The subject of the complaint is Trump's man in Albany: John Sarcone, who is now targeting the New York AG who won a half-billion dollar verdict against his boss.
None of this is surprising. I'm happy you brought this to our attention. This sort of behavior from the orange menace regime is typical of a king/dicktator. Things are going to get way worse until this regime is removed from office.
Mike, you’re right man this isn’t surprising. But here’s the thing… we keep treating “not surprising” like it means “not dangerous,” and that’s how these guys get away with this mess.
What MeidasTouch just laid out isn’t just the orange menace acting like a king/dicktator…it’s him quietly rewiring the justice system with handpicked loyalists who couldn’t get Senate or judicial approval if their lives depended on it. We’re talking Alina Habba in Jersey, John Sarcone in New York, people whose résumés read like, “Will prosecute enemies, will travel.”
And Sarcone? Man’s supposed to be the top cop for his district, and he’s racking up bar complaints like he’s trying to earn a punch card. The only “special” in “special attorney” here is the kind you say when your cousin brings store-brand soda to the cookout.
So yeah, it’s going to get worse but the worse isn’t just loud, it’s structural. That’s why this reporting matters. Props to Meidas for digging in, and if you want to see how this same playbook has been run before and how it ends then I’ve been mapping it out here: www.xplisset.com
You articulated that perfectly! Accurate reporting is vital in the fight against fascism and must be recognized. We cannot let the regime’s actions become normalized.
L James would make one hell of a U S Attorney General I think. I agree with Trump and his corrupt Attorneys not being seated. They must be take out of off. But first we must work together to remove TRUMP. WE CANT ALLOW HIS CRAP TO GO UNNOTICED LIKE IT JUST TRUMP NO WE HAVE TO WATCH EVERY, and all his moves. Thats not all. EVERY SINGLE STATE THAT CHOSES TO CHEAT/GERRYMANDER THEIR DISTRICTS BLUE STATES MUST DOUBLE DOWN ON THEM. TRUMP WILL DO ANYTHING TO REMOVE JASMINE CROCKETT HE HATES HER LIKE HARRIS AND PELOSI. EVER WONDER WHY? THEIR SMART THAN TRUMP WILL EVER BE HE HATES IT.
SO FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE CORRUPTION IN TEXAS NEEDS EXPOSED ITS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS. SORRY I GOT OFF TOPIC. I GET SO ANGRY 😡
Part of this story underlines the importance of still having local newspapers whose reporters know their communities. "The Albany Times Union noticed a remarkable detail in Sarcone’s sworn deposition to the sheriff’s office about his encounter with Morales-Garcia: an address, which reporters visited only to find a boarded up house." The TU didn't disclose the specific address, stating that they refrained from doing so because Sarcone said he intends to live there, but the reporter apparently knew Albany's neighborhoods well enough to question whether the address was where a U.S. Attorney would be likely to live. Additional detail in this story: https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/u-s-attorney-albany-lists-boarded-up-building-20386848.php
Oh, Susan - thank you so much for the link, which I put into the category of "If you didn't laugh, you'd cry. . ."!
Some of the quotes in it are a total hoot - the "builder" Capone - sorry, Sarcone, is using, Steve Sabba on being pressed to provide photos of the "renovations" :
"I hope you are not attempting to use this as a smear campaign against John whose entire family I know well (they are very honorable people) as that would greatly tarnish (the Times Union’s) reputation and reduce it to the likes of a tabloid,” Sabba wrote in an email on Tuesday, just hours after offering to send the photos. “I KNOW MANY, MANY PEOPLE AT FOX AND SUCH ACTION WOULD INDUCE ME TO PEN AN OP-ED IN THE NEW YORK POST (my caps) noting how this 'hit piece' seemingly superseded actual news, considering all that is currently transpiring in New York, in America and worldwide, a viewpoint that would rival even the biased trash seen on The View. Please do not place me in a position to feel compelled to resort to any of this; we, as humans, are better that that,” he added.
