Here come da judge….
– Pigmeat Markham
Take a load off Fanny….
– The band
Lawyering is hard work. First, you have to get a college degree. OK, that’s not hard work; that’s a four-year summer camp these days. But then you have to get into law school.
Once in law school, you waste three years being taught a lot of BS, but they never teach how to practice law. I got an ‘A’ in Property Law but was never taught how to buy a house. I got an ‘A’ in Contract Law but never drafted – or even read – a contract. I got an ‘A’ in Civil Procedure but was never taught when to stand up in a courtroom and when to sit down.
Then you have to take the Bar Exam to become a licensed lawyer. It’s in studying for the Bar Exam for a month that you finally learn some law. But you still don’t know how to buy a house, draft a contract, or when to stand up and when to sit down.
Then you have to find a job. That can be challenging. If you find a job in private practice, you have to bust your nuts for 5-10 years to make partner.
And you’re forever an hourly worker. At some point, your hourly pay can add up to a lot. But you’re never making money while you sleep. You make money by the hour.
(An old lawyer joke: A successful, fit lawyer died and went to heaven. At the gate, he told Saint Peter there must be a mistake. He explained that he was only 48 years old. His saintliness looked at his scrolls, peered over his reading glasses at the newly dead lawyer, and said, “Huh. According to your billing records, you’re 117 years old. And you’re in the wrong place.”
All that said, I loved practicing law. It was a privilege, and I was fortunate to enjoy it with some remarkable people. But it’s no picnic, and certainly no vacation in Aruba.
Which brings us to a charming Georgia peach of a lawyer named Fanny. Er, I mean Fani. I’m told that the difference between Fanny and Fani is the pronunciation. The latter is pronounced FAW-nee. Or maybe it’s Faw-NEE.
However you pronounce the name, it’s particularly fitting for this woman, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, this steatopygiatic Fanny Fani is the District Attorney in Fulton County, Georgia who is prosecuting Donald Trump for the purpose of advancing her career under the pretense of prosecuting him for saying things he shouldn’t have.
Her case includes a charge of racketeering under the RICO statute, a law that was enacted to put mobsters in jail and used to great effect by one Rudi Guiliani in a prior life preceding the current life where it’s being used to great effect against him. (John Gotti must be smirking up in heaven, a place he got into because he may have stolen and murdered, but he never padded his hours).
Problem is, Fanny Fani has little or no experience in RICO cases. So, she naturally used three-quarters of a million taxpayer dollars to hire some help, who also has little to no experience in RICO cases.
The hired help happened to be her boyfriend. Although I mentioned that lawyers cannot make money while they sleep, this boyfriend did. His billings to the Fulton County District Attorney office included at least one day where he billed 24 hours. (Saint Peter, are you listening?)
Fanny Fani and the boyfriend went on half a dozen vacations to Aruba, Napa and the like. He paid her way, out of the three-quarter mil that she paid him with taxpayer money for his RICO “expertise.”
Ah, but she says she always paid him back for her share. In cash, and so there’s no record of it. And no record of any ATM withdrawals of that cash. And no record of him depositing any of that cash into any bank accounts.
Some ink has been spilled on the question whether their romance began before or after she hired him. She says it was after. That way, it could be not be said that she employed him because he was her boyfriend with whom she went on all those lavish vacations with money coming from taxpayers. Rather, all that could be said is that she continued employing him after he became her boyfriend with whom she went on all those lavish vacations with money coming from taxpayers.
In any event, her former close friend testified under oath that she’s lying. The guy was her boyfriend when she hired him, said the close friend. In fact, the rumor is that Fanny Fani slept with the guy the day she met him, long before she hired him and maybe before she spoke to him.
All this adds up to what lawyers call “the appearance of impropriety.” If not the reality of it.
It may surprise you that lawyers are bound by rules of ethics. They’re not supposed to sleep with opposing counsel or with judges before whom they have a case because that creates a conflict of interest. They’re not supposed to steal clients’ money because that’s theft. They’re not supposed to lie to judges. (Lying to opposing counsel is not so bad, so long as you don’t sleep with them.)
And they’re not supposed to do or say things that create the mere appearance of doing any of those things.
One such activity with a bad appearance – bad optics, you might say – is taking or giving kickbacks. For example, a lawyer in private practice cannot ethically pay an officer of a corporate client for the privilege of representing that client. An in-house lawyer at a corporate client cannot ethically receive a kickback from a private practice lawyer whom the in-house lawyer hires for specialized legal work.
