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The Counsel

Note from Elie 11/22: The Trump Hush Money Case Nears its Sorry End

The Counsel

Some Spider, Inc.

Politics, News

4.6848 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Elie Honig is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and co-chief of the organized crime unit at the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted more than 100 mobsters, including members of La Cosa Nostra, and the Gambino and Genovese crime families. He went on to serve as Director of the Department of Law and Public Safety at New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice. He is currently Special Counsel at Lowenstein Sandler and a CNN legal analyst.  For a transcript of Elie’s note and the full archive of contributor notes, head to CAFE.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.5

Hey everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a happy Friday.

0:34.3

Well, what a week.

0:35.1

Gosh, we've now been through two Attorney General nominees

0:39.4

this week. Last week I wrote about Matt Gates and how I thought he was a disastrous pick.

0:45.0

I was asked several times throughout the week, do you think he'll make it as Attorney General?

0:48.8

And my answer was usually, I'm not the one to tell you what's going to happen on Capitol Hill,

0:52.9

but all signs are trending towards no.

0:55.7

Those files about the ethics report, about Matt Gates, the allegations against him relating

1:01.3

to underage women.

1:03.3

It was inevitable that either the report, or if not the report, the facts underlying, it

1:07.3

would continue to drip out.

1:09.3

It didn't seem like that was survivable. Earlier on Thursday,

1:13.5

he withdrew. And within hours, we got the next name, Pam Bondi, the former Attorney General of the

1:19.1

state of Florida. I'll probably be talking more about Pam Bondi in the coming days, maybe next week.

1:24.6

My short take on Pam Bondi is she is qualified on paper. She's been a prosecutor

1:29.1

for 20 years. She was the attorney general, the state of Florida for eight years. This is how this

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