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Francisco 2.0

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  1. 1 minute ago, Upgrayedd said:

    I also could have gotten them nothing for a fraction of the cost.  Idiots.

    I'd have entered into a contract with them as well for, oh,  $500 a week.

    But as long as they were willing to pay Cohen $100K per month, then I gotta take that into consideration as well.

  2. 6 minutes ago, Longhorn94 said:

    how is there not cause to terminate the contract when it became clear that cohen couldnt perform the duties required under the contract? if he couldnt deliver, he is in breach and they can terminate the deal. but of course that is not what was going on here. 

    They didn't want to terminate the deal.

    The remaining 11 months of the contract was petty cash for potentially a much larger chunk of influence peddling, profit making, etc.

    The company's spin that they couldn't terminate it was spin from the real story.

  3. 3 minutes ago, triplehorn said:

    After donating not more than a few hundred dollars here or there in previous years, Intrater gave 250K to Trump's Inauguration fund.  You know, that Inauguration that blew the lid off all previous inaugurations in terms of cash contributions exceeding 100M, but were only partially used to pay that polka band that arrived by bus ?  Whatever happened to the rest of that 100M.  It got donated like they said they would, right?

     

    Also, Novartis paid Cohen $1 million for literally...nothing ?

     

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      1 hour ago, Mojo Hand said:

     

     

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/09/novartis-paid-trumps-lawyer-michael-cohen-more-than-1-million-for-work-he-was-unable-to-do-company-says.html

     

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    Novartis paid Trump lawyer Michael Cohen $1.2 million for advice on Obamacare – work he was unable to do

    Drug giant Novartis reveals it paid Trump lawyer Michael Cohen $1.2 million for health-care policy consulting work that he proved "unable" to do.

    Cohen was originally contracted to consult Novartis on health-care policy issues, including ones related to Obamacare.

    Novartis also says it has talked to investigators from special counsel Robert Mueller's team about the payments.

     

  4. Yeah, those who know what I mean in the title.

    Many of you are probably aware of Pinball Arcade, the table emulation app for iPads, XBoxes, pretty much whatever.  The developer (Farsight) announced on May 7th that WMS chose not to renew their license, so effective June 30, you will no longer be able to purchase the following tables.  If you had purchased these tables prior to June 30, you will still be able to download them in the future.

     

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    • The Addams Family
    • Attack from Mars
    • Banzai Run
    • Black Knight
    • Black Knight 2000
    • Black Rose
    • Bram Stoker's Dracula
    • Cactus Canyon
    • Centaur
    • The Champion Pub
    • Creature from the Black Lagoon
    • Cyclone
    • Diner
    • Doctor Who
    • Dr. Dude & HIs Excellent Ray
    • Earthshaker
    • Eight Ball Deluxe
    • Elvira and the Party Monsters
    • F-14 Tomcat
    • Fathom
    • Fireball
    • Firepower
    • Firepower II
    • Fish Tales
    • Fun House
    • The Getaway: High Speed 2
    • Gorgar
    • High Speed
    • Hurricane
    • Indianapolis 500
    • Jack Bot
    • Judge Dredd
    • Junk Yard
    • The Machine: Bride of Pin•Bot
    • Medieval Madness
    • Monster Bash
    • No Fear: Dangerous Sports
    • No Good Gofers
    • Paragon
    • The Party Zone
    • PIN•BOT
    • Red and Ted's Road Show
    • Safe Cracker
    • Scared Stiff
    • Sorcerer
    • Space Shuttle
    • Spanish Eyes
    • Star Trek: The Next Generation
    • Swords Of Fury
    • Tales of the Arabian Nights
    • Taxi
    • Terminator 2: Judgment Day
    • Theatre of Magic
    • Twilight Zone
    • White Water
    • Whirlwind
    • WHO Dunnit
    • Wild Card
    • World Champion Soccer
    • Xenon

     

  5. 3 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

    Yeah ATT straight-up paying 200 large to Trump's personal attorney/bag man while he was president is astonishing. 

    Makes one wonder....how many times in the past has something like this happened.

  6. 1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    How many times did you click the Submit Reply button?

    3 times, apparently.

    Which to me seemed odd the first time I clicked the button.  Nothing happened...so, onward I went.

     

     

     

  7. 9 hours ago, kevwun said:

    So how is Avenatti getting this info?  This isn't something you would get from subpoenas is it?

    Here's a theory:

    https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-this-how-avenatti-found-out

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    I want to shed some light on tonight’s post re: Cohen/Avenatti, specifically this line:

    “They’ve also confirmed the dollar amounts. So while we still don’t know where or how Avenatti got this information he must have had access to one of Cohen’s ledgers, a bank statement or perhaps an investigative document. The details are simply too specific.”

