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Subject: Ethics? No... It's, We Don't Need No MORE Stinkin' Ethics
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:55:38 -0500
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On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:31:30 +0000, Lee says...
>
> Lindsey Graham Blocks Democrats'
> Attempt to Pass Supreme Court
> Ethics Bill
> June 13
>
> Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham on
> Wednesday blocked an attempt by
> Senate Democrats to pass Supreme
> Court reform legislation by
> unanimous consent, thwarting
> efforts to establish a binding
> ethics code for the nation's top
> court as two of its right-wing
> justices come under fire for
> taking billionaire-funded luxury
> vacations and flying flags
> associated with the January 6
> insurrection.
So, it's another political PARTISAN law.
> The Democratic legislation?titled
> the the Supreme Court Ethics,
> Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT)
> Act?advanced out of the Senate
> Judiciary Committee nearly a year
> ago without any GOP support. The
> bill would give the high court
> 180 days to adopt a binding code
> of ethics and establish new
> recusal requirements surrounding
> justices' acceptance of gifts.
> Supreme Court justices are
> currently the only federal judges
> in the U.S. not bound by an ethics
> code.
Reeeeeealllllly?
Date of your article: June 13, 2024
=====
The Supreme Court Adopts Code of Ethics - NPR
November 13, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday adopted a new ethics code, which all nine
justices signed.
"The absence of a Code, however, has led in recent years to the
misunderstanding that the Justices of this Court, unlike all other jurists in
this country, regard themselves as unrestricted by any ethics rules," they
wrote. "To dispel this misunderstanding, we are issuing this Code, which
largely represents a codification of principles that we have long regarded as
governing our conduct."
> "Justice Alito, as well, went on
> a luxury fishing trip that should
> have cost him over $100,000?but
> it didn't cost him a dime,
> because the trip was funded by
> a billionaire and organized by
> rightwing kingpin Leonard Leo.
> Both Justice Thomas and Justice
> Alito have failed to disclose
> gifts they have accepted?in clear
> violation of financial disclosure
> requirements under federal law.
> But it isn't only this shameless
> conduct that has cast a dark
> shadow over the court. Time and
> again, these justices' actions
> have cast doubt on their
> impartiality in cases before the
> court."
Soooo... not ONE left-wing justice has ever taken gifts?
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg accepted over $59,000 in gifts, an $8,220 flight
from the Supreme Court of Korea.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor accepted almost $16,000 in gifts, and Justice Ketanji
Brown Jackson received almost $9,000.
The three Donald Trump appointees accepted the least in gifts, according to the
report. Justice Neil Gorsuch took $2,450, Justice Amy Coney Barrett received
$500, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh received a mere $100 worth of gifts.
The report found only two justices reported 100% of the gifts they received.
Former Justice David Souter, who stepped down in 2009, reported one gift worth
$349. Justice John Paul Stevens, who left the court in 2010, reported over 20
gifts worth $91,408.
RIGHT-WING TRASH!
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Joe Biden: Criminal
Phone Calls: Testimony from witnesses who told lawmakers Biden joined on
"multiple phone calls and had multiple interactions, dinners" with his son's
business partners, which the speaker alleged led to millions of dollars in
payments and cars to Hunter Biden and his associates.
Hunter Biden's former business partner Devon Archer testified to the House
Oversight Committee in July that he witnessed then-Vice President Biden and his
son have multiple "casual conversations" in the presence of Hunter's business
partners, including on speakerphone, but Archer said they did not involve any
business discussions.
Payments to Family Members: Bank records show Hunter Biden and his business
partners received $20 million in payments from various foreign entities and
about $7 million went directly to Biden family members, according to a
Washington Post analysis.
Bank Records: Suspicious Activity Reports detail various foreign transactions
Hunter Biden and his business partners engaged in-banks are required to file
these reports on a routine basis with the federal government to flag potential
illegal activity.
Bribery: Bribery allegation brought by an FBI source that alleges the CEO of
Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company Hunter Biden sat on the board of, paid $10
million to members of the Biden family to help remove a Ukrainian corruption
prosecutor.
The Bidens and their associates have received over $20 million in payments from
foreign entities.
Romania: On September 28, 2015, Vice President Biden welcomed Romanian
President Klaus Iohannis to the White House. Within five weeks of this meeting,
a Romanian businessman involved with a high-profile corruption prosecution in
Romania, Gabriel Popoviciu, began depositing a Biden associate's bank account,
which ultimately made their way into Biden family accounts. Popoviciu made
sixteen of the seventeen payments, totaling over $3 million, to the Biden
associate account while Joe Biden was Vice President. Biden family accounts
ultimately received approximately $1.038 million. The total amount from Romania
to the Biden family and their associates is over $3 million.
China- CEFC: On March 1, 2017-less than two months after Vice President Joe
Biden left public office-State Energy HK Limited, a Chinese company, wired $3
million to a Biden associate's account. This is the same bank account used in
the above "Romania" section. After the Chinese company wired the Biden
associate account the $3 million, the Biden family received approximately
$1,065,692 over a three-month period in different bank accounts. Additionally,
the CEFC Chairman gives Hunter Biden a diamond worth $80,000. Lastly, CEFC
creates a joint venture with the Bidens in the summer of 2017. The timeline
lays out the "WhatsApp" messages and subsequent wires from the Chinese to the
Bidens of $100,000 and $5 million. The total amount from China, specifically
with CEFC and their related entities, to the Biden family and their associates
is over $8 million.
China- Bohai Harvest RST Equity Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd. (BHR):
More information will be provided in our upcoming Fourth Bank Memorandum.
Kazakhstan: On April 22, 2014, Kenes Rakishev, a Kazakhstani oligarch used his
Singaporean entity, Novatus Holdings, to wire one of Hunter Biden's Rosemont
Seneca entities $142,300. The very next day-April 23, 2014-the Rosemont Seneca
entity transferred the exact same amount of money to a car dealership for a car
for Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden and Devon Archer would represent Burisma in
Kazakhstan in May/June of 2014 as the company attempted to broker a three-way
deal among Burisma, the Kazakhstan government, and a Chinese state-owned energy
company.
Ukraine: Devon Archer joined the Burisma board of directors in spring of 2014
and was joined by Hunter Biden shortly thereafter. Hunter Biden joined the
company as counsel, but after a meeting with Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky in
Lake Como, Italy, was elevated to the board of directors in the spring of 2014.
Both Biden and Archer were each paid $1 million per year for their positions on
the board of directors. In December 2015, after a Burisma board of directors
meeting, Zlochevsky and Hunter Biden "called D.C." in the wake of mounting
pressures the company was facing. Zlochevsky was later charged with bribing
Ukrainian officials with $6 million in an attempt to delay or drop the
investigation into his company. The total amount from Ukraine to the Biden
family and their associates is $6.5 million.
Russia: On February 14, 2014, a Russian oligarch and Russia's richest woman,
Yelena Baturina, wired a Rosemont Seneca entity $3.5 million. On March 11,
2014, the wire was split up: $750,000 was transferred to Devon Archer, and the
remainder was sent to Rosemont Seneca Bohai, a company Devon Archer and Hunter
Biden split equally. In spring of 2014, Yelena Baturina joined Hunter Biden and
Devon Archer to share a meal with then-Vice President Biden at a restaurant in
Washington, D.C. The total amount from Russia to the Biden family and their
associates is $3.5 million.