Now, this is a talented man - tax lawyer, builder, writer for the NY Post! Nice to know he knocks around with such "honorable" people - I know "honor " is a big thing in some New York families. . .
Talk about "Tell me what you are without telling me what you are."
Of course Sarcone has engaged in illegal activity...no one who is honest and upholds the rule of law would have anything to do with trump (I guess that includes the entire GOP Congress)
Oh isn't it rich when a Rump sycophant states that anything is moral turpitude, considering that they and the Rapepublican party believes the raping of children is nothing that deserves punishment or even investigation. What is wrong with these people? 😡
The GOP Congress most likely think Trump will pardon them when they are sentenced. Before the end of his second term ends, Trump will be living in a home for people suffering from Dementia. Most likely won't even remember his family members.
Ah yes.. Sarcone.. he’s the one that the judges in Albany all agreed to decline his bid to permanently appoint him to be the US Attorney, but trumps DOJ overrode them and installed him anyway..he’s a fucking moron!
Fascism lovers, aka the former GOP, never fail to live down to my expectations. Is it genetic that they are all so cookie-cutter identical? Rhetorical.
I learned today from Stuart Stevens that the reason Democrats allegedly have such difficulty "messaging" is because Democratic voters and Independents all have many complex ideologies, wants, needs, and aspirations. The MAGA do not. One message fits all MAGA while Democrats want to know everything.
I had no idea the gulf between the so-called conservatives and we who give a shit is such a chasm. My bad for expecting more than MAGA has capability to provide.
I am interested to see if this SCOTUS favors the powers of an autocrat over the powers of their courts. This SCOTUS seems on the dangerous edge of making themselves 'unimportant'.
All 6 of the Supreme Court Justices should also be deported and forfeit their retirement. For not ruling according to the Constitution. The 3 the Mitch McConnell chose for Trump to put on the Supreme Court lied under oath about not overturning abortion rights. They all basically said, abortion is a done deal it will not be overturned.
Ksvanaugh, "Precedent on precedent" I'll never forget his exact words during senate hearings for his confirmation, "Roe v Wade is Precedent on precedent." Amy Comey Barret, she hedged, at least she was a bit more honest, but Kavanaugh is a straight up liar.
Just like he lied about raping the woman in college. A lot of women sent letters to Dianne Finestein and she didn't give them to anyone. She had already started having symptoms of Dementia. I remember her giving Lindsay Graham a hug when he was confirmed. The woman who testified about being raped is married to the brother of a gentleman at my church. His wife looked terrified standing next to him in the court.
I have to admit that Roe v Wade was weak law. It SHOULD have been based on the 13th Amendment. Women (in certain red states) are held in "Forced Servitude" to the fetus, forced to provide it with life support from her own body, at significant risk of health, physical and emotional (Post partum depression is very real and dangerous) and significant impact on her future, her education and career due to the very real burden of carrying a fetus to delivery. We refer to the process of delivery with the word "Labor" for a reason, and the pain levels experienced are intense. Roughly three women a day die in childbirth, so to indicate there is no risk to the woman (or girl) is absurd.
While we should honor the choice of a woman to bring a child into this world, that is in part a recognition of the sacrifice, the risk she takes willingly, but these certain Red States take that choice from her, treating her as less valuable than a piece of Life support equipment in a hospital. They even came up with the bogus argument that once the fetus has reached to stage of being "Viable" it was 'obvious' she should no longer have any choice at all in the matter. This concept was enforced law under Roe v Wade in MANY states. Consider what "Viable" meant: That the Fetus could 'potentially' survive outside the womb at that stage. This meant she was no longer essential to the process, they just figured she was the cheapest, most convenient incubator available... Or perhaps they decided they could not FORCE a surgery upon her to remove the fetus and transfer to an incubator, while forcing her to undergo essentially an equivalent process to surgery (and sometimes resulting in surgery) of childbirth.