    I work as an Anti-Money Laundering and Bank Secrecy Act Specialist at a financial institution. Every bank/credit union/etc will have someone who’s responsibility it is to examine transactions and file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) with FinCEN, a department of the Treasury. This is what I do.

    Upon reading Avenatti’s document, it’s obvious that he has his hands on (multiple, I think) SARs that have been filed on Cohen. They are structured almost exactly as we write them. The KYC information at the beginning is a huge tipoff. This is something every bank is required to compile when a business account is opened, and it’s what AML staff would refer back to it when examining transactions to see if the account is “behaving” differently than expected. This KYC information would never be included in a bank statement or a ledger. It would only come from a financial institution, and is what is included in SARs narratives to justify their filing. Furthermore, there’s info in the document from multiple banks. Unless Avenatti has people at multiple different banks leaking him info on Cohen (he doesn’t) it comes from a SARs.

    We know from the WSJ that at least one bank has filed a SARs on Cohen:

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-lawyers-payment-to-porn-star-was-reported-as-suspicious-by-bank-1520273701

    I’m pretty gobsmacked that someone would leak SARs to Michael Avenatti, but we live in crazy times. I’ve been trying to think who all would have access, and it’s basically: FinCEN staff, law enforcement who request them, regulators, the bank staff who filed them originally, and possibly independent auditors who come in to make sure banks are filing BSA paperwork properly. My guess would be it’s someone at FinCEN doing it, but I wouldn’t bet a massive amount of money on it.

    I would, however, bet massive amounts of money that Avenatti somehow has his hands on SARs filed on Cohen.

     

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  8. Just now, kevwun said:

    So how is Avenatti getting this info?  This isn't something you would get from subpoenas is it?

    It's probably something hidden in plain sight, and he's sharp enough to know where to look.

  9. 1 minute ago, Ted Dantzler said:

    So the same LLC that Cohen formed to pay off Stormy Daniels was used for multiple other transactions including $500,000 from a Russian Company and $400,000 from a Swiss Pharmaceutical company right before Trump had an unplanned dinner with their CEO? 

    That kind of seems big. 

    The $200,000 from ATT is kinda interesting.

     

    Let's see.  During the campaign, Trump came out against the ATT-DirecTV merger.  

  10. 3 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    The simplest answer is that the Tahoe wing of the GOP has lost control of the party.

    The Tahoe wing really believes they still control the GOP,  and soon enough, things will be back to "normal".

     

     

  11. 2 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

    Has Philly been favored in every game this series? They're -6.5 tonight after being -9 on Saturday. Just devastating. I know it's easy to think "Eh, they're young, they'll be back" but this is going to be a tough one to absorb.

    Yes, and Philly was favored before Game 3 not only by -9, but to win the series as well.

     

     

     

  12. 1 minute ago, Brothahorn said:

    Dickhead Ainge deserves a ton of credit for building a pretty damn good roster.

    If they get to the Finals, I wonder he rethinks continuing to spend all that money on Irving and Heyward. Rozier, Brown and Tatum are a great nucleus.

    Well....they would make pretty decent trade pieces, if all else fails.  

  13. Hmmm. Tonight's lead official:

     

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    Derrick Stafford, the lead official, can be a hot head and has been quick to call technicals. He has been disciplined for getting into a shouting match with former Celtics assistant Lawrence Frank. He is one of the few refs in the league who favors the road teams. Home teams win just 49% of the games he calls. He averages 39 fouls called per game and 50.8% of those are called on the home team. The Celtics are 8-2 in their last 10 games. He called game 7 against the Bucks and they let both teams play without calling a lot of fouls on either team.

     

  14. 1 minute ago, d2o said:

    Agree with most of this.   I do think PHI was over-hyped a bit in part due to the streak at the end of the season.    

    Still, Redick and those other guys have more reg season experience but outside of Bellineil none of them have much deep run playoff experience.    Additionally, they are more periphery guys than say a Horford (wtih a lot of playoff experience)  who has been pretty big for the C's in the playoffs.   He really is a very solid pro who has a big influence on the team.     Heck Illyasova and Bellinelli just got there a couple months ago and aren't really in decision making positions anyway.  

    All that said, it really boils down to BOS having Stephens and PHI not having him.  

    The Celtics have a slight edge in amount of playoff games by player over Philly.  Sure, that number is skewed by a handful of players:

    Playoff games, career by rotation players

    Philly-257 total

    Redick-  95 

    Bellneili-55

    Ilyasova-30

    Johnson-49

    McConnell-7

    Simmons-7

    Saric-7

    Covington-7

    Embiid-7

     

    Boston-279 total

    Morris-13

    Smart-33

    Rozier-31

    Horford-101

    Brown-25

    Tatum-9

    Ojeleye-9

    Baynes-35

    Larkin-11

    Monroe-12

    The Celtics are playing 10 this series, Philly 9 so far.  

    And yeah, Stevens is the difference.  

     

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