But the privileged evidence can be excluded from the court cases of other Mueller targets on the basis that it was illegally obtained or violated attorney-client privilege.
Except that it was Trump's money. Cohen paid it out of what was supposed to be Trump's retainer fees (which Cohen had already spent). The overall charges plus service fees were paid in the normal way through their attorney-client billing procedures.
"After reviewing the campaign's financials for four years, the FEC determined last month that money Edwards' aides collected from wealthy donors Rachel "Bunny" Mellon and Fred Baron were "not campaign contribution[s]," Lora Haggard, Edwards' 2008 chief financial officer, said today." [John Edwards' Hush Money Was Not Illegal, FEC Told Campaign
The FEC has also ruled that hush money is outside of the scope of what campaign funds can be spent on, and therefore outside the scope of what can be considered a campaign contribution.
Trump would be in trouble if he paid using campaign funds, since campaign funds cannot be used for this purpose (and it's impossible to give an in-kind campaign contribution for things that campaign funds aren't allowed to be spent on). Also keep in mind that Stormy Daniels has been blackmailing Trump for hush money since 2011, long before the election.
An example that often comes up is a candidate getting their teeth fixed to help with their campaign. This is "personal use" and even if it happens in the middle of the campaign, campaign funds cannot be spent on it. If someone were to donate money to the candidate to get their teeth fixed, and it was his perfect smile that won the election, it still couldn't be an in-kind contribution.
It appears that Trump paid for Cohen's services through the Trump Organization. According to Alan Dershowitz, this method of payment is perfectly legal, even for something that must be paid with campaign funds (and hush money doesn't even qualify for that).
As usual, the thing that Trump is accused of doing isn't actually illegal in the first place. FEC regulations have a long-standing ban on the "personal use" of campaign funds. Expenses are broken into two categories: those that must be paid using campaign funds and those that cannot be paid using campaign funds. Hush money specifically cannot be paid using campaign funds, even if would help the campaign, and thus, paying hush money cannot be an in-kind campaign contribution, regardless of who pays it or why, since the payment is not for something that the campaign is allowed to spend money on. Trump tweeted as much. Fun fact: paying hush money with campaign funds was one of the articles of Impeachment against Nixon.
Also, the FEC and a Court of Law specifically ruled in the 2012 case of Democrat John Edwards that third parties paying hush money on his behalf cannot be an in-kind campaign contribution. It seems that Mueller wants Congress to re-adjudicate these prior rulings and just make up whatever law its partisan hacks feel like, though this plan only works if the Democrats take the House in November.
You won't be able to keep your smartphone in your pocket for long if it has a 150 C component inside of it. Where does all the energy to heat the battery come from?
I thought that the Linux/Android version of Skype was Microsoft's attempt to move people onto the Windows platform. And then they released the same shitty layout on Windows.
The moon-hoaxers will just say that any new imagery is faked and that instead of 100,000 people keeping a secret perfectly for 50 years, now it's 100,001 people.
It's not the phone companies that keep out any competition; it's the government. The Telecommunications Act keeps out foreign investment and guarantees that Canadians pay twice as much as they should for telecom service. It's the same with all government-protected industries: air travel, banking, dairy.
Your GPS device requires time precision finer than 100ns in order to give accurate readings of your location. Just read the time out of that. (Hint: radio waves travel ~100 feet in 100 ns.)
Google could still goose its numbers by opening product-development centers where the bulk of the employees are some shade of brown. Just give them meaningless work to do, discard it all, and highlight the numbers in their employment reports. But you don't want to mix the diversity hires with actual developers, since that would reduce productivity.
Maybe there's some hidden social upside to saddling unqualified students who are eventually forced to drop out with crushing debt they'll never be able to replay.
Take a population with an average IQ of 100 and mass-import a new population with an average IQ of 85 and what happens to the combined average? It shouldn't take a Doctorate in Mathematics to figure this out.
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But the privileged evidence can be excluded from the court cases of other Mueller targets on the basis that it was illegally obtained or violated attorney-client privilege.
They were discussing paying by cheque ("cash") vs. borrowing the money ("financing"). This is how business people talk.
Except that it was Trump's money. Cohen paid it out of what was supposed to be Trump's retainer fees (which Cohen had already spent). The overall charges plus service fees were paid in the normal way through their attorney-client billing procedures.