Our laws do not allow the government to force you to keep dear old grandma on life support, but they allowed the government to force a woman to provide life support.
It is much worse, much uglier than this when you consider rape and underage girls who had to have been raped, per the law, and the facts relating to rape being grossly under-reported for a reason... the fact that the primary objection to abortion being religiously based...
Freedoms are not freedoms if they are limited by 'what makes people feel uncomfortable'. You know it is a real freedom when most people object to the person being able to do it, such as Nazis pushing their hateful ideology at an event in the park. Just because people are squeamish about eye surgery does not mean we outlaw it. Just because we make assumptions and do not understand the reasons a woman decides to have an abortion does not mean it is our decision to outlaw her choice in the matter of what to do with her body.
Let us say a person had a rare medical problem that required a bone marrow transplant from a donor that genetically matched, and the only one that could be found was the identical twin of the patient, could THAT adult be forced to undergo surgery to provide that bone marrow, when it is reasonably less life altering, medically risk than a woman carrying and delivering a child? What if the one needing saving was a very beautiful young white girl and the only matching donor was an ugly older black man... Could we force him then? Yes, babies are 'cute' and we are genetically programmed to protect babies, but that does not make it our choice.
Roe v. Wade was a court ruling, not "law". And it was augmented by Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which greatly strengthened the legal argument. And however "weak" it was, Dobbs was vastly weaker. The complaint that Roe v. Wade was "weak" is an absurd red herring.
Please read ALL of my message. Not sure you got to the part where I say we need to (and CAN) do BETTER in protecting women's rights over their own body.
It was weak because it did not declare an absolute right based on the constitution. It leaned on 'privacy' which governments violate all the time. It leaned on confidentiality of a patient and doctor, which has obviously been breached. It was weak because it was acknowledged to have 'limits' essentially based on what the public was 'comfortable' with. Hence the ability to outlaw abortions after a certain number of weeks which many states still do.
Of course Dobbs was a bogus ruling (they have made so very many), based upon the various Justices own statements in their confirmation hearings. My argument is that if we just LOOK at the constitution we can see for ourselves this should be an ABSOLUTE right to an abortion, but apparently that makes people uncomfortable or something. We got so programmed to defend Roe v Wade and the Democratic politicians are promising to return us to Roe v Wade when we should be recognizing that Roe v Wade was WEAK in the protections it gave women to have control over their own bodies and we can do better. READ the 13th amendment. Research what "Involuntary Servitude" means. There is no wriggle room on that right. All we need to do is acknowledge that women are people too, and preventing an abortion is forcing servitude of the woman to the fetus.
The religious will still claim it is murder, but they will always say that. The constitution is clear in that it only declares rights to those who are 'born'. many of the religious, if you get them to be honest, will declare even preventing a pregnancy is equivalent to murder, which is just silly and wrong, so WHY settle for a 'right' that is forever going to be whittled away at, as Roe v Wade was for decades?
What needs to happen is for when a case is brought before the Supreme Court and its 6 corrupt justices’ ruling is considered illegal according to the Constitution the plaintiffs should just say screw this ruling. No one else in this regime and especially the Felon don’t follow the laws and amendments set forth in the Constitution. He disregards laws that were enacted by past Congressional bodies, overrides duties of the other branches of our government. What are they going to do??? Throw the bunch of them in jail?
None of this is surprising. I'm happy you brought this to our attention. This sort of behavior from the orange menace regime is typical of a king/dicktator. Things are going to get way worse until this regime is removed from office.
Mike, you’re right man this isn’t surprising. But here’s the thing… we keep treating “not surprising” like it means “not dangerous,” and that’s how these guys get away with this mess.
What MeidasTouch just laid out isn’t just the orange menace acting like a king/dicktator…it’s him quietly rewiring the justice system with handpicked loyalists who couldn’t get Senate or judicial approval if their lives depended on it. We’re talking Alina Habba in Jersey, John Sarcone in New York, people whose résumés read like, “Will prosecute enemies, will travel.”
