Attorney says Roy Moore supporters offered him $10,000 to drop client who accused the Senate candida

[herding cats]

Source: Washington Post

BIRMINGHAM — 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.


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[rainin]

1. And suddenly no one knows Lantrip and Bert Davi. They are coffee boys. n/t

[George II]

2. That is a campaign finance violation. Hopefully a DA gets his hands on this.

[herding cats]

4. It seems the federal prosecutor there didn't care.

Also, Sexton said he reported the incident to a federal prosecutor in Alabama. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Posey told Sexton in a Dec. 5 email that the events Sexton had described by phone did not appear to constitute a federal crime.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to comment.

[erronis]

3. I enjoy the way DU truncated the title

"Attorney says Roy Moore supporters offered him $10,000 to drop client who accused the Senate candida"

Of course Roy Moore would be a primary vector for candida. Probably likes it so much he took some of it back home!

Maybe we can just label all repug wannabes candidas.

Not sure Voltaire would like this use. But then again he was a man about town.

[herding cats]

5. I laughed when it posted like that.

It thought, huh, looks like DUs software has as dim an opinion of Moore as I do.

[McCamy Taylor]

6. This is so illegal and immoral and unethical.

There need to be charges brought.

[magicarpet]

7. But.... But.... They are devout believers of Almighty God and fear his wrath...

..... they could never do anything evil or corrupt.

Praise the Lord and praise Judge Roy Moore.