could easily win a national election. he had left the 1960 election which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy with bitterness. and a sense the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demon that is he always had within him to play during elections. it is about lust for power and absence of morality. it was all about holding on to power. no one can find out about this. whatever it takes. when the president does it it means that it is not illegal. i told the american people i did not trade hostages for arms. there will not be an abuse of power in this office. he develops weapons of mass destruction. we are in trouble. i just want to find 11,780 votes. and that s really when you reach a tipping point in a democracy. that s how dictators come to power. within hours of the arrests at the watergate, the nixon white house started covering up. i was the desk officer of the cover-up. i get the information and gather it and i share it and they were maki
Eastern European gangster Roman Nikoghosyan, who extorted people and helped a fellow criminal escape from the city’s Bronx jail barge, isn’t just a bad guy — he’s a bad son, a Brooklyn Federal Court judge said at his sentencing Wednesday. Judge Dora Irizarry hammered Nikoghosyan, 34 — an alleged ranking member of the KavKaz Nation gang — for pulling his mother into the daring 2021 escape .
weren t you suspicious when you were told to use an assumed name? didn t that indicate to you there was some hanky-panky going on? no, your honor. he was very concerned about the justice department prosecution. made no bones about that. he said something is fishy here. sirica, who had repeatedly has repeatedly expressed an interest asked baldwin to what person at the reelection committee he had delivered logs of wiretapped conversations. i do not know. and he just knew in his gut that it was pointing to that building down at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. he knew it and he wouldn t let go. and it made a difference. to stand up to power, it s really hard to do that. for a judge to step out of his role but he did it. you wonder, you know.