As part of the deal, she will serve six years of probation, will be fined $6,000 and will have to write an apology letter to Georgia and its residents. She also agreed to testify truthfully against her co-defendants at future trials.
As much as I want to see the house of cards collapse, that toadies like her get off nearly Scott free is a real miscarriage of justice IMO. She should be serving actual time, and not in a white-collar-resort prison.
The problem is that the actions the state can prove only amount to misdemeanors. That's why RICO is so powerful. Even if you only did misdemeanors, if you were part of the conspiracy then you get lumped in with all the felonies everyone else committed too. The whole point of RICO is to roll up the underlings with the bosses and try to peel off underlings in exchange for cooperation.
By pleaing out, Powell is separating herself from the others and so those felony RICO charges don't apply anymore. All that said, this is all at the discretion of the DA and the judge. If Powell fucks up the terms of her deal she's in for six years of Georgia state prison. At 68 years old, that'd got to be a pretty good motivator for good behavior and cooperation.
I totally get it, and in the grand scheme it makes perfect sense. You let the little fish get off easy in order to secure a conviction on the big fish.
With that being said, I share the feeling of what u/enkers said above. It's disappointing that a lawyer, who damn well should have known better, can engage in a plot to overthrow our democracy and then get off with a slap on the wrist. It doesn't exactly serve as a deterrent for future conspirators, knowing that there are no serious consequences for helping "the bigger fish" commit crimes.
She will be disbarred as well. And, depending on what she has said, she may be extremely exposed to civil lawsuits now.
She always seemed like one of the biggest instigators to me. She drove a lot of the worst rhetoric and made up a lot of pure bullshit. Like you said, as a lawyer she should have been even more aware than her co-defendants how illegal this shit was.
I hope there’s good strategy behind the decision to allow her to plea. If her testimony can directly implicate Trump or others it might be worthwhile. She also might be dumb enough to violate the terms of her plea, in which case you get her confession AND you get to throw the book at her.
Will I get a copy of the apology letter in the mail? Lol
This could have been a real punishment if they made her hand sign a letter to every Georgian over voting age. That's justice. Let her chatgpt the letter. Also make her sign every single one 5 days a week, 8 hours a day until she's done.
As part of the deal, she will serve six years of probation, will be fined $6,000 and will have to write an apology letter to Georgia and its residents. She also recorded a statement for prosecutors and agreed to testify truthfully against her co-defendants at future trials.
Hahahahahaha ReLeAsE tHe KrAcKeN Sidney! ReLeAsE tHe KrAcKeN!
The letter to Georgia seems kinda wild these days considering she could just have chatGPT do it.
Dear fellow citizens of Georgia,
I, Sydney Powell, am writing this letter to extend my deepest apologies for my role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election results. I recognize that my actions have caused significant concern and division, and I take full responsibility for my misguided involvement.
In addition to acknowledging my mistakes, I must also address my association with former President Donald Trump in these efforts. It has become clear to me that President Trump's repeated false claims about the 2020 election results in Georgia and other states contributed to the confusion and distrust that surrounded the election process. I hereby cut all ties with him and distance myself from these false claims.
I want to emphasize that the foundation of our democracy rests on the principles of fair and free elections, and it is the duty of every citizen to honor and protect these principles. My actions in the past were inconsistent with these values, and I deeply regret any harm I may have caused to our nation and its citizens.
I apologize to the American people for any doubts and divisions my actions may have created. It is my sincere hope that we can come together as a nation, putting aside political differences and working towards a stronger, more united democracy that truly reflects the will of the people.
I am committed to learning from this experience and ensuring that such actions are not repeated. I believe in the importance of respecting the will of the voters and the integrity of our electoral system. It is imperative that we move forward with a spirit of unity, transparency, and cooperation.
Once again, I extend my sincerest apologies to the people of our great nation for my involvement in the 2020 election controversy. I hope that, over time, I can regain your trust and contribute to a better future for the United States.
Sincerely,
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Yeah I just imagine her doing the South Park I'm sorry routine.
I became a cringe singularity when I heard her say that good lord women
No need to release the kraken, she's just getting probation not incarceration.
