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cases are true alike. That there not be one rule for Democrats and another for Republicans,

one rule for the powerful, another for the powerless,

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So yeah, now it's clean up on aisle 45 time and for a long while yet it is going to be

clean up on aisle 45.

Hey everybody welcome episode 176 of cleanup on now 45 it's Wednesday June 5th

2024 I'm Pete struck and last week we told you that we'd have a verdict by the time

this episode aired this Wednesday.

Yep.

Yep.

Hey Pete, I'm Allison, Allison Gill, and at 420 PM Eastern Standard Time, Thursday, May 31st, 2024, we got the verdict.

Guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsification of business records.

Pete, where were you when the verdict happened? I was

driving into downtown DC to meet some friends for dinner. I had figured well

Thursday was probably a safe day because probably not going to come out until Friday, maybe even after the weekend, and after, you know, kind of hearing the rumbling that it was wasn't clear and we'll talk about what was going on.

Hoped in the car and was driving down. I literally had driven past going to like the Farragut Square area. So coming in for Virginia you can come in 66 and go over the bridge that puts you on East

Street and it dumps you out right in front of the old executive office

building and you have to turn left or right. Used to be able to go through back in the old old days. So anyway I turned

left to head north I'm past the Eisenhower office building or the old

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