Mobster Marian Kočner used to call him Gambino. He feared the idea that Daniel Lipšic could get into power because the state would then start paying attention to how Kočner and his friend Norbert Bödör earned their millions.
When Robert Fico s government started wobbling after the murder of Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová, Kočner conversed about it in the coded Threema app with tax fraudster Ladislav Bašternák. F k, it s headed for a fall. When it falls, we won t have time to leave. Every press conference is like you and me, and Bödör mooched hundreds of millions of euros. I never fear anything, but I m starting to be afraid. Laco, if this falls, we will go into custody the next day. Said Matovič and Lipšic, Kočner wrote back then.
A special department of the Special Prosecutor’s Office that fights extremism is said to be closing soon.
Its merger with the rest of the office has been mentioned by several candidates for the special prosecutor post and even the recently appointed General Prosecutor Maroš Žilinka, the Sme daily reported.
The department has recorded several successes. Thanks to its work, Milan Mazurek of the far-right Kotlebovci – People’s Party Our Slovakia (ĽSNS) was found guilty of extremism-related crimes and had to leave parliament back in 2019. It also contributed to prosecuting ĽSNS chair Marian Kotleba, also found guilty in connection with controversial cheques. The verdict is not effective yet.
forget, the president s former campaign chairman for five or six months. he was on top of the presidential campaign. he is about to go to jail poe tomorr potentially for the rest of his life. i remember covering it. it s an astounding downfall for someone who joined the trump campaign, who ran the campaign as chairman three years ago and now he is awaiting his fate. the special prosecutor s office requested 25 years in prison for bank and tax fraud. remember, he is one of six trump associates charged in the mueller investigation. this has been one of the most high profile investigations. now he is awaiting to learn his fate. you will remember the time, wolf, when he joined the campaign, trump allies were praising this move. it was a big deal. he was there to get republican delegates on board.
house and they directly ask you questions, and you don t answer those questions truthfully, and we have the documents which would suggest you answered the questions falsely. and we have radio interviews and television interviews and public statements that suggest that you re amiss, there s a problem here. so, he is in world, stone, of hurt, concerning what he said and the misleading nature of that, in terms what collusion, what coordination went on, we ll wait and see. but it seems that mueller is a pretty thorough guy. so the theatrics as stone characterized what happened at his home is what? look, i think the viewers need to understand the fbi doesn t make decisions as to how somebody is brought into custody. that s a decision made by the special prosecutor s office and the department of justice.
this stuff unsealed, we know this was not a matter that congress became interested in, these are all things that prosecutors, special prosecutor s office, gathered information about, put together as criminal evidence, evidence of criminal behavior by the president, and referred it to congress, who then put it forward in articles of impeachment. but they saw this as criminal behavior by the president, that aside from the question of whether or not the president could be indicted, this was a matter not just of congressional interest, it was a matter of the president being a felon. right. so this is, i think, a really important point, and it has immediate implications for the present day. we often throw around questions like, oh, did the president just obstruct justice? we talk in this language that refers to specific criminal statutes or categories of criminal statutes. let s distinguish between