I had to read from page two on after work today. I’d like to thank you all. This will be a week from hell at work and I’m grateful to have all the links and comments I need in one place. You can all take a bow. Two thumbs up: informative and entertaining. 10/10 would recommend.
LOL, oops, I was trying to post the other one where Hannity actually called her President Clinton here, but now I see I double-posted and it's been handled below.
I was surprised when everyone thought he was going to help the Trump administration by acting as a voice of reason. Anyone that works for that racist POS is a racist POS.
I don't actually know what this means (i.e., what is the "crime-fraud exemption" for lawyers?)
This means Mueller showed that Manafort‘s lawyer did something to further the crime (at least enough to justify allowing this) or believed he can show and therefore nullified privilege and can be questioned about communications with Manafort. It’s a rare exception to attorney-client privilege
I don't actually know what this means (i.e., what is the "crime-fraud exemption" for lawyers?)
Attorneys cannot counsel their clients to commit criminal acts or fraud. And people cannot use their lawyers to further criminal acts or fraud. So if this happened, then any communications the client had with the lawyer are not privileged, per the crime fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege doctrine.
One thing that's important - the attorney-client privilege is not to protect lawyers. It's to protect clients. So the crime fraud exception applies if the client abuses the relationship by using a lawyer for illegitimate purposes, even if the attorney has done nothing wrong and did not know of the client had criminal intent.
For example, let's say there's a client who wants to launder money asks a lawyer to help them set up a new company so they can buy real estate, and they have a discussion about that about his real estate needs. The lawyer has no idea that his client wants to launder money. Won't matter. Client used him to further a criminal scheme, and thus the communications are not privileged.
If the lawyer knows the client had criminal intent and counseled or assisted them with the fraud or crime, then they are on the hook for conspiracy and the underlying acts as well.
Post by Velvetshady on Oct 30, 2017 20:57:43 GMT -5
My favorite FB comment so far today:
Dear neighbors of Kushner, Flynn, Stone, Page, etc... Please dress up as an FBI agent for Halloween, and go trick-or-treating at their homes around 6 am tomorrow morning. Bang really loud on the door too so they can hear you. Take a video of it for me. Thanks