“Louisiana prosecutors accuse Margaret Carpenter, 55, of affecting a criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs. They also indicted her company, Nightingale Medical. Carpenter faces one to five years in prison and a $5,000 to $50,000 fine if convicted of violating a 2022 Louisiana law that bans abortion.“
new york has shield laws against this kind of ■■■■■
doctors are allowed to prescribe legal drugs to patients
without fear of being indicted by a backwards state such as Louisiana.
New York declares people felons for paying for non-disclosure statements with intent to do any of several things that the jury doesn’t agree upon.
Tough that you don’t like Louisiana laws.
It wasn’t Trump. Trump was convicted of felonious falsification of business records for laundering money through his business to hide another crime (in this case Cohen’s). He wasn’t convicted for having an NDA.
Nope. There were three permisable purposes and the jury didn’t have to agree on which one applied.
Money laundering is when you hide money that was earned illegally. That has nothing to do,with the case. NDAs are legal.
Correct. The jury had to be unamimous (100%) that Trump committed the conspiracy and actual business fraud. The jury IS NOT REQUIRED to agree as to the motivation for the crime.
If a husband murders his wife, the jury does not have to agree that the motive for the murder was (a) she was having an affair with the pool girl, or (b) he wanted the $5,000,000 insurance payout. They just have to agree on the crime, not the motive.
Correct. The money was laundered through the business because as part of the fraud and conspiracy (a) it was not a business expense, (b) false invoices were submitted for a retainer that didn’t exist and for services that were not performed, (c) the payments were not for reimbursement of expenses, they were billed as services (income).
Of course NDA’s are legal. And if they had conducted the legal affairs legally there would have been no crimes.
Cohen and Trump WERE NOT charged with having an NDA, they were charged with Federal Campaign Fraud (Cohen) and State Falsification of Business Records (Trump) because they paid for the NDA in an illegal manner.
Can a state ban a drug that the FDA has found safe? Federal preemption would seem to say no. But what if the sole purpose of that drug is to perform an act (abortion) that the Supreme Court has ruled is under state control?
I’m not sure there is a clear answer till the court rules.
Trump was charged with making false entries (that were not false) in a business ledger (that was not a business ledger) to cover up a state campaign crime that could not possibly have been a crime when the entries were made.
