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Hey everyone, Ellie Honig here, bringing you my weekly note to the cafe community, my cafe brief.

Thanks as always for checking this out.

Check out my book as well.

Hatchetman. You can find it anywhere you buy books. It's been going great. I'm hearing from a lot of you,

which I really appreciate. Keep sending any thoughts, comments, or questions to letters atcafe.com. Dear listener, Thomas Barrack is in a tough spot.

The former chair of the Trump 2016 inaugural committee finds himself on the wrong

side of an indictment for crimes that are serious, layered, and seemingly supported by

dead-bang evidence. The question now is whether he'll take on the long odds that come with

contesting any federal indictment, never mind one as ironclad as this one, or if he'll try to save his own hide

even at the expense of others around him. The indictment first charges that Barrack acted as an

unregistered foreign lobbyist in the United States. To be clear, it's not a crime to lobby the

United States government on behalf of a foreign national or

country. You just have to formally register with DOJ first. The official registration forms are

online. They're actually not mega complex. Oh, so what, a skeptic might ask? He didn't fill out

some paperwork. That's a crime? Indeed, it is and it should be. I'm no more a fan of

administrative crimes than the next guy, but this is more than just some filing oversight. The idea

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