Also wondering if Cheese Burrow is happy or sad that he'll now be on trial alone.
The deal would have allowed Chesebro to avoid prison time by pleading guilty to one felony count of racketeering, the top charge in the indictment, according to the sources.
Kraken pleaded guilty to all misdemeanor crimes. That's a huge difference.
As far as I understand it, Chesebro's plea deal included sentencing under a first time offender program that would automatically expunge the conviction if he completed probation without violations.
Wow what a dumbass. That was a great deal and he's going to eat shit in court.
The fact she didn't plead guilty to any felony charges seems important to me.
Did the DA agree to only misdemeanor charges in order to get her to plead? Chesebro rejected a deal of probation in exchange for a felony guilty plea.
I don't think they care about this one. Her reputation is utterly destroyed, she's broke, and no news organizations would use her as a source for anything.
They got Trump and the rest of his merry band of assholes dead in their sights
They got Trump and the rest of his merry band of assholes dead in their sights
They will get some severe finger-wagging pointed in their direction while they continue trying to dismantle American democracy.
She will also almost assuredly get disbarred once this all wraps up, and also… she’s old lol (within a decade of donnie). She doesn’t have a lot of time left to spend on tramp, especially if she were to catch those federal felonies.
As you said, she’s done.
I can see a book deal in her future. "If I did it 2 - electric boogaloo"
I hope it's because she has some crazy ass documents that were new to the government.
She's so well known as a whack job that her testimony alone doesn't mean much, unless Willis etc are chumps, Powell showed up with hard evidence.
For example, Chesebro argued that one charge against him – conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer – was improper because the Republican electors were, in fact, electors under federal law but never claimed to be Georgia’s certified presidential electors.
is going to save him from a jury, he's fucked.
So let me get this right. He was impersonating a certified presidential elector sent to DC to fraudulently perform the duties of a certified presidential elector, but that's OK because he never said he was a certified presidential elector?
"Sir, you were arrested trying to get access to the bank's safe using an employee badge you found on the ground."
"Yes, but I never said that I was trying to impersonate him, therefore these charges of attempted bank robbery are invalid!"
Is he paying an actual lawyer actual American money for this advice? Because if so, he's getting ripped off.
My (divorce) lawyer constantly reminds me "this is your case, if you want to go with that we'll go with it". I interpret this as "don't be a dumbass", I guess Chesebro took it as an actual offer.
I think that legal theory is intended to prevent the trial from even reaching a jury. This was in a motion to get the case tossed out of state court, citing the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.
Sir, I never said he was the president of the United States, I said be was president of the states. As in our larping group called The States. He really was the president!
Re-leash the kraken!
Time to check rightwing social media and feast on the cope
Tldr?
Pretending they saw through her nonsense from the start
Saying these are just misdemeanour charges so it's all a nothingberger
Seems like there is a major feeling like they've lost and have no hope of winning anything more than state politics for the foreseeable future.
should’ve stuck to gerrymandering, the legal kind of election tampering
She's good the goods. $6000 for trying to steal an election, you don't get off with a slap on the wrist unless you know where some bodies are buried.
I don't normally think of a woman's face as punchable, but man she's got the most punchable looking face I've seen in a while.
Oh my God! What the hell is she doing with her...face?
She doing crazy
Hell of a deal for trying to overturn democracy. But they want the big fat fish more.
I'm very annoyed with the slap on the wrist of a punishment here. How is there no jail time? Unless she has the smoking gun on Trump and turned it over, no fuck, even if she did have that this is unacceptable!
This is how RICO works. The sooner you flip, the better your deal. Also, the more info you give up against the big fish, the better your deal. Powell has the advantage of both flipping early relative to everyone else and being one of the key players in the Big Lie even if she didn't have a lot to do with the fake electors scheme.
I feel you - she’s nuts and drove the clown car in 2020.
But would you rather have DJT and Ghouliani, or Sidney Powell in jail for the remainder of their gross unnatural lives? Direct testimony against the rest of them helps secure convictions.
