What do you think of this lawyer's reaction to Cohen getting a 3 year jail sentence?

What struck you the most, if any, in his analysis?

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[ In my evaluation as a former federal fraud and public corruption prosecutor (and a long-time trial attorney): there is an immense amount of evidence that Trump and his business associates (in and out of his organization) have operated what in significant part is and has been a criminal enterprise for decades (its operations and its profits enabled by false statements, concealed transactions, patterns of fraud, tax evasion, and on and on).

It is almost certain that a full examination of Trump’s dealings would warrant an extensive criminal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) enterprise indictment of his organization and of Trump as an individual defendant.

There is a good argument to be made that it is a failing of our justice system (both the Manhattan DA and the SDNY USAO) that Trump has been able to operate without full investigation and criminal charges for decades, and it is only when the national spotlight has been on Trump that the criminal extent of his modus operandi has come to light.

Put simply: this is a heartening moment when we see our nation’s laws being enforced, but it is also a sad indictment of the general laxness of the application of our laws to the financial and political elite.

To me, the broader story (having seen it up close while in DOJ’s Public Integrity Section) is that the upper echelon insiders in our society are routinely getting away with actions that if committed by a common citizen would lead to criminal charges. ]

( From the NYT )