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lauraannegilman:

s-leary:

s-leary:

The best part of this Avenatti-Cohen thing–

Let me back up. If you were busy on Tuesday, you missed Some Shit™ going down. Michael Avenatti, Stormy
Daniels’s lawyer, actually knows how to lawyer. He pulled on the thread
of the LLC that was used to pay her off and unraveled a whole flying
carpet of Russian donations and US corporate bribery to the same account.

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(John Rogers on Twitter, a national treasure)

And the current theory is that Avenatti got specifics on this via leaks from the Treasury Department’s FinCEN division, which collects Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) on bank accounts that have weird transactions. His information is good; it was very shortly backed up by the New York Times, Washington Post, etc., etc.

– okay, so the best part of this is that Robert Mueller absolutely, without question, has whatever FinCEN has on Cohen, Trump, and the whole gang. He has more than Avenatti does, and he’s had it for months. A huge portion of his team are financial crimes experts. There’s no way FinCEN wasn’t one of their first stops. And it gives me great joy to picture their interaction:

Mueller, strolling into FinCEN with Starbucks: Hey, guys, how’s it going? Listen, do you have any SARs on… all these assholes?

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FinCEN: Mmm-hmm.

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Mueller: Yes. I will take all the deep fried goods involving these people.

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FinCEN, snapping its collective gum: Yeah, lemme run you some copies. One sec.

So the next time the Trump administration keeps you up at night, I want you to close your eyes and envision the number of industrial-size toner cartridges that have given their lives in service to Mr. Mueller’s investigation. Look at the size of that pile. Just look at it. It’s so beautiful. I think of all those depleted black plastic cylinders, and I smile.

LOL, Avenatti is not quitting anytime soon.

Remember that wacky period before the inauguration when C-SPAN had cameras in the lobby of Trump Tower? Avenatti does.

And now Slate is On It™.

We’re gonna need a bigger popcorn bucket.

As an American living through this period of to-be-history, I alternate between hysterical laughter and hysterical sobbing.

As a student of history-as-was, I’m delighted for the students of the future, who are going to have so much WTF in their US history classes…