And Sarcone? Man’s supposed to be the top cop for his district, and he’s racking up bar complaints like he’s trying to earn a punch card. The only “special” in “special attorney” here is the kind you say when your cousin brings store-brand soda to the cookout.
So yeah, it’s going to get worse but the worse isn’t just loud, it’s structural. That’s why this reporting matters. Props to Meidas for digging in, and if you want to see how this same playbook has been run before and how it ends then I’ve been mapping it out here: www.xplisset.com
Well said!!
ANOTHER SPAMMER!
project 2025
they will rich the people poor like russia
You articulated that perfectly! Accurate reporting is vital in the fight against fascism and must be recognized. We cannot let the regime’s actions become normalized.
I don't think these ppl want to take on Letitia James! She is NOT a pushover!!
They are going to fafo soon. She's ready for this criminal enterprise.
Especially with his background
L James would make one hell of a U S Attorney General I think. I agree with Trump and his corrupt Attorneys not being seated. They must be take out of off. But first we must work together to remove TRUMP. WE CANT ALLOW HIS CRAP TO GO UNNOTICED LIKE IT JUST TRUMP NO WE HAVE TO WATCH EVERY, and all his moves. Thats not all. EVERY SINGLE STATE THAT CHOSES TO CHEAT/GERRYMANDER THEIR DISTRICTS BLUE STATES MUST DOUBLE DOWN ON THEM. TRUMP WILL DO ANYTHING TO REMOVE JASMINE CROCKETT HE HATES HER LIKE HARRIS AND PELOSI. EVER WONDER WHY? THEIR SMART THAN TRUMP WILL EVER BE HE HATES IT.
SO FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE CORRUPTION IN TEXAS NEEDS EXPOSED ITS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS. SORRY I GOT OFF TOPIC. I GET SO ANGRY 😡
Noooo! They will throw everything at Trump!!
All of those traitors need to be disbarred by blue states and have their degrees revoked too.
Their degrees can't be confiscated but they can be disbarred! And have their licenses revoked!
Excellent reporting!
Part of this story underlines the importance of still having local newspapers whose reporters know their communities. "The Albany Times Union noticed a remarkable detail in Sarcone’s sworn deposition to the sheriff’s office about his encounter with Morales-Garcia: an address, which reporters visited only to find a boarded up house." The TU didn't disclose the specific address, stating that they refrained from doing so because Sarcone said he intends to live there, but the reporter apparently knew Albany's neighborhoods well enough to question whether the address was where a U.S. Attorney would be likely to live. Additional detail in this story: https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/u-s-attorney-albany-lists-boarded-up-building-20386848.php
Oh, Susan - thank you so much for the link, which I put into the category of "If you didn't laugh, you'd cry. . ."!
Some of the quotes in it are a total hoot - the "builder" Capone - sorry, Sarcone, is using, Steve Sabba on being pressed to provide photos of the "renovations" :
"I hope you are not attempting to use this as a smear campaign against John whose entire family I know well (they are very honorable people) as that would greatly tarnish (the Times Union’s) reputation and reduce it to the likes of a tabloid,” Sabba wrote in an email on Tuesday, just hours after offering to send the photos. “I KNOW MANY, MANY PEOPLE AT FOX AND SUCH ACTION WOULD INDUCE ME TO PEN AN OP-ED IN THE NEW YORK POST (my caps) noting how this 'hit piece' seemingly superseded actual news, considering all that is currently transpiring in New York, in America and worldwide, a viewpoint that would rival even the biased trash seen on The View. Please do not place me in a position to feel compelled to resort to any of this; we, as humans, are better that that,” he added.
Now, this is a talented man - tax lawyer, builder, writer for the NY Post! Nice to know he knocks around with such "honorable" people - I know "honor " is a big thing in some New York families. . .
Talk about "Tell me what you are without telling me what you are."
