Wow.
"The FCAC's 2020-21 COVID-19 #Financial Well-being Survey showed that approximately 2 per cent of #Canadians used an online non-bank lender or #PaydayLoan company in the previous 12 months."
Payday loans are crazy #expensive, often close to 60% p.a. (sixty!) if you include the fees. Charging above 60% is #criminal #usury in #Canada. However, loans of up to $1500 are exempt, so the typical payday loan #lender could charge even more.
#poverty #money #ripoff #poor
#financial #canadians #paydayloan #expensive #criminal #usury #canada #lender #poverty #money #ripoff #poor
#TrumpHearings expected in at least #Florida & #Georgia this week
In GA, where #Trump & 18 co-defendants face state charges for trying to overturn #Biden’s 2020 victory, the judge schedules weekly hearings to review the many requests he is getting from defendants & prosecutors. At Thursday’s #hearing, we may get more insight into when Trump will go on #trial there.
#Criminal #conspiracy #RICO
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/09/10/pretrial-palooza-is-underway-donald-trump/
#trumphearings #florida #georgia #trump #biden #hearing #trial #criminal #conspiracy #rico
As #GOP investigates #prosecutors, experts worry about #JudicialIndependence
Investigate the investigators.
…The strategy has been effective in shaping #PublicOpinion….
But in the wake of 91 #criminal #charges against #Trump, the party’s blitz of attacks on prosecutors threatens to degrade an important precedent that protects prosecutorial #independence & the ability to fairly root out wrongdoing w/o partisan #influence or gain….
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/09/republican-investigations-judicial-independence/
#gop #prosecutors #judicialindependence #publicopinion #criminal #charges #trump #independence #influence
It’s so hush-hush that his spox, Steven Cheung, claimed no knowledge of its existence.
“I’ve never heard of a N Flagler office,” Cheung said, when… asked….
But it’s here, across the hall from an #IRS suite w/a door marked “#criminal investigation” & one floor below an outpost for #Trump’s #SecretService detail. 3 sources confirmed the location of the office.
#irs #criminal #trump #secretservice
El sistema #capitalista (incompatible a mi entender con la propia #humanidad) se sale nuevamente con una de las suyas: designar, a través del aparato judicial, como supuestos "terroristas" a quienes cuestionan su #modelo de producción, su innegable #explotación indiscriminada de #recursos y la #destrucción que causa al #planeta.
Es una #operación clara que ya se difunde en los #medios, que se encargan de presentar a cualquier #ecologista como "loco", "extremista" o ya abiertamente un #criminal.
Una muestra más de lo que están dispuestos a hacer los grandes dueños del "libre mercado" para evitar el #colapso de sus cuentas #bancarias, sin importar que con eso nos jodan al 99% de los demás.
Ahora no son #villanos quienes talan en el #Amazonas o secan nuestros ríos, sino quienes hablan en favor de la #naturaleza y exigen medidas urgentes para frenar el #cambioclimático.
Simplemente asqueroso🤮 cómo se esfuerzan en autoblanquearse.
#capitalista #humanidad #modelo #explotacion #recursos #destruccion #planeta #operacion #medios #ecologista #criminal #colapso #bancarias #villanos #amazonas #naturaleza #cambioclimatico
A #Fulton judge last summer disqualified #FaniWillis from investigating #BurtJones, saying the DA had a #political #conflict of interest. The Prosecuting Attorneys Council of #Georgia is weighing whether to appoint a #SpecialCounsel to see whether Jones should face charges.
#gapol #law #legal #RICO #Criminal #conspiracy #Trump #FakeElectors
#fulton #faniwillis #burtjones #political #conflict #georgia #specialcounsel #gapol #law #legal #rico #criminal #conspiracy #trump #fakeelectors
Also from Tamar:
There were 20 people whom special #GrandJury recommended for #indictment who have NOT been #charged.
In bold are people who have #immunity deals in place, per previous #court #filings. #FaniWillis was DQed from pursuing #BurtJones. Others could have #deals in place
#grandjury #indictment #charged #immunity #court #filings #faniwillis #burtjones #deals #georgia #law #legal #rico #criminal #conspiracy #trump
From The AJC’s Tamar Hallerman:
Members of the #FultonCounty special purpose #GrandJury that investigated interference in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election recommended that dozens of people be indicted for alleged #crimes, including …#Trump, U.S. Sen. #LindseyGraham & fmr #Georgia U.S. Sens. #DavidPerdue & #KellyLoeffler.
#fultoncounty #grandjury #crimes #trump #lindseygraham #georgia #davidperdue #kellyloeffler #law #legal #rico #criminal #conspiracy
A judge has just released the full #report compiled by a #FultonCounty special #GrandJury that laid the groundwork for the #ElectionInterference #indictments last month against #Trump & his 18 #CoDefendants.
