Bam Bam Baklava
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So then what's this pic about? Conspiracy theory?
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Patriots owner, Deflategate judge mingle at party
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So then what's this pic about? Conspiracy theory?
teruterubozu
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I don't know. I thought Ron Perlman had hair and a beard.
DoktorEvil
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Yes. Post decision. The NFL chose to go to that district and got that judge. Although Kraft and the Patriots were not involved, Brady had no say over the Judge because where the NFL chose to go.
Not to mention ... he is a fricken federal judge. He does NOT care about who wins, he protects the laws.
Blame Bill Clinton, since he appointed him.
Empyrean Heaven
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Maybe in 2012, but to blow an undefeated season?
Netherscourge
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Bob Kraft had Sonny smash the photographer's camera after the picture of him and Berman together was taken.
So, they had to use a different stock photo from the party.
EASTC0AST_GH05T
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lol this is too funny.
Ninja Scooter
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I think it's Judge Reinhold
Yep. The people in the picture are literally laughing at the dolts who fell for it.
Yep, the Patriots taping and PEDs or whatever else you're thinking, is isolated from the rest of the league.
Still pretty sure it's mostly salt and scandal.
(and I'm from the south and have zero allegance to the Patriots)
I think you missed the point. Given some of the other people there, it seems the judge was out of his league chatting it up with New York's elite of the elite. And so soon after some event regarding somebody else at the party. Seems somebody invited him. Hmm, I wonder who would invite a federal judge to an elite party...
That aside there is a reason they don't pick jurors who know the defendant in court. This whole thing reeks.
Oh yeah for sure. Not to mention the Patriots and Brady actually picked that judge and paid him money to ignore the well thought out evidence the NFL supplied.
First of all the venue, and therefore the judge, were selected by the NFL.
Second, Robert Kraft is not a member of the NFLPA and was not involved in the legal proceedings between the league and the NFLPA.
Third, the proceeding is over. Jurors are allowed to hang out with anyone they want after the trial.
You think Kraft could have influenced the decision to file in the 2nd District? I know ridiculous trolling is your thing in these threads, but that would be a whole new league for you.
Chezzymann
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Doesn't this judge also have brady on his fantasy team?
PeregrinSe7en
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yes
also : "bu...bu...bu... teh giants owner is der too! see see! innocent!"
as if that absolves the pats of evil doing.
He actually drafted him earlier before the ruling when his value was lower when he knew he was going to absolve Brady of the suspension so he could get a good deal.
I dunno, according to the legions of Pats fans posting in the original Deflategate thread, Kraft runs the NFL and the league does whatever he wants.
Talk to your boys, not me.
Even for you this is pretty lame.
I didn't realize I had a fan club. Where are my dues?
Alligatorjandro
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Money well spent
They picked the courts, not the Judge. The Judge is assigned.
How does being at the same place give the appearance of impropriety? That doesn't make any sense. The ruling is straight forward and obviously correct, legally speaking. There were no questionable actions during the proceeding and, again, this was a judge sitting in the court selected by the league.
It's clickbait nonsense.
LOL. They have an article with the headline "Patriots owner, ‘Deflategate’ judge mingle at party" and lead off with a picture of the Patriots owner and two other people mingling at a party. No one knows what the judge looks like so it doesn't matter that he is not in the picture. This is amazing. 
Zantetsuken
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Would like to see the judge's bank account now.
No wonder a sociopathic serial killer like Aaron Hernandez got along with his teammates so well...
It's fun to cite an image that can't spell deception correctly
I know you're joking, but he really didn't. Major loner, that always used to confuse me, makes sense now.
ITT: no one knows what that phrase means apparently.
And they weren't just at the same place. Im sure if that's all it was there wouldn't be a story.
Please stick to this. I can only take your old man ramblings for so long.
They were just at the same well attended party. The story is clickbait.
It was an attempt on my part to match the stupid inherent in the story.
NintendoGal
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I smiled. I'm too broke for dues though.
Patriots stole one of the letter E's by having some low level employee hack into Adobe and manipulate the picture.
Slayer-33
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Patriots owner, Deflategate judge mingle at party
Ron Perelman (from left), Robert Kraft and Jack Welch
New trickle down economics pic? New trickle down economics pic.
Random Painted HIghway
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It gives that impression to laypeople whose opinion is of no importance and whose basis of knowledge for evaluating such things is questionable at best.
Seahawks fans get complimentary membership
It gets intercepted at the mailbox.
Which is almost everyone making it very important. Hence it's generally advised to avoid even the appearance.
Remember when the Cardinals won the Super Bowl?
It implies a dual relationship between them, an ethical violation for many professionals.
Why did I even have to type that out.
If KHarvey16 clears my firm of any wrong doing in a 100 million dollar law suit, and a few days later he's seen laughing it up with me at my super swank party then yeah people will think it was fishy as fuck, as they should.
People can act like its normal all they want, but the judge should have politely declined, especially since he just ruled on the damn case of the man's party he is now going to attend with all those really wealthy and influential people.
Hell at my job, if anything even looks close to fishy when it comes to gifts, lunches, dinners, i have to run it all through HR to protect my ass and make sure no lawsuits or any kind of bias could be said I showed. It's how its done. I guess unless you're a federal judge and a super rich football owner.
There is no appearance. We don't need to accommodate the lowest common denominator here, we can assume a basic level of intelligence and information. It's a clickbait story trying to create news where there literally is none.
There is absolutely no ethical violation here. The proceedings are over and they didn't even involve Kraft to begin with.
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