Probably sold a few loosies
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Hard to blame the guy - Turkish Airlines business class is quite nice.
Supreme Court rules that “come on, everyone knew he was doing it. He made a promotional video for God’s sakes” is a valid defense and counts as filling paperwork.
When you have a problem, and you elect a cop mayor of your city, now you have two problems.
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Winking emoji
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https://x.com/metzgov/status/1839324166950130015
Just need to get to the level of President or SCOTUS judge, then all this is perfectly fine.
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David Cross has a bit about how "in NYC every 30 seconds you have to choose whether to look at the most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen or the craziest guy you’ve ever seen”
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What benefit could the mayor of New York provide to Turkey? Is it just general good policy to have public officials in your pocket just in case they can be useful? Or they were hoping he’d become more important in the future?
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They wanted to build some consulate or something and needed permits/approvals
Those random Fifth-Freedom flights are always hard to keep tabs on. You never know until you ask!
Also, lol at transferring in IST for NYC-France.
As econophile mentioned, he pressured the Fire Dept to waive inspections on a consulate.
And of course Turkish businesses do lots of business in NYC. There are a lot of ways for a Mayor of NYC to do favors for people that Turkey wants favors done for. Turkey also pressures people to arrest Kurdish “terrorists” abroad.
Clarence Thomas laughing at how little value Adams got.
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Haven’t read the whole indictment, but I believe this is referring to the luxury hotel chain, not the landscaping business:
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Supreme Court Oral Arguments
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[Thomas] : Oh so now the mayor of New York can’t have friends? Is that what you’re saying council?
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