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Libby pays his fine

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Anyone worried that Scooter Libby was going to have trouble coming up with the cash to pay the $250,000 fine — the only part of his sentence that remains following President Bush’s appalling commutation of his prison sentence from 30 months to nothing (30 months was too harsh? then why not reduce it?) — can rest easy.  Doesn’t seem to have been a problem.

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  3. Speaking engagements to neocon groups or a book advance.  Just like Ollie North.  What a scam.

    • the money may well have come out of the millions that Fred Thompson & Co. raised for his legal defense fund.  Scooter’s going to be just fine.

      • Bush apologist David Brooks, on All Things Considered, claimed that this fine would exhaust Scooter’s life savings.

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        Personally I doubt that Scooter will be eating at soup kitchens or living in homeless shelters.

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        I would hope that, after that, no one would continue to take David Brooks seriously.

      • Can privately collect donations, they do not have to list names of donors.  Quote at the top of the web page:

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        “Scooter Libby is one of the most capable and talented individuals I have ever known” – Dick Cheney

        • …to the extent that the trustee (the administrator of the trust) has records, all of the records could be subject to a subpoena.  As would the trustee.  And it would be difficult for anyone to believe that a trustee did not recollect who gave umpteen-thousands of dollars to his or her trust.

          • “Your honor, I do not recall…”

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            If Alberto Gonzales can push that lame bluff, whoever runs Scooter’s slush fund can do it, too.

        • but the lower left corner of the image seems to suggest that the worst that he could face is a $45 fine. However, given that this appears to be a cashier’s check, bouncing seems unlikely.

    • I think not.  But nice thought. If it’s not a certified bank check then both the Smoking Gun and BMG are helping identity fraud by publishing the bank account information of Scooter Libby. I don’t care what you think of him, publishing his bank account information is not a good idea.

      • the number of his checking account or providing any information about Scooter.  You can get a bank check anywhere, you don’t need an account there. 

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        Nice mock outrage by the way.

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        The bank check, for the love of god they’ve shown a public document….um, to the public?

        • notice I said its a certified or cashiers check.  If it wasn’t there would be a problem.  If it was a check from his PRIVATE Checking account there would be a problem.  Please re-read what I wrote.  You can do so below, so you don’t even have to hit scroll.

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          seeing as that is a certified bank check  (0.00 / 0)
          I think not.  But nice thought. If it’s not a certified bank check then both the Smoking Gun and BMG are helping identity fraud by publishing the bank account information of Scooter Libby. I don’t care what you think of him, publishing his bank account information is not a good idea.

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          No mock outrage, someone made the statement that it would be nice if the check bounced.  It won’t bounce because it’s a certified or cashiers check, I think of them as the same and use the term interchangeably.

          • are emphatically not the same thing.  A certified check is ordinarily drawn on the account holder’s own account, and the bank has then certified that sufficient funds exist in the account and has segregated those funds until the check is cashed or deposited.  A cashier’s check, in contrast, is drawn directly against the bank; it is signed by bank officers (note that the check reproduced above is not signed by Scooter Libby); and it has nothing to do with the individual’s account.  Note that the check delivered by Libby to the Court says “Cashier’s Check” on the top.

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            So settle down, EaBo.  As usual, you’re way off base.

            • Have been replaced by cashier’s checks, and it has been a long time since I have seen one.  If you try to have your bank certify your check, they’ll just issue a teller’s check.

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              Although you’re right, I find many people use the terms interchangeably.  Because certified checks are now so rare, this isn’t really that much of a mistake.

      • …it was a cashier’s check.  It would be a relatively simple matter to subpoena the records of where the funds deposited into the account came from.

    • Mike Gravel has posted some of this.  It really doesn’t matter.  We’ve got 8 years of Clinton coming up that will be followed by 8 years of (Jeb) Bush.  The Republic is dead, get over it.  You’re no more than a serf, mastered by people that plot together how best to serve themselves.

    • We shouldn’t be too surprised. After all, all these Mossad agents in charge of our country are servants of the Rothschild cause, and the Rothschilds pay all our Presidents and all the other presidents and monarchs of the world. – The loan guarantees enabling the bribes cost nothing anyway – or don’t you know about this little technique? And the Rothschilds are the Fed. as they are all the other National Banks, so – Oh well.

      And Ron Paul says he will dismantle the Fed, does he?  Don’t you know what the name ‘Paul’ indicates?  So he may say, but some hope!

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      Um…does anybody HERE know what the name ‘Paul’ indicates?

  6. From the Newark Star-Ledger:

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    [T]he president spoke of the personal pain Libby has experienced. Bush was fairly immune to that sort of argument while he was governor of Texas. In six years, he denied requests from 152 inmates facing execution. Bush said his standard was: “Is there any doubt about this individual’s guilt or innocence?” Can there be any doubt about Libby’s?

    In Libby’s case, Bush said, he respected the jury’s verdict but decided the 30-month prison sentence was “excessive.”

    We wonder what the families of those 152 inmates put to death think about that.

     

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