The MAGAts will turn on her and make her freedom unpleasant regardless, just waiting for a tweet/truth/x/wtfever from dear leader.
It’s ain’t enough but it’s a start, after 7 years of waiting for consequences.
I want them all in jail! Not sure what more one needs then the phone call of him bullying an elected official to change the vote count...
A kraken of harassment is coming. When all is said and down she can go on TV to do an interview for the voting machine folks to get paid.
Is this "the kraken" she was referring to?
In Nelson's voice - Ha ha!
Lol, get fucked.
Hmmm... She may be a better lawyer than I gave her credit for. At the very least she's a better advocate for herself than she was for Trump.
ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyer Sidney Powell pleaded guilty to reduced charges Thursday over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election in Georgia, becoming the second defendant in the sprawling case to reach a deal with prosecutors.
Powell, who was charged alongside Trump and 17 others with violating the state’s anti-racketeering law, entered the plea just a day before jury selection was set to start in her trial.
She was initially charged with racketeering and six other counts as part of a wide-ranging scheme to keep the Republican president in power after he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden.
The acceptance of a plea deal is a remarkable about-face for a lawyer who, perhaps more than anyone else, strenuously pushed baseless conspiracy theories about a stolen election in the face of extensive evidence to the contrary.
A lower-profile defendant in the case, bail bondsman Scott Graham Hall, last month pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor charges.
The indictment says a person who is not named sent an email to a top SullivanStrickler executive and instructed him to send all data copied from Dominion Voting Systems equipment in Coffee County to an unidentified lawyer associated with Powell and the Trump campaign.
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Donald Trump is going to die in custody.
🍿
I still can't bring myself to believe that, Trump never ever actually experiences consequences.
But Giuliani? I believe he's going to prison for sure.
Marge, I was there - the clown is G-I-L-L-T-Y.
And in other news, Popcorn futures are thru the roof.
Did she flip on Trump? That would be amazing.
I'm thinking that if she took the plea deal that she definitely did
Sounds like it.
Same kind of deal that Scott Hall took:
As much as I want to see the house of cards collapse, that toadies like her get off nearly Scott free is a real miscarriage of justice IMO. She should be serving actual time, and not in a white-collar-resort prison.
The problem is that the actions the state can prove only amount to misdemeanors. That's why RICO is so powerful. Even if you only did misdemeanors, if you were part of the conspiracy then you get lumped in with all the felonies everyone else committed too. The whole point of RICO is to roll up the underlings with the bosses and try to peel off underlings in exchange for cooperation.
By pleaing out, Powell is separating herself from the others and so those felony RICO charges don't apply anymore. All that said, this is all at the discretion of the DA and the judge. If Powell fucks up the terms of her deal she's in for six years of Georgia state prison. At 68 years old, that'd got to be a pretty good motivator for good behavior and cooperation.
I totally get it, and in the grand scheme it makes perfect sense. You let the little fish get off easy in order to secure a conviction on the big fish.
With that being said, I share the feeling of what u/enkers said above. It's disappointing that a lawyer, who damn well should have known better, can engage in a plot to overthrow our democracy and then get off with a slap on the wrist. It doesn't exactly serve as a deterrent for future conspirators, knowing that there are no serious consequences for helping "the bigger fish" commit crimes.
She will be disbarred as well. And, depending on what she has said, she may be extremely exposed to civil lawsuits now.
She always seemed like one of the biggest instigators to me. She drove a lot of the worst rhetoric and made up a lot of pure bullshit. Like you said, as a lawyer she should have been even more aware than her co-defendants how illegal this shit was.
I hope there’s good strategy behind the decision to allow her to plea. If her testimony can directly implicate Trump or others it might be worthwhile. She also might be dumb enough to violate the terms of her plea, in which case you get her confession AND you get to throw the book at her.
Will I get a copy of the apology letter in the mail? Lol
This could have been a real punishment if they made her hand sign a letter to every Georgian over voting age. That's justice. Let her chatgpt the letter. Also make her sign every single one 5 days a week, 8 hours a day until she's done.
Hahahahahaha ReLeAsE tHe KrAcKeN Sidney! ReLeAsE tHe KrAcKeN!
