Does Turley realize that’s a bad word and not how he wants to be describing the man who he wants to become president again? This is not helpful, no sir. Trump’s not going to want to print out his articles and read them out loud to cameras anymore if Turley keeps talking like this on teevee.
Anyway, as we mentioned last week, there was another “elderly” first-time, white-collar offender in recent years who was sentenced to Rikers by Judge Juan Merchan after being convicted of multiple felonies: former Trump Org CFO Allen Weaselberg Weisselberg, who got five months after pleading guilty to 15 felonies… before a different judge gave him a second five-month stay.
Want even more hopium? Great! Former NYC prosecutor Tess Cohen tells the Daily Beast that whatever sentence Merchan hands down is very unlikely to be stayed at the get-go. “It’s almost never done. That’s a really rare thing. You basically have to have a very good chance at winning on appeal… No standard defendant would get a stay pending appeal after a trial like this.”