source adds that the tense working relationship between Epshteyn and Findling was evident to many within MAGA circles. “It was pretty well known,” this person says. Findling’s impending departure became apparent to others weeks before his announced departure in August as Epstheyn began a search for another Atlanta criminal defense attorney, according to the sources. One Trump advisor disputed the reports of tensions between the two attorneys, and pointed instead to the strength and reputation of the team’s current lead attorney in the Georgia case, Steve Sadow, as the reason for the transition. Like Findling, Sadow has experience representing celebrities, including the rapper Gunna, who have faced conspiracy charges in Fulton County. After word of Findling’s departure leaked in August, Sadow joined the legal team as lead attorney. (Jennifer Little, another Georgia criminal defense attorney who worked alongside Findling on the legal team, has stayed on.) Findling represented a smart choice for defending Trump in the Fulton County conspiracy case. A former president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, he has represented a number of celebrity clients in Atlanta facing charges under Georgia’s RICO and conspiracy statutes, including rapper YFN Lucci. “He is insightful and one of the finest lawyers I’ve ever dealt with,” says L. David Wolfe, an Atlanta criminal defense attorney who has known Findling since 1989 and represented Trump associates charged in the Fulton County case like Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman. “He is somebody that can convince a jury and also charm a jury.” Findling also lent credibility to the newfound complaints among MAGA supporters about Fulton County prosecutors aggressive use of the conspiracy laws. Long before Fulton County charged Trump, Findling was frequent critic of the Georgia RICO statute, telling reporters that “we’ve exaggerated what RICO is Atlanta” and calling the law “completely fucking racist.” But as the months dragged on, fissures between Findling and some of Trump’s other lawyers began to emerge. A small group of Trump loyalists — such as Epstheyn — would argue to the former president that Findling was not a team player, that he couldn’t be completely trusted to defend the ex-president, and that he was “anti-Trump,” according to those familiar with the matter. (It is a matter of public record that Findling has politically liberal views, and that he has publicly posted harshly negative tweets about Trump before representing him. Findling has consistently stated that his personal political beliefs aren’t relevant to his job of representing his clients.) And as it became apparent that the Trump legal team would be unable to stop a Fulton County indictment of Trump on his election-rigging efforts, internal displeasure with Findling’s work and style deepened. For instance, Trump, Epstheyn, and some others in the inner circle grew frustrated with Findling’s apparent unwillingness to wage on the kind of flamboyant, scorched-earth pre-trial strategy that Trump often demands of his lawyers and aides in these cases, sources recount. This decidedly Trumpian approach would have included embracing, or at least entertaining the former president’s anti-democratic lies about the 2020 election being “stolen” from him. It would have also included Findling and Trump’s Georgia legal team embarking on a mud-slinging, all-out campaign for the past year, such as aggressively assailing the character of Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis and others involved. “It just wasn’t the right fit,” one of the sources familiar with the situation says. A spokesperson for Findling declined to answer questions from Rolling Stone or make him available for an interview. Asked for comment, a Trump spokesman wrote in a statement that “The Trump legal team is completely aligned in battling these illegal and un-Constitutional witch-hunts.” They added that “Those who are actually on the team are focused on the work necessary to ensure that President Trump is vindicated across the board, and that the corrupt hoaxes aimed at interfering with the 2024 Presidential Election will fail.” The tension in the Fulton County case echoes similar feuds that led to the unraveling of Trump’s legal team representing him in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case. As Rolling Stone reported in June, Epstheyn repeatedly clashed with other top Trump attorneys, including Jim Trusty, John Rowley, and Timothy Parlatore over control of Trump’s legal defense. Parlatore’s frustration became so great he resigned from the legal team in April, citing frustration with Epshteyn and his belief that the attorney hampered his ability to defend Trump. Asked on Wednesday about Rolling Stone’s reporting on tensions between Findling and Epshteyn, Parlatore responded: “It does not surprise me.” Perhaps the Findling-Trump match was bound to end poorly. Trump has been keen to turn any court case about the 2020 election into an opportunity to re-air his bogus conspiracy theories about election fraud. As Rolling Stone reported in July, he has pressed lawyers in his Washington, DC election interference case to parrot his election lies and use any trial to display “proof” that the election was stolen. While attorneys like John Lauro have eagerly taken up that challenge, Findling never endorsed Trump’s election fraud narrative in his limited public comments about the case. In a rare comment on the case during an appearance MSNBC, Findling instead explicitly stated that he didn’t want to “start getting into political statements” when discussing Trump’s plight in Fulton County. John F. LauroPrincipalOFFICES:New York 646.746.8659 Tampa 813.222.8990 jlauro@laurosinger.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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