One Vibraaaaaasant Minnesota!
By Mitch Berg
It has become an iron clad fact that the only actual “reporting” going on in Twin Cities media is from the “alternative” media.
And while I riff on the “MN Reformer” – which is paid for by leftists with deep pockets – I’ll include them as well.
“Bags of Cash” allegedly offered to “Feeding Our Future” juror:
But…why?
Scott Johnson at Powerline is in the courtroom:
According to [leader prosecutor Joe] Thompson, the juror called 911 and the Spring Lake Park Police have taken custody of the cash — [update: the amount is $120,000]. It will be retrieved by the FBI.
Much more to come.
June 3rd, 2024 at 10:46 am
The other eleven jurors are all saying, “Geez, lady, what’s WRONG with you? Take the money and vote to convict anyway. Now I’ve got to expain why I didn’t turn over MY bag right away. Idiot.”
June 3rd, 2024 at 11:33 am
Whether its killing Justine Damond, stuffing ballot boxes, marrying your brother, siphoning $250+ million from the state treasury, running car theft rings, trafficking underage sex workers, murder of many varieties, or merely strong arming people, the decision to import the Somali culture to Minnesota as certainly enhanced the MN diversity landscape.
With a couple more elections the Somalis will have enough people in positions of power that an attempt to bribe a juror would never see the light of day – and most likely neither would the juror who reported it.
June 3rd, 2024 at 12:09 pm
So, did people deliver cash to the families of the Derek Chauvin jury as well?
June 3rd, 2024 at 12:27 pm
JJ,
The problem with taking the money but convicting anyway is that you’d definitely want to contact law enforcement to request protection, while simultaneously using the bribe to invest in your own protection. I doubt they’d let $120k just go to waste, and they obviously know where the jurors live.
June 3rd, 2024 at 12:31 pm
Personally, I’m betting this was less about getting a not guilty plea than it was about forcing a mistrial. I’m assuming that 3 paid off jurors would be more than the backup pool.
It also makes a retrial more difficult because the government will have to keep jury information sealed and the jurors sequestered for the entire trial. That’ll make it a lot harder to find jurors that are objective AND willing to go through the trouble of sitting through the trial.
June 3rd, 2024 at 5:56 pm
I kinda think this was an opening gambit to get the jury sequestered, upon which the gentle note will be “if you ever want to go home and see your family again…you will vote to acquit.”
June 3rd, 2024 at 7:55 pm
Jury and defendants sequestered, and cell phones confiscated from the defendants for analysis. The thing that strikes me as significant is that the names and addresses of the jurors were provided to defense attorneys, at least one of whom provided that to the defendants. I can see some information about the jurors being provided so a second check can be made of the veracity of statements by jurors in their questioning, but on the flip side, we are dealing with organized crime stealing hundreds of millions of dollars, and they just might have reason to put a wrench in the spokes of this process.
Put gently, there needs to be more of a buffer against this sort of thing.
June 4th, 2024 at 2:43 pm
You can tell the Somali crime ring are amateurs at this. They totally screwed up the “That’s a nice ________ you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it” action.