People with ‘sterling character’ don’t lie on mortgage applications.
The charges were brought by the DOJ. A Grand Jury of her peers brought the indictment.
What are you talking about? Since when is a grand jury ever been known to constitute as a “jury” of the Target’s peers? On what planet?
A “jury of” their peers is in reference to a formal court proceeding involving a jury that will decide guilt/innocence/fault/liabiltiy/ in which the venire panel is subjected to questioning by the defendant for purposes of discovering biases, prejudices, favoritism, lack of partiality, can be fair, consider the evidence objectively, revealing people favorable, unfavorable, or neutral in towards the defendant and facts of the case.
That is NOT what transpires in a grand jury.
I’ve presented to grand juries before.
The statement a prosecutor can obtain an indictment for a ham sandwich is extraordinarily accurate! At a GJ defense attorney is not present to reveal to the jury exculpatory evidence or evidence detrimental to the government’s case and the government isn’t obligated to do so in a GJ, and the prosecutor can and would withhold damaging evidence from a GJ if the goal is to obtain an indictment and almost guarantee an indictment by withhold that evidence.
Conversely, when I do not want the GJ to indict for various reasons, I provide all the damning evidence to the government’s case and may strongly hint to the GJ not to indict if they think I couldn’t obtain a guilty verdict at trial.
The Comey and Letitia indictments have led to an unexpected phenomenon, considerable numbers of MAGA, Trump supporters, and Republicans, have illuminated their knowledge of the GJ process is anemic and inaccurate, as they hastily rush to defend the veracity of GJ indictments that are very easily attainable for prosecutors.