UPDATE #2: So … who is the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York?

UncleScoopy

Attorney General William P. Barr will nominate Jay Clayton to serve as the new U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

There is a criminal investigation into Deutsche Bank currently occurring in SDNY. Deutsche Bank is Trump’s principal lender and possesses all of his financial data. Jay Clayton counted Deutsche Bank as a client and defended them in a massive money laundering scandal.

There is also an ongoing criminal investigation into Rudy Giuliani, which will presumably disappear when a Trump sycophant takes over the office.

So … usual corrupt shenanigans.

Except for one thing. The current guy did not actually step down!

So … usual chaos.

UPDATE:

UPDATE #2:

Berman has cleaned out his desk. Barr and Berman seem to have reached a compromise. Berman’s trusted deputy will continue in the US Attorney position until the Senate can confirm a replacement. I assume the Democrats will delay the confirmation of Jay Clayton as long as possible

18 thoughts on “UPDATE #2: So … who is the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York?”

  1. Update to the update…Berman has resigned and Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

    1. Uncle Scoopy said: “Barr and Berman seem to have reached a compromise. ”
      Oh, crap, are we still at the stage when we are taking Trump or Barr’s word about ANYTHING? That means it is still 1938 in Hitler terms. I had hoped we were further (farther?) down the road than that.

      1. Technically “Further On Up the Road” is correct. See Medwick, Bland, Clapton, et. al.

  2. In my life I have never voted for a Democrat (I am now in my early 50s). I didn’t for for the Trumpkin because I couldn’t bring myself to do it – so I wrote in a name. This election I have already decided that I will be voting straight Democrat ticket – I recognize nothing in this party.

    1. The Republican Party has changed out of all recognition from the days of Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, and even Reagan. My explanation is that the billionaires bought it, and since it was not going to try and represent the interests of a majority of Americans, it had to pander to racists, homophobes, “Christians” who use their religion as a reason to hate others, workers who blame job losses on immigrants instead of trade policies, and so on – but maybe that is a dogma I have come to believe just as conservatives believe theirs. I wish I knew.

      All I know is that the GOP changed, and it changed right out from under me.

      1. it never changed it always been for the rich maybe in those years six figure income or more Reagan who the Republicans thought was so great began the removal of all deductions on the income tax returns and don’t get me started on making CEO’s more powerful taking employee rights.Remember Trump was a Democrat and if I remember right so was Reagan at first now I am glad Trump is destroying Republican Party

        1. Reagan capitalized on the big boom of technology and the personal computer in the 80s. And Clinton did likewise in the 90s with the ‘dot.com’ era.

          This is one of the very few scenarios where Reagan’s ‘voodoo economics’ AKA trickle down theory could work, but has a much higher long term cost in the policies that allow monopolies to control everything and put a tight grip on competitiveness or any sort of entrepreneurship.

          Think about the ‘deregulation’ and capital in the 80s. Apple stole the mouse from Xerox PARC. IBM used off the shelf parts and the Intel processor for its first PC without controlling the rights. Microsoft misleadingly purchased QDOS from a small developer knowing they had a deal with IBM for the OS. VisiCalc was created, but not copyrighted, as the first speadsheet software created that companies like Microsoft built an empire off of along with their purchased operating system.

          The point isn’t whether which companies and individuals were or weren’t smart at the time to play the system available to take others work, or not take it, it’s that it was a different time where this was allowed to explode.

          Imagine trying this today. The first step out the door with a popular product that has even the smallest resemblance to ANYTHING, you’re going to be sued into oblivion through high priced corporate laywers and that can’t defend yourself to that kind of financial setback.

          That’s why the economic policy fails in the end. No corporation plays nice to their origins and says ‘you know, we got this break here, why don’t we open source this software and allow the community to build off of it.’ Nope, once these companies got theirs after the dust is settled, they’re going to use every bit of trickle down theory to hoard the money and oppress small businesses or competitors – not use it to grow like may have been done once at their beginnings.

          1. See Google. They had to drop their “do no evil” slogan because the inherent hypocrisy was just too obvious.

          2. Ironically one of the first employees at Google, Paul Buchheit, who created that phrase left around 2006. And sees the game for what it is and has great insight:

            Buchheit has stated that he believes society has the technology and resources to provide adequate food, housing, education, and healthcare for everyone, using only a fraction of available labor and resources. In his view, this implies it is possible to put an end to wage slavery. Buchheit further stated:

            “I don’t have to work. I choose to work. And I believe everyone deserves the same freedom I have. If done right, it’s also economically superior, meaning we will all have more wealth. We often talk about how brilliant or visionary Steve Jobs was, but there are probably millions of people just as brilliant as he was. The difference is they likely didn’t grow up with great parents, amazing teachers, and an environment where innovation was the norm. Also they didn’t live down the street from Steve Wozniak. Economically, we don’t need more jobs. We need more Steve Jobs. When we set everyone free, we enable the outliers everywhere. The result will be an unprecedented boom in human creativity and ingenuity.”

  4. It worries me that Barr is pulling this kind of thing this close to the election. Does he thinks Trump has a reasonable chance of winning, and actions like this will help Trump, or does Barr think the election is not going to matter?

    As usual when I think this way, the answer is probably “none of the above”. But it is still awesome in its blatant, barefaced corruption, and I still find that worrying.

    What kind of future does Barr think he has if the Republicans lose the Presidency and the Senate?

      1. Oh, terrific. What am I supposed to do then? Storm the Bastille? I am too old and out of shape. I don’t even know where it is! But what else can I do? Stay at home? I have it on good authority that the revolution will NOT be televised.

        Jeebus. 50 years ago I would have found this exciting. Now I dread it. But there has been too much inaction on the part of people like me already.

        1. Encourage the young people you know to become active, for one. Their past apathy has been alarming.

  5. Wha??? The shady shit always occurs on Fridays, preferably as late as possible.

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