Prosecutors who run for office promising political prosecutions should be disbarred.

 TIME TO STOP POLITICAL INVESTIGATIONS AND PROSECUTIONS

PENALTIES NEED TO BE USED AGAINST INVESTIGATIONS WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE

The legal system in this country is now a train wreck. Much of the damage has been done by politically motivated prosecutors and judges who think that they can use their office to exact vengeance on perceived wrong doers. Sometimes it is just a politically motivated action to damage someone or to use them as an example to others not to challenge the existing order.  Two examples have been in the news this week.

The Montgomery county prosecutor Kevin Steele, pledged during his campign for the office in 2015 to reopen the prosecution of Bill Crosby. After his election he proceeded to honor his pledge even though a previous prosecutor had made a plea deal with Cosby to drop charges in exchange for testimony that resulted in financial settlements to the aggrieved victims. The previous prosecutor had decided there was not enough factual evidence for a conviction. The fact is without the testimony of Cosby in the Civil matter  there would not have been a case in the new criminal trial. While many feel that Cosby was guilty and  no such plea should disqualify the trial, the Legal system needs to be bound by their agreements. 

The other matter is the Attorney General of New York state, Letitia James,  who in her campaign pledged to get Donald Trump. She has been on a political investigation to find any violation by the Trump Company or its executives. All without any serious probable cause or complaint from anyone. It is a purely political persecution of the worst kind. It is an abuse of power which needs to be stopped in this country,

Their first attempt was to claim that the Trump organization under assessed their assets to save on property taxes. They also claim they inflated their assets values to acquire loans. This is an absurd accusation, as anyone who owns property knows, that the assessor for the government determines asset values and you have a right to appeal those decisions to get the best result.  As for inflating the value of assets to acquire loans, the bank or lending institution does not take anyone's word for a value but does the evaluation by their own personnel. It seems that never held any water so now they are attempting to claim that employees receive benefits that they did not pay taxes on. A company car, which many have as a benefit, especially if you need to drive to many meetings or other travel related to your office is often not taxable. There is also use of apartment's etc. It is just so much bullshit, just to go after someone who dared run for office without the permission of the ruling class.

So today, they filed criminal charges against the financial officer of the Trump organization. If there were any real irregularities, precedent is, that taxes and penalties are paid and that is the end of the matter. Of course,  years of investigations and teams of taxpayer funded investigators are on a political mission to damage Trump and anyone associated with him. I suspect this will end the same as all the rest of the political prosecutions, which are just a form of financial and emotional punishment and a warning to others. There should accountability and severe penalties for these types of injustices and abuse of power, but it is unlikely as long it results in political advantage.