"After reviewing the campaign's financials for four years, the FEC determined last month that money Edwards' aides collected from wealthy donors Rachel "Bunny" Mellon and Fred Baron were "not campaign contribution[s]," Lora Haggard, Edwards' 2008 chief financial officer, said today." [John Edwards' Hush Money Was Not Illegal, FEC Told Campaign
The FEC has also ruled that hush money is outside of the scope of what campaign funds can be spent on, and therefore outside the scope of what can be considered a campaign contribution.
Trump would be in trouble if he paid using campaign funds, since campaign funds cannot be used for this purpose (and it's impossible to give an in-kind campaign contribution for things that campaign funds aren't allowed to be spent on). Also keep in mind that Stormy Daniels has been blackmailing Trump for hush money since 2011, long before the election.
An example that often comes up is a candidate getting their teeth fixed to help with their campaign. This is "personal use" and even if it happens in the middle of the campaign, campaign funds cannot be spent on it. If someone were to donate money to the candidate to get their teeth fixed, and it was his perfect smile that won the election, it still couldn't be an in-kind contribution.
It appears that Trump paid for Cohen's services through the Trump Organization. According to Alan Dershowitz, this method of payment is perfectly legal, even for something that must be paid with campaign funds (and hush money doesn't even qualify for that).
As usual, the thing that Trump is accused of doing isn't actually illegal in the first place. FEC regulations have a long-standing ban on the "personal use" of campaign funds. Expenses are broken into two categories: those that must be paid using campaign funds and those that cannot be paid using campaign funds. Hush money specifically cannot be paid using campaign funds, even if would help the campaign, and thus, paying hush money cannot be an in-kind campaign contribution, regardless of who pays it or why, since the payment is not for something that the campaign is allowed to spend money on. Trump tweeted as much. Fun fact: paying hush money with campaign funds was one of the articles of Impeachment against Nixon.
Also, the FEC and a Court of Law specifically ruled in the 2012 case of Democrat John Edwards that third parties paying hush money on his behalf cannot be an in-kind campaign contribution. It seems that Mueller wants Congress to re-adjudicate these prior rulings and just make up whatever law its partisan hacks feel like, though this plan only works if the Democrats take the House in November.
You won't be able to keep your smartphone in your pocket for long if it has a 150 C component inside of it. Where does all the energy to heat the battery come from?
How many tons of cargo does the Zephyr carry?
I thought that the Linux/Android version of Skype was Microsoft's attempt to move people onto the Windows platform. And then they released the same shitty layout on Windows.
The moon-hoaxers will just say that any new imagery is faked and that instead of 100,000 people keeping a secret perfectly for 50 years, now it's 100,001 people.
It's not the phone companies that keep out any competition; it's the government. The Telecommunications Act keeps out foreign investment and guarantees that Canadians pay twice as much as they should for telecom service. It's the same with all government-protected industries: air travel, banking, dairy.
Your GPS device requires time precision finer than 100ns in order to give accurate readings of your location. Just read the time out of that. (Hint: radio waves travel ~100 feet in 100 ns.)
Why do you want hackers to control your house?
No matter how hard they scrape at the bottom of the barrel, there just isn't much there. One step forward, two steps back.
Google could still goose its numbers by opening product-development centers where the bulk of the employees are some shade of brown. Just give them meaningless work to do, discard it all, and highlight the numbers in their employment reports. But you don't want to mix the diversity hires with actual developers, since that would reduce productivity.
97% of all combat deaths are male. We should send only women into combat zones until we achieve a 50-50 balance.
Maybe there's some hidden social upside to saddling unqualified students who are eventually forced to drop out with crushing debt they'll never be able to replay.
Poe's Law applies here. College is largely about passing academic tests, or at least it was before the #ReeeeeeToo era.
It's a lack of pirates in full regalia that's caused this. Just look at the correlation!
Take a population with an average IQ of 100 and mass-import a new population with an average IQ of 85 and what happens to the combined average? It shouldn't take a Doctorate in Mathematics to figure this out.
To clarify, you're saying that failing to burden your children with a dead language is a BAD thing, right?
If anything kills plants dead, it's CO2!
As with choosing to juggle chainsaws, when you finally go bankrupt from needless medical bills, taxpayers are left to pay for your sorry ass.
95% of the plastic in the oceans comes from Africa and Asia.