Торжество правосудия

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Сегодня Реалити Виннер была осуждена на пять лет (63 месяца) заключения за слив в прессу секретного документа АНБ о российском вмешательстве в выборы.

Reality Winner, the former Air Force linguist and intelligence contractor who pleaded guilty in June to leaking a top-secret government report on Russian hacking, was sentenced on Thursday to five years and three months in federal prison.
Ms. Winner, 26, is the first person to be sentenced under the Espionage Act since President Trump took office. Prosecutors said her sentence was the longest ever imposed in federal court for an unauthorized release of government information to the media.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/us/reality-winner-nsa-sentence.html

Но основные судебные новости случились во вторник.

Here's the front page of The New York Times 8/22/2018. Read our coverage from a long, busy day of news here: https://t.co/StRCWRYlLj pic.twitter.com/8B5pZZK8Mb

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 22, 2018

1. Майкл Коэн сдался ФБР и признал себя виновным по восьми обвинениям. Они не включают события Рашагейта, но включают уклонение от уплаты налогов и нелегальные выплаты Карен Дуглас и Святой Сторми Дэниелс. Под присягой он признал, что делал эти выплаты по прямому указанию Трампа, таким образом обозначив того в качестве соучастника преступления.

Today he stood up and testified under oath that Donald Trump directed him to commit a crime by making payments to two women for the principal purpose of influencing an election. If those payments were a crime for Michael Cohen, then why wouldn't they be a crime for Donald Trump?

— Lanny Davis (@LannyDavis) August 21, 2018

Информацию Коэна подтверждает хозяин National Enquirer Дэвид Пекер, который получил иммунитет в обмен на свидетельские показания.

David Pecker, the chief executive of the company that publishes the National Enquirer, was granted immunity by federal prosecutors for providing information about Michael Cohen and Donald Trump in the criminal investigation into hush-money payments for two women during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to people familiar with the matter.
In exchange for immunity, Mr. Pecker, CEO of American Media, Inc. and a longtime friend of Mr. Trump, has met with prosecutors and shared details about payments Mr. Cohen arranged in an effort to silence two women who alleged sexual encounters with Mr. Trump, including Mr. Trump’s knowledge of the deals, some of the people said.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pecker-granted-immunity-in-cohen-case-1535041976

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