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empedocles

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7. Legal opinion is actually pretty well split on this extortion issue.

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Sun Feb 10, 2019, 01:36 PM

Feb 2019

Also on the PR side, Goliath Bezos Amazon with unlimited resources/subsidies [private detectives/operatives, plants, etc.,] on this issue, - are not overwhelmingly sympathetic.

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Alan Dershowitz: "Extortion of Jeff Bezos was just extortion-ish." [View all] DetlefK Feb 2019 OP

I hope Laurence Tribe (or Seth Abramson, J. Toobin. Neil Kayal or any REAL lawyer) addresses this hlthe2b Feb 2019 #1

This is gibberish-ish. dameatball Feb 2019 #2

Oh come on... Dersh is up to his eyeballs with these crooks C_U_L8R Feb 2019 #3

Pecker is probably blackmailing him too. marylandblue Feb 2019 #6

I guess when the consigliere threatens to break your legs marylandblue Feb 2019 #4

Translation: "stop picking on my friends!!" Fuzzpope Feb 2019 #5

Legal opinion is actually pretty well split on this extortion issue. empedocles Feb 2019 #7

All legal opinions and actions start out "pretty equal". At least, thats the theory, right? marble falls Feb 2019 #9

LOL! Why, yes! Yes they do! LOL. PSPS Feb 2019 #10

Right here, it's in the law book, under "extortionish", next to "murderish"! marble falls Feb 2019 #8

Two words... 2naSalit Feb 2019 #11

Weird argument Yosemito Feb 2019 #12

Shouldn't he be holed up worrying about the Epstein plea deal investigation? Vinca Feb 2019 #13

Every single day (it seems) we have to see the trash from Dersh posted here. DontBooVote Feb 2019 #14

According to the conservative legal types at the Volokh Conspiracy, Alan is wrong Gothmog Feb 2019 #15