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Looking backward and forward to two major events of recent days—First, the anticipated findings of the House Committee on the January 6 Insurrection (including legislative recommendations and criminal referrals), coupled with the latest, high-profile sentencing of a Capitol Building rioter, a Congressional move under the Fourteenth Amendment to prevent former President Trump from holding federal office, the disbarring of a Trump attorney for litigation abuses, and the grand jury focus on an incumbent congressman for his role in promoting attempts to invalidate the legitimate results of the 2020 Presidential election. Second, the revelation of federal charges against Sam Bankman-Fried for defrauding investors and committing campaign finance violations in the conduct of his cryptocurrency business, along with the Congressional testimony of the business manager now assigned to manage what may be the largest financial disaster of recent times.
In other venues of criminal prosecution, the state court sentencings of three additional defendants previously convicted of a conspiracy to kidnap the Michigan governor—to 12-, 10-, and 7-year terms of imprisonment. In Illinois, the decision by the state prosecutor to charge the father of the gunman who killed seven people in Highland Park with knowingly and recklessly supporting his son’s gun application permit. Back in New York, the revelation that the Trump Organization was secretly held in contempt of court for failing to turn over evidence during the criminal investigation of the state tax fraud case, recently resulting in a felony conviction of two family companies. And the scheduling for November of 2023 by the same judge who presided over that Trump matter of the criminal trial of Steve Bannon for defrauding investors in a scheme to build a southern border wall. Finally, the setting of an unrelated state trial against the Trump Corporation for promoting a multi-level marketing scheme—in January of 2024, as the main year of the next Presidential campaign begins, including Donald Trump as a candidate.
“Morning Cannolis” will be on hiatus on Saturday, December 24, but will return with a sweeping “year in review” broadcast on Saturday, December 31—focusing on the major stories of 2022 in the areas of government, justice, courts, and the Rule of Law in America.
