"Trust me," said the judge, L. Priscilla Hall of State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, speaking from the bench, "this is basically a statement case".
The statement Case released makes it clear just how hard he had resisted stepping down: "This decision was personally very difficult for me, as I would love to serve as chairman of this great company for many years to come".
The final draft email of the embassy statement (Case No. F-2014-20439 DoC05777696777696), from Cheryl Mills to Hillary, had all the necessary diplomatic ducks in a row to get Martelly into the runoff.
Inadvertence and bad memory are valid defenses in false-statement cases, but could Kushner seriously contend that a meeting set up with an e-mail heading "Russian – Clinton – private and confidential" simply slipped his mind?
Overall, just 5% of the false-statements cases investigated led to jail time.
And it turns out that, since 1986, fewer than a third of the false-statements cases brought to prosecutors were actually tried at all.
False statement cases currently carry a maximum sentence of 10 years.
Puffy-coated tourists from all walks of life and every corner of the earth haul out their lumbering iPads -- fluorescent statement cases flapping into the heads of onlookers.
Some of the supporting documents include W-2G form, cancelled checks, bank statements in case of withdrawals, credit card statements in case of cash advances as well as other wagering documents from a gambling establishment.
The same pattern was found for diabetes and CHD, except that for diabetes two statements concerning case GM were negative compared to 24 statements with positive directionality, and for CHD (case AR) one statements was negative whereas 31 were positive.
