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Top Comments: Notebook #48: Career Criminals [1]

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Date: 2022-09-16

Tonight’s offering consists of news links to a very few stories in the news followed by a moral to the story. First, an offering from CBS News.

CBS News: Some Jan. 6 defendants accused of other crimes since Capitol attack by Scott McFarlane

A CBS News review of U.S. Justice Department court filings shows a growing number of Jan. 6 defendants have been arrested again, for subsequent crimes involving guns, drugs and domestic abuse. The new charges complicate their ability to secure lenient sentences in their cases related to the rioting on Jan. 6, 2021, and they potentially jeopardize attempts by other Capitol riot defendants to secure pretrial releases in their cases.[...} University of Maryland law professor Michael Greenberger said the unique politicization of the prosecutions related to Jan. 6, including by former President Donald Trump, increases the risk of recidivism by some of the defendants. Greenberger said the ongoing denials the 2020 election results by some political leaders and the talk of future pardons for Jan. 6 defendants by Trump "leaves these bad actors with little doubt that they will ultimately be forgiven—if not lionized." Greenberger said, "Reality, however, is likely to settle upon those guys when they are ultimately sentenced or resentenced to many years in jail."

Next is the latest news involving former NFL QB Brett Favre.

Texts between Brett Favre and a number of Mississippi government and nonprofit officials suggest that the quarterback received misappropriated funds to build a volleyball facility at the University of Southern Mississippi. The funds were originally reserved for those in the state seeking welfare. Favre’s contact with Nancy New, founder of the Mississippi Community Education Center, and former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) are part of a much larger lawsuit concerning tens of millions of dollars in misspent state money. According to Mississippi Today, the volleyball facility was built using nearly $5 million in Mississippi welfare funds. New and her son were convicted in April for their involvement in constructing the facility. Between 2017 and 2019, New, Favre and Bryant were all in communication about building the facility. After meeting with the retired NFL star in 2019, Bryant suggested to New that money should go toward helping him and the University of Southern Mississippi, where Favre’s daughter played volleyball from 2017 to 2022. Before and after the conversation between New and the governor, Favre and the nonprofit founder were shown to have a comfortable working relationship in which she regularly encouraged him that they had Bryant and the state government’s support. In 2017, Favre asked about the privacy of the funding.

Next: The widespread and institutional sexual abuse allegations against the Southern Baptist Convention, now being investigated by the Justice Department.

The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, announced Friday that the Justice Department is conducting an investigation into the convention's handling of sex abuse cases, The New York Times and Washington Post reported. "The SBC Executive Committee recently became aware that the Department of Justice has initiated an investigation into the Southern Baptist Convention, and that the investigation will include multiple SBC entities," a statement from 14 SBC leaders read. "Individually and collectively each SBC entity is resolved to fully and completely cooperate with the investigation." This announcement comes after an internal report released in May revealed the widespread suppression of reports of sexual abuse within the SBC. The Post explained that the report led to "a recommendation to create a database to track sex abusers and a formal group to handle sex abuse accusations going forward." The SBC has nearly 14 million members across more than 47,000 churches.

After telling you who we are and what we do at Top Comments, I have one more link followed by the moral to all these stories.

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One last exhibit:

x For your viewing pleasure: The Steve Bannon perp walk. Trump’s next. pic.twitter.com/AEE759QF0J — Mike Sington (@MikeSington) September 8, 2022

And remember: Steve Bannon’s arrest was after receiving a presidential pardon just before Number 45 left office.

You get the gist of it.

For all of the holy pretensions and sanctimonious attitudes of the MAGA crowd, many of them are little more than common career criminals (with many wannabes among them, I suspect) being egged on, cheered, and even (now) inspired by a treasonous former POTUS.

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