Neither Comey or even the FBI is mentioned once in the article. The article states that US Attorney Preet Bhrarara's office made the settlement deal and he worked in the DOJ under Loretta Lynch.
At the heart of the matter...without Russian government involvement, what you have is the Russian billionaire core...sitting out in Cyprus, that has accusations of money-laundering and this US law (freshly on the books) that was being used by Preet Bhrarara to dig at the money-crew.
For whatever reason, they think it’s in the best interest to give a visa to this gal and let her into the US to discuss matters. She’s only there to talk over lessening the public law, and getting the money-laundering aspect tossed out. I get the impression that she was getting nowhere with Bhrarara or the Justice Department....so she figured to go and test the waters with the Trump team and see if she could entice them into a special deal.
We are back to stage one...it’s not Russian government involvement, and there’s no hacking theme to this story. Just accusations of money-laundering, which was all created by the Obama Administration...NOT the Trump folks.
No kidding. The US Attorneys work through th AG. FBI personnel often work with them on investigation, but they have no say in the actual prosecution or settlement terms.
You are right — I forgot about using the title of the article as the title of the thread. The way the posting is set up I thought the title came later.
The meetings between the Trumps and the Russian lawyer were organized by the DOJ as part of a plea agreement to settle a money-laundering case with a Russian. Those meetings were also used to justify getting a FISA warrant to spy on on the Trumps. Yes, Preet’s NYC office was where the settlement took place, but all of this is under the DOJ and the FBI had to be involved because of the money-laundering aspect and the FISA warrant.
The mistitled thread is still on top of the sidebar.
I don’t appreciate this either. Was there any mention of Comey in the article?