Hillary's IT guy invoked the 5th 100 times, AFTER being granted immunity! (state)
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
This guy was granted immunity and still invoked the 5th 125 times in 90 minutes.
If you ever found yourself a small guy caught up in a very big game, you'd be a complete idiot to not plead the Fifth. Immunity sounds great, until a lawyer whose hourly fee is larger than your house payment starts picking it apart. Any 2nd-year law student would tell you that.
I don't care if he took advice from his mother. Most rational people see it as something to hide. If someone doesn't have something to hide, they or their lawyer doesn't tell them to "plead the 5th!" over and over again in the non-bizarro world.
There's a purpose to the Fifth. In fact, its exact purpose is to keep that sort of Star Chamber logic from reoccurring.
That's very trusting. Alternately he can plead the Fifth and not have to trust their guarantees.
I thought defendants have blanket immunity from being forced to testify by pleading the fifth. Witnesses do not I thought, and a immunity guarantee can be used to compel a witness to testify I believe. IE with immunity you no longer have a fifth amendment guarantee when testifying against someone else.
Just feeling too lazy to google it all at the moment.
It wasn't the FBI asking. Nor was it a criminal case. It was a civil court witch hunt from judicial watch, who already knew what he was going to say, but kept asking, over and over.
No lawyer in his right mind would let someone talk in a civil case, with a criminal investigation still not closed.
I'll try and explain this one more time. Pagliano has been interviewed by the FBI, it's for that interview he has been granted limited immunity. The keyword here is limited. Anything he has told them in that interview cannot be used to prosecute him unless he's lying or divulges it elsewhere. If any or all of those 125 questions were asked of him during that FBI interview it's within his best interests to tell them.
The reason he plead the fifth and the reason the judge allowed him to plead the fifth is because his immunity does not extend to those court proceedings, anything he said could of been used to prosecute him. This court hearing is a side show, what he told the FBI and how they are going to use that information is the main event.
... and a immunity guarantee can be used to compel a witness to testify I believe.
I would assume if they want him to testify in court they would have to extend it to full immunity. I would also assume his agreement includes such a stipulation.
As I mentioned before I would not be surprised if the FBI and/or Pagliano's attorney set it up this way purposely so he could plead the fifth in other court proceedings.
It wasn't the FBI asking. Nor was it a criminal case. It was a civil court witch hunt from judicial watch, who already knew what he was going to say, but kept asking, over and over.
No lawyer in his right mind would let someone talk in a civil case, with a criminal investigation still not closed.
If it's a witch hunt, it is being lead by the judge in the case that has granted Judicial Watch discovery. The judge in this case (Judge Sullivan) was appointed by President Bill Clinton.
You were saying something about a witch hunt?
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
