A Million-Dollar Pardon Offer at the Trump Hotel Peter Stone
Updated on February 10, 2021 at 6:16 p.m. ET
Soon after the November election, a business colleague of Donald Trump’s close ally Corey Lewandowski offered a whistleblower and convicted ex-banker an expensive deal: In exchange for a $300,000 fee up front plus another $1 million if successful the two men would push the then-president for a pardon, according to the ex-banker and an associate who heard the pitch.
Brad Birkenfeld, whose exposure of tax-evasion schemes yielded billions of dollars for U.S. coffers, told me he received this offer in person from Lewandowski’s colleague Jason Osborne. In a later phone call with a second Birkenfeld associate, Lewandowski, Trump’s former campaign manager, upped the initial fee to $500,000 and boasted that he was meeting with Trump the next day to discuss pardons, Birkenfeld told me. Birkenfeld, who said he rejected both offers as “shakedowns,” tried other
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Harvard’s Counter Teach-In, 50 Years Later
How a student disruption prefigured the extremism of today’s college campuses
Fifty years ago, some friends and I had the audacity to sponsor what we called the “Counter Teach-In: An Alternative View.” It took place at Harvard University on March 26, 1971, and argued in favor of American involvement in the Vietnam War a position roughly as outrageous then on campus as arguing in universities now that Israel should defeat the Palestinians.
Opponents of the war disrupted the event. In doing so, they took the first step toward the cancel culture that has overtaken campus life, with faculty and students alike now being investigated by star chambers before being fired or expelled for the sin of holding the wrong views. Similarly, the strong words and weak actions of Harvard’s leadership foreshadowed cowardly conduct of university administrators who speak bravely but act with pusillanimity.
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Joel Anderson was hoping to join the San Diego County Board of Supervisors years before he did.
Since he was sworn in on Jan. 4, it seems as though he’s been making up for lost time.
The longtime East County Republican has launched several initiatives, held a handful of news conferences and issued a flurry of press releases.
He has teamed up with members of the board’s Democratic majority when they have shared matters of concern, yet has voted opposite them when they don’t.
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None of that should come as a surprise. He may be a freshman at the county, but Anderson is a seasoned public official who has served at the most local of levels, such as on the Padre Dam Municipal Water District board, and in the state Legislature, as a member of the Assembly and Senate over a dozen years.
President Biden’s controversial nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Neera Tanden, is currently under consideration by the Senate. Though Biden’s nominees thus far have been confirmed