The letter to Georgia seems kinda wild these days considering she could just have chatGPT do it.
Dear fellow citizens of Georgia,
I, Sydney Powell, am writing this letter to extend my deepest apologies for my role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election results. I recognize that my actions have caused significant concern and division, and I take full responsibility for my misguided involvement.
In addition to acknowledging my mistakes, I must also address my association with former President Donald Trump in these efforts. It has become clear to me that President Trump's repeated false claims about the 2020 election results in Georgia and other states contributed to the confusion and distrust that surrounded the election process. I hereby cut all ties with him and distance myself from these false claims.
I want to emphasize that the foundation of our democracy rests on the principles of fair and free elections, and it is the duty of every citizen to honor and protect these principles. My actions in the past were inconsistent with these values, and I deeply regret any harm I may have caused to our nation and its citizens.
I apologize to the American people for any doubts and divisions my actions may have created. It is my sincere hope that we can come together as a nation, putting aside political differences and working towards a stronger, more united democracy that truly reflects the will of the people.
I am committed to learning from this experience and ensuring that such actions are not repeated. I believe in the importance of respecting the will of the voters and the integrity of our electoral system. It is imperative that we move forward with a spirit of unity, transparency, and cooperation.
Once again, I extend my sincerest apologies to the people of our great nation for my involvement in the 2020 election controversy. I hope that, over time, I can regain your trust and contribute to a better future for the United States.
Sincerely,
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Yeah I just imagine her doing the South Park I'm sorry routine.
I became a cringe singularity when I heard her say that good lord women
No need to release the kraken, she's just getting probation not incarceration.
Nobody wants to see that, man.
Jack Smith has a new cooperative witness. One that can't take the 5th.
Forget the Kraken, I think Sidney is about to release the Great Old Ones all over the remaining defendants
Found a video feed of the Mar-a-Lago hallway outside Trump's suite
I thought it would be the "Downfall" video, but this works too.
We know Cheez Bro turned down an offer of 3 years probation. I wonder if Kraken got the same offer or if it's only 72% as good as his.
Also wondering if Cheese Burrow is happy or sad that he'll now be on trial alone.
Kraken pleaded guilty to all misdemeanor crimes. That's a huge difference.
As far as I understand it, Chesebro's plea deal included sentencing under a first time offender program that would automatically expunge the conviction if he completed probation without violations.
Wow what a dumbass. That was a great deal and he's going to eat shit in court.
The fact she didn't plead guilty to any felony charges seems important to me.
Did the DA agree to only misdemeanor charges in order to get her to plead? Chesebro rejected a deal of probation in exchange for a felony guilty plea.
I don't think they care about this one. Her reputation is utterly destroyed, she's broke, and no news organizations would use her as a source for anything.
They got Trump and the rest of his merry band of assholes dead in their sights
They will get some severe finger-wagging pointed in their direction while they continue trying to dismantle American democracy.
She will also almost assuredly get disbarred once this all wraps up, and also… she’s old lol (within a decade of donnie). She doesn’t have a lot of time left to spend on tramp, especially if she were to catch those federal felonies.
As you said, she’s done.
I can see a book deal in her future. "If I did it 2 - electric boogaloo"
I hope it's because she has some crazy ass documents that were new to the government.
She's so well known as a whack job that her testimony alone doesn't mean much, unless Willis etc are chumps, Powell showed up with hard evidence.
That’s Guilty! Guilty!! GUILTY!
Just a flashback I've been doing since Nixon. 🤣
There goes that speedy trial. Makes sense now that she did that to angle for a faster plea deal. Saved herself potentially dying in prison. Cheese bro really really should take the plea too https://www.ajc.com/news/judge-rejects-request-to-dismiss-charges-against-chesebro-powell/QO2F5HTS65BBHCVS7W3KU35LEE/
If chesebro thinks that
is going to save him from a jury, he's fucked.
So let me get this right. He was impersonating a certified presidential elector sent to DC to fraudulently perform the duties of a certified presidential elector, but that's OK because he never said he was a certified presidential elector?