Fanny Fani may or may not have received kickbacks in the form of fancy paid vacations from her boyfriend whom she hired for RICO “expertise.” Maybe her story that she always repaid him – in untraceable cash – is the truth. But the whole scheme smells. It’s the appearance of impropriety, if not the reality.
I watched some of Fanny Fani’s testimony. To my eyes and ears, she’s a clumsy, bald-faced liar. More importantly, my read of the judge – an able judge who once worked as a lawyer in Fanny Fani’s office and undoubtedly picked up some juicy scuttle-butt – is that he thinks so too.
Fanny Fani cannot handle the load of a lawyer. I predict that the judge will take that load off her, for at least this case.
the Aspen beat 
We can only hope the judge has clear eyes and a stout heart. The left’s unabashed efforts to keep President Trump out of the White House again reek of a Bohemian Corporal who brought the world to it’s knees. You may think that an extreme reference but one simply needs to watch the current administration stumbling around in the dark as it seeks foreign policy to reveal itself before we all go up in smoke.
I hope you are correct, but, I also watched and I’m not sure the Judge has the guts to take her off. I was on the bench 12 years and, I know, I would!
Watching her sexual performance seems to me would be like watching a walrus copulating. What sane man would want any action with that vile wreck of a woman. She comes from a black, panther background and that is pretty easy to see in her. She is the worst piece of work I have ever seen in the legal profession. Satan is waiting anxiously for her I bet.
Both the New York City (L James) and Atlanta ( Fani ) cases are being run out of DC by the shadow lawfare group headed by Weissmann and McCord.
DAG Monaco is the bridge that connects all 3 cases, 1. Smith, 2. James and 3. Willis. He knew.. ~TheLastRefuge.
steatopygiatic
I had to look it up.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Thanks, Glen, you have increased my vocabulary most spectacularly!
Good article Glenn. For a time in my life, I invested in real estate. A tough field in New York. As a creative writer, I enjoyed writing my own contracts. Some of which made me a lot of money. Some of which just got me in a whole lot of hot water. I had a lawyer named Sol. A big-mouth Jewish lawyer from Brooklyn. He really liked me for some reason, knew the law, and got me out of many of my self-inflicted contract scrapes. One day he said: “Steve, the next time you pick up a pen to write your own contract I’m gonna break your fingers.” We both laughed. But I got his point. Ironically, not too long afterward, he offered me a job in his law office. Not to do contracts, obviously, but research.
Does anyone else here see any similarities between fat Fani Willis and her obvious and apparent abuse of her prosecutorial powers, and the abuse that occurred by then (ex) D.A. Mike Nifong and the infamous Duke lacrosse case? That Duke case was some time ago, and time does seem to fly by … but it was some 17 or 18 years ago that the Duke boys became the national zeitgeist.
See: https://www.today.duke.edu/showcase/lacrosseincident/
I’m not saying that these cases are identical, but (at least to me) they seem to have some similarities. Both D.A.s seem to be primarily motivated by politics, not by the pursuit of justice (and I mean real objective justice, not the social justice that is so in vogue today.)
I seem to remember that Nifong had actually withheld evidence from the accused Duke boys that was favorable to them, much of which in fact pointed to their innocence.
Perhaps Nifong’s misconduct was on a different level or of a different nature than what fat Fani’s misconduct seems to be, but they both were/are up to their necks in scandal and appearances of improprieties.
This seems like a rare occurrence with elected district attorneys in which they are tainted by scandal and misconduct, so when Fani Willis’s ethical lapses become front and center, I am reminded of Mike Nifong’s too.
Of course we have other D.A.s around the country who are just terrible … these George Soros plants who are just decimating the quality of life in their communities by acting more like public defenders while executing their duties as chief prosecutors for their counties.
Not far from where I reside here on the Left Coast, Los Angeles County D.A. George Gascón has become the psychopathic criminal’s best friend. And yet despite this, I cannot say that Gascón has engaged in illegalities, misconduct, bribery/kickbacks, and/or other such acts that violate the canons of the legal field.
Gascón implements bad policies, really bad policies, to the detriment of LA County residents. I would even say that Gascón’s policies are unethical; but the people who voted him into office knew what they were getting when they checked his name on their ballots.
Lastly … this goes to perhaps an even larger issue, one that I do not hear talked about or analyzed very much. And this goes to the heart of our American criminal justice system.
