Roy Moore supporter takes 5th under questioning about alleged bribery of accuser

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/roy-moore-supporter-takes-5th-dozens-of-times-under-questioning-about-alleged-bribery-attempt/2019/03/11/6ae52c00-440e-11e9-9726-50f151ab44b9_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.927ea89542dd

A Roy Moore supporter refused to answer questions about an alleged bribery attempt aimed at boosting Moore’s 2017 campaign for a U.S. Senate seat from Alabama, claiming dozens
of times while under oath that truthful responses might incriminate him, according to court records released Monday.

In the final weeks of the failed Senate bid, Bert Davi and another Moore supporter approached the lawyer for Leigh Corfman, who had accused Moore of touching her sexually when she
was 14 and he was 32. The men offered the lawyer $10,000 to drop Corfman as a client and issue a statement to Breitbart News questioning her credibility, the lawyer previously told
The Washington Post. 

The lawyer, Eddie Sexton, declined to make the statement. In a Post story in March about the effort, an account that relied in part on audio and text messages, Moore and his campaign
denied involvement, and Davi denied wrongdoing.

A transcript of a deposition filed in court Monday shows that, under questioning during closed-door testimony in November, Davi asserted his constitutional right not to incriminate
himself 65 times when asked about the alleged offer. In a brief phone interview Monday, asked why he invoked his right against self-incrimination, Davi said, “It’s simple.” He paused,
then added: “You know what? I’m not going to comment.”

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In a brief phone interview Monday, asked why he invoked his right against self-incrimination, Davi said, “It’s simple.” He paused, then added: “You know what? I’m not going to comment.”

Damnit, almost got him

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I remember this. I made the thread about it when it originally happened. https://forum.facepunch.com/f/pd/bslzd/Roy-Moore-supporters-offered-accuser-s-attorney-10-000-if-he-dropped-the-case/1/

And this is how the WaPo article of the day opened:
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.

I knew this would be coming back, and there's a particularly good reason why those phone conversation recordings and texts will be of interest:

There's also this spicy little detail buried in the original story:
Sexton was initially reluctant to talk publicly about the alleged offer, because the men — Lantrip and Bert Davi, business partners in a small construction firm — are his clients in an unrelated court case, a dispute over a real estate venture. Sexton decided to speak publicly after repeated requests over months from Post reporters, who contacted him after obtaining one of the recordings.
Sexton vouched for the authenticity and accuracy of the recordings and messages.

His own clients on a different case attempted to bribe him out of an unrelated case for political purposes. And he recorded their calls because he recognized the ethical atom bomb they were asking him to arm and detonate.

And this kind of good ol' boy cronyism shit is why Alabama (and a select few other red states) is an international punchline to a joke the rest of America takes to the gut.

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Remember when Trump blasted people for taking the 5th. Now here's another guy doing it. I think Roger Stone also did at one point