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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • Two of Trump’s experts in particular, Jason Flemmons and Eli Bartov, argued that valuations are inherently subjective, and Engoron sharply criticized their testimony exculpating Trump, his family members and business associates of wrongdoing.

    “Bartov is a tenured professor, but all that his testimony proves is that for a million or so dollars, some experts will say whatever you want them to say,” Engoron wrote.

    A research professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Bartov conceded that he billed nearly $877,500 to Trump for his testimony, and he said that money came from the Trump Organization and Save America PAC, the former president’s primary fundraising vehicle.

    But Engoron said that Bartov “lost all credibility” by claiming Trump’s financial statements were accurate in every respect, even though a pre-trial ruling established the “numerous obvious errors” that they had.

    This shit is the exact problem with our adversarial expert witness system. This should not happen in a court.


  • It wasn’t clear where the suspects would serve their time, if the convictions are upheld on appeal. The Vatican has a jail, but Torzi’s whereabouts weren’t immediately known and it wasn’t clear how or whether other countries would extradite the defendants to serve any sentence.

    I honestly wonder what the Vatican city jail would be like for people serving a sentence like this. My first thought on 5.5 years is “where the hell are they going to put him.”

    Edit:
    Per wikipedia

    The Vatican has no prison system, apart from a few cells for pre-trial detention.[10] People sentenced to imprisonment by the Vatican serve time in Italian prisons, with costs covered by the Vatican.[11]

    I’m surprised Italy will house prisoners found guilty of violating canon law.

    Edit 2: It’s part of the lateran treaty, which is as good as a constitutional document for Italy


  • I’m sometimes fine and sometimes flabbergasted with this german response. Can anyone tell me if they teach about the germans killing roma people in concentration camps as they found them? The murder was mostly about one group of people, but there are things you can learn from other minorities being persecuted.

    I’m reminded of stories of muslim students resonating with jewish victims when visiting holocaust memorials, and being swiftly reprimanded for it by their white teachers. Because jews were the victims, muslims were not.

    I’m sometimes fine with it because, well, at least nobody in Germany is shooting fire extinguishers at menorahs like in Poland.