"Sir, you were arrested trying to get access to the bank's safe using an employee badge you found on the ground."
"Yes, but I never said that I was trying to impersonate him, therefore these charges of attempted bank robbery are invalid!"
Is he paying an actual lawyer actual American money for this advice? Because if so, he's getting ripped off.
My (divorce) lawyer constantly reminds me "this is your case, if you want to go with that we'll go with it". I interpret this as "don't be a dumbass", I guess Chesebro took it as an actual offer.
I think that legal theory is intended to prevent the trial from even reaching a jury. This was in a motion to get the case tossed out of state court, citing the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.
Sir, I never said he was the president of the United States, I said be was president of the states. As in our larping group called The States. He really was the president!
Re-leash the kraken!
Time to check rightwing social media and feast on the cope
Tldr?
Pretending they saw through her nonsense from the start
Saying these are just misdemeanour charges so it's all a nothingberger
Seems like there is a major feeling like they've lost and have no hope of winning anything more than state politics for the foreseeable future.
should’ve stuck to gerrymandering, the legal kind of election tampering
She's good the goods. $6000 for trying to steal an election, you don't get off with a slap on the wrist unless you know where some bodies are buried.
I don't normally think of a woman's face as punchable, but man she's got the most punchable looking face I've seen in a while.
Oh my God! What the hell is she doing with her...face?
She doing crazy
Hell of a deal for trying to overturn democracy. But they want the
bigfat fish more.I'm very annoyed with the slap on the wrist of a punishment here. How is there no jail time? Unless she has the smoking gun on Trump and turned it over, no fuck, even if she did have that this is unacceptable!
This is how RICO works. The sooner you flip, the better your deal. Also, the more info you give up against the big fish, the better your deal. Powell has the advantage of both flipping early relative to everyone else and being one of the key players in the Big Lie even if she didn't have a lot to do with the fake electors scheme.
I feel you - she’s nuts and drove the clown car in 2020.
But would you rather have DJT and Ghouliani, or Sidney Powell in jail for the remainder of their gross unnatural lives? Direct testimony against the rest of them helps secure convictions.
The MAGAts will turn on her and make her freedom unpleasant regardless, just waiting for a tweet/truth/x/wtfever from dear leader.
It’s ain’t enough but it’s a start, after 7 years of waiting for consequences.
I want them all in jail! Not sure what more one needs then the phone call of him bullying an elected official to change the vote count...
A kraken of harassment is coming. When all is said and down she can go on TV to do an interview for the voting machine folks to get paid.
Is this "the kraken" she was referring to?
In Nelson's voice - Ha ha!
Lol, get fucked.
Hmmm... She may be a better lawyer than I gave her credit for. At the very least she's a better advocate for herself than she was for Trump.
Dominooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
This one wins first post. All others will be removed and directed here! Good job @TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee, I wasn't even AWAKE yet!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyer Sidney Powell pleaded guilty to reduced charges Thursday over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election in Georgia, becoming the second defendant in the sprawling case to reach a deal with prosecutors.
Powell, who was charged alongside Trump and 17 others with violating the state’s anti-racketeering law, entered the plea just a day before jury selection was set to start in her trial.
She was initially charged with racketeering and six other counts as part of a wide-ranging scheme to keep the Republican president in power after he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden.
The acceptance of a plea deal is a remarkable about-face for a lawyer who, perhaps more than anyone else, strenuously pushed baseless conspiracy theories about a stolen election in the face of extensive evidence to the contrary.
A lower-profile defendant in the case, bail bondsman Scott Graham Hall, last month pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor charges.
The indictment says a person who is not named sent an email to a top SullivanStrickler executive and instructed him to send all data copied from Dominion Voting Systems equipment in Coffee County to an unidentified lawyer associated with Powell and the Trump campaign.
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Donald Trump is going to die in custody.
🍿
I still can't bring myself to believe that, Trump never ever actually experiences consequences.
But Giuliani? I believe he's going to prison for sure.
Marge, I was there - the clown is G-I-L-L-T-Y.
And in other news, Popcorn futures are thru the roof.
Glad Sidney is guilty.
Woohoo!
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