Of course Sarcone has engaged in illegal activity...no one who is honest and upholds the rule of law would have anything to do with trump (I guess that includes the entire GOP Congress)
The GOP Congress should be removed from their positions when this false is finally over.
Oh isn't it rich when a Rump sycophant states that anything is moral turpitude, considering that they and the Rapepublican party believes the raping of children is nothing that deserves punishment or even investigation. What is wrong with these people? 😡
Frankly, everything is wrong with this band or horrors.
So sick of them ignoring and breaking the law, and no one stopping them.
The GOP Congress most likely think Trump will pardon them when they are sentenced. Before the end of his second term ends, Trump will be living in a home for people suffering from Dementia. Most likely won't even remember his family members.
They'll probably not visit him either.
Good comment Sabra.
Because THEY are the law now.
It's sickening!
The only thing we have now is bar complaints and also if they break State Laws.
Ah yes.. Sarcone.. he’s the one that the judges in Albany all agreed to decline his bid to permanently appoint him to be the US Attorney, but trumps DOJ overrode them and installed him anyway..he’s a fucking moron!
He fits the party as a moron.
THIS STORY IS APPALLING AND ANOTHER TRUMP PRICK
Fascism lovers, aka the former GOP, never fail to live down to my expectations. Is it genetic that they are all so cookie-cutter identical? Rhetorical.
I learned today from Stuart Stevens that the reason Democrats allegedly have such difficulty "messaging" is because Democratic voters and Independents all have many complex ideologies, wants, needs, and aspirations. The MAGA do not. One message fits all MAGA while Democrats want to know everything.
I had no idea the gulf between the so-called conservatives and we who give a shit is such a chasm. My bad for expecting more than MAGA has capability to provide.
They are so lawless. I almost expect them to create new laws just so they can break them.
Actually, tRUMP does this all the time to distract from the Epstein Files.
Who needs graphic novels?
Wait. Those are serious.
I am interested to see if this SCOTUS favors the powers of an autocrat over the powers of their courts. This SCOTUS seems on the dangerous edge of making themselves 'unimportant'.
All 6 of the Supreme Court Justices should also be deported and forfeit their retirement. For not ruling according to the Constitution. The 3 the Mitch McConnell chose for Trump to put on the Supreme Court lied under oath about not overturning abortion rights. They all basically said, abortion is a done deal it will not be overturned.
Ksvanaugh, "Precedent on precedent" I'll never forget his exact words during senate hearings for his confirmation, "Roe v Wade is Precedent on precedent." Amy Comey Barret, she hedged, at least she was a bit more honest, but Kavanaugh is a straight up liar.
Just like he lied about raping the woman in college. A lot of women sent letters to Dianne Finestein and she didn't give them to anyone. She had already started having symptoms of Dementia. I remember her giving Lindsay Graham a hug when he was confirmed. The woman who testified about being raped is married to the brother of a gentleman at my church. His wife looked terrified standing next to him in the court.
I have to admit that Roe v Wade was weak law. It SHOULD have been based on the 13th Amendment. Women (in certain red states) are held in "Forced Servitude" to the fetus, forced to provide it with life support from her own body, at significant risk of health, physical and emotional (Post partum depression is very real and dangerous) and significant impact on her future, her education and career due to the very real burden of carrying a fetus to delivery. We refer to the process of delivery with the word "Labor" for a reason, and the pain levels experienced are intense. Roughly three women a day die in childbirth, so to indicate there is no risk to the woman (or girl) is absurd.
While we should honor the choice of a woman to bring a child into this world, that is in part a recognition of the sacrifice, the risk she takes willingly, but these certain Red States take that choice from her, treating her as less valuable than a piece of Life support equipment in a hospital. They even came up with the bogus argument that once the fetus has reached to stage of being "Viable" it was 'obvious' she should no longer have any choice at all in the matter. This concept was enforced law under Roe v Wade in MANY states. Consider what "Viable" meant: That the Fetus could 'potentially' survive outside the womb at that stage. This meant she was no longer essential to the process, they just figured she was the cheapest, most convenient incubator available... Or perhaps they decided they could not FORCE a surgery upon her to remove the fetus and transfer to an incubator, while forcing her to undergo essentially an equivalent process to surgery (and sometimes resulting in surgery) of childbirth.
