Attribution: Big Board of Senate Confirmation Hearings by R.J. Matson, CQ Roll Call
Taking Sides
Sunday Serendipity
Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus is a work for string orchestra and harp by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The composition is based on the folk tune “Dives and Lazarus“
A bit of peaceful music for troubled times
Enjoy, Jack
The School of Hard Knocks
Trump Sentencing Today
In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court REJECTED Donald Trump’s motion to block his criminal sentencing in New York.
Trump was found guilty in May of falsifying business records with the intent to commit a second crime.
The office of Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, argued that Trump falsely recorded reimbursements he made to his former lawyer Michael Cohen for paying $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels, so she would keep quiet about an alleged sexual liaison with the then candidate. Trump marked these repayments to Cohen as “legal expenses” on financial documents.
State prosecutors contended at trial that these falsifications were intended to hide Trump’s violation of New York election law, which forbids promoting any person to office through unlawful means. They said that the unlawful means were the payoff to Daniels, as they cast it as an illegal campaign contribution.