I earlier posted about this lawsuit as another Bertha Lewis headache. Via Moe Lane, comes this eyebrow-raising development
A City Council hopeful won’t cough up documents related to whether the Working Families Party is scamming the campaign finance system — because the case could involve “criminal liability,” according to documents released yesterday.The bombshell development was revealed at a court hearing where lawyers for the WFP and the campaign of Staten Island candidate Debi Rose tried to get a suit against them tossed. [...]
The WFP and Rose had tried Thursday to buck a discovery request saying they had to produce documents and campaign finance records.
A lawyer for the campaign said Rose’s treasurer, David Thomas, wouldn’t produce them because they “may implicate criminal liability and his client would therefore have Fifth Amendment rights protecting him from having to make any such compelled disclosure,” according to the affidavit, which quoted a deputy clerk in the Appellate Division.
One defendant takes the fifth, another plays the race card.
[Data and Field Services spokesman Bryan] Collinsworth called it a “frivolous lawsuit brought by Giuliani and Republican hacks. They’re going on a fishing expedition to stop the historic election of the first African-American on Staten Island.”
One.Day.Story.
Comment by Salt Lick on 11/2 @ 4:35 am #
Sometimes I wonder if ACORN is Obongo’s echo of Winnie Mandela’s Football clubs. There but for the Constitution we are all wearing tire necklaces.
Comment by B Moe on 11/2 @ 6:45 am #
Does the Fifth apply to evidence?
Comment by Joe on 11/2 @ 6:52 am #
ACORN = It’s Our Thing
You have to be a friend of ours to enjoy it.
Comment by Rusty on 11/2 @ 7:19 am #
ACORN=COSA NOSTRA for democrats. RICO
Comment by JD on 11/2 @ 7:29 am #
This is hysterical.
Comment by Darleen on 11/2 @ 7:54 am #
don’t you love that “historic election” schtick?
Comment by TheGeezer on 11/2 @ 7:55 am #
Whatever touches Acorn has a stench forever.
Obama?
Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/2 @ 7:55 am #
Does the Fifth apply to evidence?
Of coure not, and this ambulance-chaser knows it (or ought to). Subpoena them.
Comment by sdferr on 11/2 @ 8:03 am #
Could CNN be running that Naples mafia murder video with the intent that it be taken as a metaphor for American indifference to the killing in broad daylight of its Constitutional Republic?
Nah.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/2 @ 8:31 am #
It’s amazing just how many “isolated” legal problems ACORN and their undercover affiliates have. And of course, when exposed, the chief tactic is denial followed by race cards flyin’ faster than an Atlantic City dealer…
So I wonder how many months longer this one.day.story. is going to continue..?
Comment by Wm T Sherman on 11/2 @ 9:11 am #
10. Comment by Bob Reed on 11/2 @ 8:31 am #
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It’s wall-to-wall, contiguous isolated incidents, i.e. “a rich vibrant tapestry.”
Comment by JD on 11/2 @ 10:17 am #
A rich vibrant tapestry of isolated events. I am going to borrow that one.
Comment by Ken Lightcap on 11/2 @ 11:10 am #
I’m not a lawyer and didn’t even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but since when can you refuse to turn over documents that may incriminate you under fifth amendment protection? Once you right it down it’s evidence.
Comment by dicentra on 11/2 @ 11:57 am #
since when can you refuse to turn over documents that may incriminate you under fifth amendment protection?
Since your patrons won Congress and the White House.
Chicago!
Comment by Spiny Norman on 11/2 @ 8:44 pm #
#11 Wm T Sherman
“ACORN’s rich vibrant tapestry of isolated incidents”.
Love it. I think that should be added as a regular feature.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 11/2 @ 8:54 pm #
A lawyer for the campaign said Rose’s treasurer, David Thomas, wouldn’t produce them because they “may implicate criminal liability and his client would therefore have Fifth Amendment rights protecting him from having to make any such compelled disclosure,” according to the affidavit, which quoted a deputy clerk in the Appellate Division.
Say what? Why do I picture the presiding judge doing a “facepalm” over that?
Comment by TC@LeatherPenguin on 11/3 @ 8:40 am #
I live in Rose’s district. The SEIU/WFP flunkies have been everywhere you turn around here. I–well, my dog–chased two purple shirted bastards out of my front yard when they were stupid enough to ignore the “NO SOLICITATION” sign. The barking made me look out the window, and I watched them go across the street to a house that has been turned into an SRO for illegals, where three landscaping cholos signed what I have to believe were voting-related papers presented to them on clipboards after some “esplainin’.”
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