street, and not just the ada street branch, i spent so many great hours. me too. my grandmother was librarian, books are important reading is a skill that yo want young children, and all children, to have. i mean, literally the dictionary definition of putting but - like so many public right now in america, it depends o what state you live in. so there is no threatening of libraries in massachusetts where i grew up, and there i also no threatening of abortio rights in massachusetts, w will have massachusetts ne attorney general join us tonight to talk about this massachusetts plan to continue to deliver abortion medication no matter what a federal judge in texas says. this is a fascinating plan they have i massachusetts. we will see how that will work fascinating and important especially at this hour. i wil be watching, lawrence. thank. thank you alex. than you. the breaking news legal new of the day s manhattan distric attorney alvin bragg takin legal action agai
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Heres how it came to be. In may of this year, may 22nd, the New York Times had a scoop that they probably only got because they are specifically the New York Times. They sent crack reporters to an otherwise sleepy courthouse in albany, new york, not a Federal Courthouse, a state court, because that day in that state court in new york, a longtime Business Partner of Michael Cohens, A Taxicab Mogul Named Gene Friedman Who everybody called the taxi king, he was in court. He had been facing really serious charges in new york, Tax Evasion Charges in new york more than 5 million and four criminal counts of tax fraud and facing a charge of grand larceny. A big stack of charges involving a large amount of money and potentially a large amount of jail time. The story they uncovered at the courthouse that day, for some reason, friedman had gotten this huge Criminal Liability he was facing winnowed down to almost
nothing. He was able to work out some sort of deal where all of that prison time and
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Charge of grand larceny, a big stack of charges involving a large amount of money and potentially a large amount of jail time. The story they uncovered at the courthouse that day, for some reason, friedman had gotten this huge Criminal Liability he was facing winnowed down to almost nothing. All the prison time and felonies evaporated. Instead of being tried for evading 5 million in taxes, prosecutors let him plead guilty to one count of evaluating 50,000 worth of taxes. Not 5 million, 50,000. Instead of decades in potential prison time the deal he cut with prosecutors got him zero prison time. People do plea deals all the time they offer their testimony for prosecutors letting them off the hook and going easier on
them. This was like the mother of all plea deals. The amount he offered must have been very very valuable to the government given how sweet the deal was he got from them in return. That happened in late may.
All Santia had to do was request donations are made to her charitable foundation, which it has been written she has. End of story. Her protestations of innocence, and now threats, seem to do little but keep the story alive.