Our laws do not allow the government to force you to keep dear old grandma on life support, but they allowed the government to force a woman to provide life support.
It is much worse, much uglier than this when you consider rape and underage girls who had to have been raped, per the law, and the facts relating to rape being grossly under-reported for a reason... the fact that the primary objection to abortion being religiously based...
Freedoms are not freedoms if they are limited by 'what makes people feel uncomfortable'. You know it is a real freedom when most people object to the person being able to do it, such as Nazis pushing their hateful ideology at an event in the park. Just because people are squeamish about eye surgery does not mean we outlaw it. Just because we make assumptions and do not understand the reasons a woman decides to have an abortion does not mean it is our decision to outlaw her choice in the matter of what to do with her body.
Let us say a person had a rare medical problem that required a bone marrow transplant from a donor that genetically matched, and the only one that could be found was the identical twin of the patient, could THAT adult be forced to undergo surgery to provide that bone marrow, when it is reasonably less life altering, medically risk than a woman carrying and delivering a child? What if the one needing saving was a very beautiful young white girl and the only matching donor was an ugly older black man... Could we force him then? Yes, babies are 'cute' and we are genetically programmed to protect babies, but that does not make it our choice.
Roe v. Wade was a court ruling, not "law". And it was augmented by Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which greatly strengthened the legal argument. And however "weak" it was, Dobbs was vastly weaker. The complaint that Roe v. Wade was "weak" is an absurd red herring.
Please read ALL of my message. Not sure you got to the part where I say we need to (and CAN) do BETTER in protecting women's rights over their own body.
It was weak because it did not declare an absolute right based on the constitution. It leaned on 'privacy' which governments violate all the time. It leaned on confidentiality of a patient and doctor, which has obviously been breached. It was weak because it was acknowledged to have 'limits' essentially based on what the public was 'comfortable' with. Hence the ability to outlaw abortions after a certain number of weeks which many states still do.
Of course Dobbs was a bogus ruling (they have made so very many), based upon the various Justices own statements in their confirmation hearings. My argument is that if we just LOOK at the constitution we can see for ourselves this should be an ABSOLUTE right to an abortion, but apparently that makes people uncomfortable or something. We got so programmed to defend Roe v Wade and the Democratic politicians are promising to return us to Roe v Wade when we should be recognizing that Roe v Wade was WEAK in the protections it gave women to have control over their own bodies and we can do better. READ the 13th amendment. Research what "Involuntary Servitude" means. There is no wriggle room on that right. All we need to do is acknowledge that women are people too, and preventing an abortion is forcing servitude of the woman to the fetus.
The religious will still claim it is murder, but they will always say that. The constitution is clear in that it only declares rights to those who are 'born'. many of the religious, if you get them to be honest, will declare even preventing a pregnancy is equivalent to murder, which is just silly and wrong, so WHY settle for a 'right' that is forever going to be whittled away at, as Roe v Wade was for decades?
What needs to happen is for when a case is brought before the Supreme Court and its 6 corrupt justices’ ruling is considered illegal according to the Constitution the plaintiffs should just say screw this ruling. No one else in this regime and especially the Felon don’t follow the laws and amendments set forth in the Constitution. He disregards laws that were enacted by past Congressional bodies, overrides duties of the other branches of our government. What are they going to do??? Throw the bunch of them in jail?
Do that and see how we the people stand for it!
A party litered with criminals😂😁 sad, pathetic and shameful.
I was going to say "Why do so many of the people acquainted with trump look like they're in the Mob?" - but we already know the answer to that. . .