Men accused of using SBA loans for Apple purchases, pardons for Apple-related offenders, and iCloud leads to charges against the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation in this week s Apple Crime Blotter.
The latest in an occasional
AppleInsider series, looking at news from the world of Apple-related crime:
Men charged with using disaster funds to buy iPhones
Two Massachusetts men have been brought up on federal charges alleging they fraudulently obtained disaster loans from the Small Business Administration for a scheme that involved buying large numbers of iPhones for resale.
According to the Department of Justice press release, the two 24-year-olds have been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for the alleged scheme to use stolen identity information of United States citizens to apply for SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans. The funds were allegedly used to open bogus bank accounts, which the government says the two men
Cohen has predicted how the last few weeks of Trump s presidency will play out That s when he ll probably try to drop the pardon power for Jared, Don, Ivanka, Eric, Allen Weisselberg [Trump Organization CFO], Cohen said Monday
He said pardons could produce significant problem for Trump since a person is no longer able to invoke the Fifth Amendment once they receive pardon So all of these people may ultimately be his downfall, Cohen added, simply because they’ll be testifying against him, either for a court or a tribunal
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Trump issues pardons to former cronies and Kushnerâs father
President Donald Trump issued another round of pardons, including Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, and his son-in-lawâs father.
One day after pardoning four Blackwater mercenaries and three corrupt Republican congressmen, President Donald Trump issued another round of pardons, including Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, and his son-in-lawâs father.
Convicted in the Eastern District of Virginia on eight counts of financial crimes, including five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud, and one count of failing to disclose his foreign bank accounts, President Trumpâs former campaign chairman Paul Manafort also pleaded guilty in the D.C. District Court to conspiracy to defraud the United States and witness tampering. On Wednesday, Trump issued a full presidential pardon to Manafort.
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:24 am, December 27th, 2020 - 13 comments
Recently instead of playing golf Donald Trump has been handing out pardons, lots and lots of pardons. So which outstanding members of the American community has he decided to exercise the prerogative of mercy and are there any common features amongst them?
I should start by noting that the constitution gives the POTUS the power to “grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment”. The power is very wide although it applies only to federal crimes.
Amongst those who were pardoned:
Trump’s former campaign chair Paul Manafort who had been convicted of unregistered lobbying, tax fraud, bank fraud and money laundering. In words that can only have come from Trump the White House notes claim that “[a]s a result of blatant prosecutorial overreach, Mr. Manafort has end