Roy Moore supporters offered accuser's attorney $10,000 if he dropped the case

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/attorney-says-roy-moore-supporters-offered-him-10000-to-drop-client-who-accused-the-senate-candidate-of-sexual-impropriety/2018/03/23/6d875f2c-02e3-11e8-93f5-53a3a47824e8_story.html

Days after a woman accused U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual impropriety, two Moore supporters approached her attorney with an unusual request.
They asked lawyer Eddie Sexton to drop the woman as a client and say publicly that he did not believe her. The damaging statement would be given to Breitbart News, then run by former White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon.
In exchange, Sexton said in recent interviews, the men offered to pay him $10,000 and promised to introduce him to Bannon and others in the nation’s capital. Parts of Sexton’s account are supported by recorded phone conversations, text messages and people in whom he confided at the time.
The effort to undermine Leigh Corfman’s allegations — beginning on Nov. 13, a month before the election — shows how far some of Moore’s most fervent supporters were willing to go to salvage an Alabama campaign that many hoped would propel a nationwide populist movement and solidify Bannon’s image as a political kingmaker.

It's a very long article going in depth into the investigation.

[Helix Snake]

Is this not illegal as fuck because if it isn't it should be

[BuffaloHops]

Rules only matter when it comes to those dirty dang liberals.

[Xion21]

It seems dangerously close to things like jury tampering and witness tampering which are extremely illegal, but there isn't technically a case being tried at this time. So I'm not sure. It's scummy as hell, that's for sure, but what do you expect from someone with "Roy Moore supporter" before their name.

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I have no idea if it meets the standard of illegal conduct, but even though I'm not a lawyer I'm pretty confident that it would've been completely unethical for the lawyer to have accepted the bribe.

If you can just pay off every lawyer your accusers try to hire, you're effectively bribing the prosecution, and that seems like it'd count as obstruction of justice or something.

[UprightBlue]

The best part about this is the fact that it potentially implicates Rand Paul as being involved in this since he was apparently talking with the people trying to bribe the lawyer.

[ThigkHighSuccubi]

Illegal or not that lawyer would've been disbarred in an instant if he accepted that.