I once read somewhere (probably put out by the libertarian Cato Institute) that there are so many laws, regulations, ordinances and other obscure codes that if an average person leaves his house, gets into his car and just drives 15 or 20 minutes, he has probably unknowingly violated up to a dozen or so of these rules, codes and regulations.
The late great Winston Churchill said this much better than I could with these prescient words … “If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
See: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/97952-if-you-have-ten-thousand-regulations-you-destroy-all-respect
These Byzantine-like obscure rules and regulations all seem to be there … largely waiting there quietly, and unenforced, until the right political target comes along, and then … surprise! … the unknowing offender is arrested and subjected to a Kafkaesque process.
This was a key plot device in Ayn Rand’s epic novel “Atlas Shrugged” when the machinery of the state was turned against one of the heroic capitalists because he would not bend the knee to the statist bureaucrats.
See: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662.Atlas_Shrugged?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=wnjctfAuSX&rank=1
So is this now life imitating art in which the machinery of the state has been turned against a political target because he is seen as a direct threat to their power? I would say yes … there are too many eerie similarities to discount or ignore this.
Also, what has happened to the notion of our justice system that is supposed to respond to and detect the crime and then follow the clues and facts to find and arrest the criminal perpetrator? A crime occurs and the system finds the perpetrator. This method has always been the traditional modus operandi of our system of justice.
Now … our system has seemingly been flipped around in which our law enforcement, prosecutors, and courts are behaving in Kafkaesque and Orwellian manners. Instead we have a citizen picked out by the government and investigated until a crime or violation can be shown.
Perhaps Donald Trump and/or his lawyers forgot a comma or misplaced a decimal point during the some 50 years of his real estate, casino and entertainment business endeavors. So … he is now run through an Alice In Wonderland like kangaroo court and faces the loss of his hotels that he has spent a lifetime successfully building and managing? WTF?!?
This also seems quite Stalinesque too … as even Josef Stalin’s own secret police henchman perfectly described this:
“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.”
— Lavrentiy Beria
See: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1137804
So this all circles back to fat Fani and her Queen of Hearts attitude towards justice … “Sentence first—verdict afterward.”
See: https://www.enotes.com/topics/alices-adventures/quotes/sentence-first-verdict-afterward
America seems to be slipping more and more into a world that seems unreal, like an Alice in Wonderland story, or even an Ayn Rand dystopia.
Apologies if my responses go on long. But Glenn’s columns and many of your responses tend to fire off my grey matter synapses and these thoughts and ideas just pour out into words.
In the meantime … I would be most interested if any of the legal eagles here have a better perspective regarding any Willis-Nifong similarities, as well as a perspective about what seems like the devolution of our justice system.
G’day to all …
A Footnote: I just read this USDOJ press release (see below) in which a man, who ran an unscrupulous auto smog check business, is now going to federal prison for violating the U.S. Clean Air Act. My issue isn’t about this individual, as he was engaged in a form of fraud and bribery for faking smog tests of customers who would then pay him a bonus.
But the issue I am bringing up here is the myriad of laws, rules and regulations that you, your family and neighbors, and I know very little about. Who is to say that on any particular given day, that your automobile, lawn mower, or backyard BBQ is in violation of the Clean Air Act because of some air quality alert issued by your regional or state air pollution control commission that none of us have ever heard about? An act as simple as lighting your fireplace or backyard BBQ could in reality put you in violation of the Clean Air Act, whether you know it or not.
BTW … I say this as a retired Fed, who did a 25+ year career with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
In the meantime … the alphabet soup EPA got their man, and he is headed to federal prison. I wonder if he gets an inmate job at his prison’s automotive garage maintaining and repairing the federal prison’s fleet of government vehicles?!? The truth is inmates like this guy with skills almost always make the best inmate workers at prison facilities.
As we are all subjected to Winston Churchill’s adage of 10,000+ regulations, we are all of us criminals, whether we know it or not. It’s a brave new world …
Reference: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdnc/pr/charlotte-man-sentenced-and-fined-violating-clean-air-act
Cell phone data – At least 35 visits to Fani Willis’s condo before the “relationship” started… 2,000 calls and 12K texts between Wade/Willis in 2021….
Late night hook-ups after calls from Fani. in 2021… Each is corroborated by Wade’s location and texts/calls between Wade and Fani .
The records disprove Willis’s testimony. They are not just disqualifying – they are a threat to Willis’s career.
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