Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Do people not know that prosecutors wanted 34 years? And that these prosecutors represent the very criminal justice system whose conduct as to Maxwell and Epstein I am—on the evidentiary record—calling lenient? So if *they* wanted 34 years and she got 20, what does that tell you? — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Ghislaine Maxwell deserved charges years before she got them. An investigation years before there was one. More charges than she got once she got them. More of a push to get cooperation from her than was ever made. More of a punishment for her lack of remorse than she received. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

R. Kelly got what he deserved, full stop. This thread is about Maxwell deserving *more* than what she got and the others I mentioned in my first tweet needing at least a more robust DOJ *investigation* (not serving warrants 18 months after the offense, as with Eastman and Clark). — PolitiTweet.org

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Apparently more explication is needed. Studies show that race comes into play at every stage of a criminal case: search, seizure, arrest, followup investigation, indictment, jury selection, trial, conviction, appeal, and sentencing. So if you are only looking at sentencing, stop. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Duncanivez Ah—so only the statute, not the number of charges, is taken into account at sentencing? Remorse is not considered? Victim-witness impact? Cooperation or lack of cooperation? No two cases are apples and apples, I agree. And Maxwell should have gotten a higher sentence than Kelly. — PolitiTweet.org

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I am also surprised that more people do not realize that Maxwell participated in some of the illicit sex she orchestrated. She was not merely a passive observer. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@HuibJansen2 It is. The question here is the number of criminal incidents. Also, you do know Maxwell participated in some of the illicit sex, right? — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

So no, as a former public defender who represented over two thousand white and Black defendants in three jurisdictions I am *not* making some knee-jerk click-bait observation about race in our justice system. My anger comes from years of firsthand experience witnessing injustice. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Had she cooperated; had she shown remorse; had there been any indication whatsoever that she tried to exit the ring she was atop or any evidence she was coerced into her conduct, *maybe* twenty years would be enough while Kelly got thirty. But those are simply not the facts here. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

People often get twenty years for an absolutely heinous act they committed over the span of a single second. Maxwell premeditated and plotted and schemed setting up these child rapes for *years and years and years*. Do not tell me twenty years is enough. It should have been life. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Maxwell was atop an international child sex trafficking and commercial bribery ring for years and years and years and when arrested she offered no cooperation and when convicted she showed no remorse. So no, twenty years is *not* enough. She orchestrated *countless* child rapes. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@JMMalyon For years and years and years and years of child sex trafficking followed by *no remorse*? No. 20 years is *not* enough. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@ritalara See my second tweet. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

I hope everyone understands that I’ve no issue with the R. Kelly sentence—and that I *do* understand the cases are different. The cases are different in the sense that Maxwell should have gotten *more time* than Kelly—and the people I named should at *least* have been indicted. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@BrendaForCocoa That is not how sentencing works or how judges think. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

BREAKING NEWS: Singer R. Kelly Gets Sentence 50% Longer Than Child Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, a Rich White Woman; in Other News, Rich Whites Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Kim Guilfoyle, Mike Flynn, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Jeff Clark and Ginni Thomas Remain Uncharged https://t.co/YWxo3B2oHa — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS) No offense, Lev. https://t.co/e2D5dJPFpl — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

The number of Lev Parnases in the world—men who’d commit a campaign finance crime if given the opportunity—is *orders of magnitude* larger than the population of Trump family members, aides, advisors, agents, attorneys and associaties willing and able to *effectuate* such crimes. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

It’s almost like the FBI and DOJ have no understanding of how crime works: the way to reduce major crimes is to indict and incarcerate those who orchestrate them, not the dime-a-dozen henchmen who’ll always be hanging around waiting for a capo to pull them into a criminal scheme. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Parnas’ case is further evidence that when it’s a flunkie under the microscope the FBI and DOJ are the goddamn Pinkertons, but when anyone of any political significance is in the crosshairs of an investigation the same folks mysteriously become The Gang That Can’t Shoot Straight. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

If you read PROOF OF CORRUPTION (Macmillan, 2020) you know how deranged it is that Rudy Giuliani is a free man happily filing false reports to law enforcement from a Shop Rite in Staten Island while his stooge Lev is doing a 20-month bid in federal prison. Get off your ass, DOJ. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AP: Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani who was a figure in President Donald Trump's first impeachment investigation, was sentenc… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jeremynewberger: You people went from "Don't tell us to wear masks!" to "Have that baby!" in like two months. You realize how crazy tha… — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

FOX NEWS on Trump’s January 6 lies: “Cassidy Hutchinson is under oath on Capitol Hill—Donald Trump is on Truth Social.” If Trump expects anyone to believe a word he says, he can go before Congress and perjure himself just like he’s asking the witnesses he’s tampering with to do. — PolitiTweet.org

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Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

RT @politico: It’s hard to imagine how Tuesday’s surprise hearing of the House Jan. 6 committee could’ve been more damning for Donald Trump… — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Every major GOP elected official has said they will support Donald Trump if he’s the 2024 GOP presidential nominee—which he will be if he wants to be. Which he does. So if you vote for the GOP this fall, don’t pretend you didn’t know *exactly* what—and who—you were voting for. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

RT @SethAbramson: BREAKING: Trump Aides Bolster Hutchinson, with Grisham Saying Testimony “Rang True” As “Scary” Trump Temper Involved “Thr… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kyledcheney: THE BIG PICTURE: Cassidy Hutchinson just laid out the most devastating case against a sitting president’s conduct in histo… — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

(PS2) If you want to know what sort of man Ornato is—i.e., besides a man who would apparently rather perjure himself under oath and destroy the life of a 25 year-old whistleblower with no reason to lie rather than displease Trump even one iota—read this: https://t.co/bc3w8CxsIu — PolitiTweet.org