How Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann's offer to an oligarch could boomerang on DOJ

The Hill ^ | 07/22/19 | John Solomon

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The team investigating collusion was itself colluding!

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Likewise, key evidence that the DOJ used to indict Firtash on corruption charges in 2014 was falling apart. Two central witnesses were in the process of recanting testimony, and a document the FBI portrayed as bribery evidence inside Firtash’s company was exposed as a hypothetical slide from an American consultant’s PowerPoint presentation, according to court records I reviewed.

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The FBI’s incompetence saves us from becoming a police state.

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Thank god for John Solomon and Sara Carter.

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Mueller will cancel his testimony.

[Roccus]

The team investigating collusion was itself colluding!

Sounds a lot like COUP-LUSION

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• Mueller Set to Breathe New Life into the Russia Hoax

[tired&retired]

This is HUGE. Trump will be on this like .....

[DrDude]

Instead of charging AW, they decided to back him and pay him handsomely. What a scumbag!

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Can we all say PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT?

[Roccus]

Mueller will cancel his testimony.

He has already said he will testify ONLY to the report itself......NOTHING else.

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He is on the hook for one heck of a verbal beating Wednesday.

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We’ll see.

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CIRCA 2017---FIRTASH TRIED TO BRIBE COMEY SAYS CYBERBERKUT LEAK

Kiev, Ukraine. Documents are emerging that implicate Ukrainian oligarch and Poroshenko partner Dmitry Firtash in trying to bribe US Justice Department officials, including FBI Director James Comey into declining prosecution of his person and Arseny Yatsenyuk on corruption charges in the United States. The Ukrainian oligarch, Dimitry Firtash, spent almost $800,000 on lobbying on behalf of trying to avoid prosecution of himself and Arseny Yatsenyuk in the United States, as outlined in secret FBI documents recently hacked by CyberBerkut.

“Dimitry Firtash had transferred $800,000 to the account of influential, as he believed, US members of Congress two weeks before the presidential elections in the United States. By that time, Firtash had already spent $1,645,000 on their services,” the documents say. Also specified in the secret documents that the FBI believes Lanny Davis has lobbied the interests of Dimitry Firtash. “Davis is a political expert, publicist, lobbyist and Special Counsel to former President, Bill Clinton. Davis was entrusted with bribing select members of the house and senate, in desperate efforts to avoid prosecution on pending corruption charges Firtash has outstanding in the USA. In 2016, Davis used Bill Clinton to access Attorney General Loretta Lynch, with the idea of pulling Comey off the Ukrainians busy bribing US congress. Firtash signed an agreement with the Davis group on advice of Arseny Yatsenyuk. “The service package included legal representation, investigation, and collection of evidence in favor of the defense and correction of inaccuracies and distortions in the media concerning the pending federal charges against the Ukrainian oligarch. The cost of this package was $100,000 per month.” the FBI documents reveal. The attempts to bribe FBI Director Comey by Davis cost the Group DF (diversified international group of companies of Dmytro Firtash) over $1.5 million dollars. “In addition, Davis obliged Firtash to pay an extra $250,000 for the consulting services of Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, Paul Manafort,” according to the FBI papers.

Two weeks before the American presidential elections, the company of the Ukrainian oligarch transferred $80,000 to the account of Davis Goldberg & Galper PLLC, which was created by Lanny Davis only six months prior to this. It is unknown if the cash was intended directly for Comey or if it was additional “grease” for trying to get Lynch to clear Firtash and Yatsenyuk from federal charges, while America’s focus was on the national elections.

Other documents in the CyberBerkut FBI hack are related to Firtash’s corruption, Firtash is accused of paying a $18.5 million bribe in exchange for a license on the development of titanium deposits in India. The other documents concentrate on Poroshenko’s anxiety about being arrested by NABU or the FBI. His greatest fear, according to the documents, was being taken to the USA on criminal charges.

SOURCE https://en.news-front.info/2017/05/27/firtash-tried-to-bribe-comey-says-cyberberkut-leak/

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Yes, thank God for the work these two are doing and have already done.

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Nothing else?

Once Mueller starts talking, he doesn’t get to pick the topics

Will Mueller start to cry if it gets too hot in the kitchen? Hope he has Weissmann close

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The FBI’s incompetence saves us from becoming a police state.

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Being an incompetent cop in police state means you never have to apologize for anything. Incompetent police state cops are still dangerous.

[Dawgreg]

Will we ever see that sorry SOB in jail? His misconduct goes way back to Enron and Arthur Anderson...hope Sidney Powell sends him a summons now that she’s Gen. Flynn’s attorney. Weissman is the lowest of the low.....

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...Firtash’s lawyers also offered the Austrian court evidence of alleged prosecutorial wrongdoing.
A key document submitted to Austrian authorities to support Firtash’s extradition was portrayed by DOJ as having come from Firtash’s corporate files and purported to show he sanctioned a bribery scheme in India. In fact, the document was created by the McKinsey consulting firm as part of a hypothetical ethics presentation for the Boeing Co. and had no connection to Firstash’s firm.
Moreover, McKinsey claims in an official statement that it had no knowledge of a bribery scheme by Firtash, and the PowerPoint’s use of the phrase “bribery payments” never came from Firtash or his company and were, instead, hypothetical “assumptions by McKinsey about standard business practices in India,” according to the new Austrian court filing.
Firtash’s U.S. legal team told me it alerted Weissmann to DOJ’s false portrayal of the McKinsey document in 2017, but he downplayed the concerns and refused to alert the Austrian court. The document was never withdrawn as evidence, even after the New York Times published a story last December questioning its validity.
“Submitting a false and misleading document to a foreign sovereign and its courts for an extradition decision is not only unethical but also flouts the comity of trust necessary for that process where judicial systems rely only on documents to make that decision,” Firtash’s American legal team wrote in a statement to me. “DOJ’s refusal to rescind the document after being specifically told it is false and misleading is an egregious violation of U.S. and international law.” ...

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Weissman is the lowest of the low.....

Lift up whale sh!t on the bottom of the ocean and you’ll find Weissman.