🍁 In case you hadn't heard, Canada had an election yesterday. Their current Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, won again. I think this is his third term.

However, his party didn't win the majority, so not much will get done in Canada. Which, for an unbroken nation, is a good thing.

I don't know much about Canada, or Canadians (I'm a dumb guy from the United States), but I think they're in better shape than we are, politics-wise.

Hell, overall, I think they're better off than we are. So here's to Canada...

In other news, one of #TFG's attorneys let some cats out of the bag yesterday. He was bellyaching about the "millions of pages of documents" they had to wade through and how much of it came from "the basement of a co-conspirator."

That seems like an admission of guilt, no?

Read about it here. And there ⬇⬇⬇

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Trump Org Prosecutors Find New Evidence—in a Basement

Prosecutors have discovered a tranche of evidence in the basement of a co-conspirator in the Trump Organization tax fraud case, a defense lawyer for indicted chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg revealed in court on Monday, with the attorney also signaling that more shoes are yet to drop in New York’s ongoing investigation.

“We have strong reason to believe there could be other indictments coming,” Weisselberg’s lawyer, Bryan C. Skarlatos, said in Manhattan criminal court on Monday.

Skarlatos also referenced a private conversation that Weisselberg—along with his defense lawyers and prosecutors—had with the judge before proceedings were open to the public, revealing that prosecutors had discovered tax documents related to Donald Trump’s company in the basement of an unnamed co-conspirator.

It’s unclear who that co-conspirator might be, but according to two sources close to the investigation, prosecutors have been more closely scrutinizing Matthew Calamari, a Trump bodyguard who rose through the ranks to become the company’s chief operating officer. Others have theorized that it might be Jeff McConney, the company controller who has long served as Weisselberg’s deputy—and who has already testified before the grand jury.

Weisselberg and the Trump Organization were indicted on June 30 in New York State court and charged with criminal tax fraud, falsifying business records, grand larceny, and scheming to defraud the government. In the indictment, prosecutors alleged that the Trump Organization ran a 15-year scheme in which it paid high-level executives a huge chunk of their real salaries “off the books.”

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