#Georgia #law #legal #RICO #Criminal #conspiracy
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23944940-2022-ex-000024_-_ex_parte_order_of_the_judge__3
#breaking #news #report #fultoncounty #grandjury #electioninterference #indictments #trump #codefendants #georgia #law #legal #rico #criminal #conspiracy
"But, so far, no one has been willing to employ the power of the judicial system to stem the violent incitements and the danger they are to the process of justice and democracy.
That must change. Either there’s rule of law or there isn’t."
#Trump #crime #criminal #InmateP01135809 #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #violence
#trump #crime #criminal #inmatep01135809 #lawandorder #biglie #insurrection #violence
"In a sane world, neither the Russians nor a criminally charged ex-president of the United States would be in a position to endanger the lives of Americans performing this most fundamental task of citizenship."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #crime #criminal #InmateP01135809 #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #violence
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#trump #crime #criminal #inmatep01135809 #lawandorder #biglie #insurrection #violence
"In a federal #trial in Washington that included just one day of testimony from three prosecution witnesses, and no witnesses for #Navarro, the 74-year-old former trade adviser was convicted of the two #contempt charges he faced, each punishable by up to a year behind bars...
Navarro is the second high-ranking #Trump official to be convicted in a #criminal case related to efforts to undo President Biden’s victory"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/09/07/peter-navarro-guilty-contempt/
#trial #navarro #contempt #trump #criminal #gop #crime #politics #uspol #usa #News
#FaniWillis responds to claims by #FakeElectors who claim they were following the precedent set by Democrats in Hawaii after the 1960 election. Totally different!
The Hawaiian Dems who signed false certificates in 1960, later had those certificates affirmed winners after a recount.
#Trump #Georgia #law #legal #Criminal #Conspiracy #RICO #GOP #Republican #MAGA #ConfederacyOfDunces
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.319599/gov.uscourts.gand.319599.8.0.pdf
#faniwillis #fakeelectors #trump #georgia #law #legal #criminal #conspiracy #rico #gop #republican #maga #confederacyofdunces
The statement is largely anodyne in its prose & is careful not to include specific examples that could seem to refer to a current or a former elected leader. But some of its wording, & its timing, appear to serve as a subtle #rebuke of former President Donald J. #Trump, who tried to overturn the last presidential election, continues to deny he lost & is now the Republican front-runner for 2024, even as he faces 4 #criminal #indictments.
#rebuke #trump #criminal #indictments
#PeterNavarro, a trade adviser to #Trump, was convicted on Thurs of 2 counts of #criminal #contempt of Congress over his defiance of a #subpoena from the House select cmte investigating the #Jan6 attack on the Capitol.
The verdict, coming after nearly 4 hours of deliberation in Federal District Court in Washington, made #Navarro the second top adviser of Trump’s to be found #guilty of contempt for defying the cmte’s inquiry.
#peternavarro #trump #criminal #contempt #subpoena #jan6 #navarro #guilty
#Trump has notified the #FultonCounty Superior #Court that he "may" try to move his state case to #FederalCourt.
This is pretty weird, because it isn’t a thing, legally.
#law #legal #Georgia #Criminal #Conspiracy #RICO
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23941427-trump-filing-on-moving-case-to-federal-court
#trump #fultoncounty #court #federalcourt #law #legal #georgia #criminal #conspiracy #rico
“Its obvious purpose is to #obstruct a #Georgia criminal proceeding & to advance outrageous misrepresentations,” #Willis wrote of #Jordan’s letter. “As I make clear below, there is no justification in the #Constitution for #Congress to interfere w/a state #criminal matter, as you attempt to do.”
#obstruct #georgia #willis #jordan #constitution #congress #criminal #performativepolitics #gymjordan #law
#Jordan suggested #Willis is attempting to interfere w/ the 2024 election…. And he said her investigation could infringe on the free speech & other rights of #Trump & other defendants.
On Thurs, Willis fired back, saying Jordan’s Aug. 24 letter included “inaccurate information & misleading statements.” She accused Jodan of improperly interfering w/a #state #criminal case & attempting to punish her for personal #political gain.
#jordan #willis #trump #state #criminal #political
The dispute is playing out amid broader upheaval in Spanish #soccer, w/the firing on Tues of the #women’s national soccer coach, #JorgeVilda, whom players had criticized for his domineering management style, & the filing of a #criminal complaint against #LuisRubiales, the head of the #Spain’s soccer fed, by #JenniferHermoso, a player on the national women’s team whom he forcibly kissed during a public celebration of the team’s #WorldCup final victory….
#soccer #women #jorgevilda #criminal #luisrubiales #spain #jenniferhermoso #worldcup #equalpay #misogyny #malesupremacy
"If televised preachers, and televised quacks, and reruns of NCIS have grown over-familiar for your weekday viewing, take a ride down the streaming river of content to Austin, where the Texas Senate is trying Attorney General Ken Paxton on articles of impeachment for allegedly being a greedy mofo."
~ Charles Pierce
#Texas #Republicans #KenPaxton #impeachment #crime #criminal
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a45027065/ken-paxton-impeachment-trial/
#texas #republicans #kenpaxton #impeachment #crime #criminal