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The Counsel

Note from Elie 4/11: Trump Threatens to Imprison Critics — and Now He’s Got the AG To Do It

The Counsel

Some Spider, Inc.

Politics, News

4.6848 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 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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0:00.0

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0:02.4

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0:05.3

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0:07.3

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0:10.9

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0:14.8

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0:17.3

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0:22.7

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0:27.7

offer ends 20th of April, excludes Azure Express.

0:33.3

Hey everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a happy Friday. Before we get to this week's column, I just want to

0:38.5

share with you something that happened in one of my other jobs. So some of you may know, I teach at

0:44.3

Rutgers University, teach undergraduates, same school I went to 30 some years ago. I teach a class

0:50.2

on prosecution and then one on national security and Intel. But I also started this program,

0:55.2

this current semester, where we, meaning my students and I are working directly with the office

1:02.2

of our state's governor, Phil Murphy, as he and his office go through hundreds upon hundreds

1:07.9

of pardon applications, clemency applications.

1:11.1

It's a new initiative that the governor launched last year, and now we are helping the governor's

1:16.5

office with it.

1:17.2

And let me tell you, it's been such a remarkable and rewarding experience to see these

1:22.0

students, by the way, all of whom are superstars, many or all of whom are headed for law

1:26.6

school for better or worse,

1:27.5

I'm sure that it all do great.

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