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First sentence handed down in Mueller probe (30 days)
Washington Post ^ | April 3, 2018 | Spencer S. Hsu

Posted on 04/04/2018 6:04:38 AM PDT by Zakeet

A London-based lawyer was ordered to serve 30 days in prison after a federal judge Tuesday handed down the first sentence in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Alex van der Zwaan, 33, a son-in-law of a prominent Russian-based banker, pleaded guilty Feb. 20 to lying to the FBI about his contacts in September and October of 2016 with a business associate of onetime Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and with Manafort’s deputy, former Trump aide Rick Gates. Prosecutors said van der Zwaan also destroyed emails the special counsel had requested.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; US: District of Columbia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: alexvanderzwaan; braking; districtofcolumbia; investigation; jamescomey; lisapage; mueller; peterstrzok; robertmueller; russia; sentence; specialcounsel; unitedkingdom; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost; yesterday
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Mueller and his Democrat duds cut a fat hog with this massive 30-day sentence ... !!

1 posted on 04/04/2018 6:04:38 AM PDT by Zakeet
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30 days! Gasp!! You can get that for littering.


2 posted on 04/04/2018 6:08:41 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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How much did this cost the American taxpayer for 30 days in jail? Mueller is a clown.


3 posted on 04/04/2018 6:09:50 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Zakeet

You could do worse with a drunk driving charge.


4 posted on 04/04/2018 6:11:24 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP!)
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30 days and $20,000...........What the hell for...The FBI goes after you for hours and FINALLY get their...."Gotcha"...which is no big deal anyway.

In the meantime, terrorists and shooters pull off their kills....despite the FBI being warned.

There's a damn pattern of incompetence within the FBI.

5 posted on 04/04/2018 6:16:39 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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The ‘take-away’ from this whole circus is this:

if you are ever questioned by Federal law enforcement, use one of the Hillary replies, “I don’t recall”, “I really not sure”, “I don’t remember”, “Wiped, like with a cloth?”


6 posted on 04/04/2018 6:17:09 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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“There’s a damn pattern of incompetence within the FBI.”

Maybe not.


7 posted on 04/04/2018 6:19:12 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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The ones who are working with Russia and the communist are the ones doing the investigation. Trying to protect themselves.


8 posted on 04/04/2018 6:19:51 AM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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That’s some mighty big game they’ve bagged there! (chortle)


9 posted on 04/04/2018 6:20:21 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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‘Prosecutors said van der Zwaan also destroyed emails the special counsel had requested.’

But if your name is Hillary and you destroy 33,000 emails and take a hammer to the cell phones, free pass.

Sessions’ DOJ is a joke.


10 posted on 04/04/2018 6:22:13 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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Better yet, don’t talk to them at all. They apparently do not record their interviews. F’ers can lie about what you said.


11 posted on 04/04/2018 6:22:42 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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Related...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3644593/posts


12 posted on 04/04/2018 6:24:36 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA/KAG!!!)
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To: Ken H

And then a superior can make you change your lie to the lies he wants to include


13 posted on 04/04/2018 6:27:17 AM PDT by digger48
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To: Sasparilla

That’s 30 more days than hilz or B.O. or even Teddy got.


14 posted on 04/04/2018 6:27:28 AM PDT by Leep (Make The Swamp Small Again!)
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How much do you think it cost your and I for Mueller to get that 30 day sentence?


15 posted on 04/04/2018 6:27:41 AM PDT by DaveA37
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Next, they’ll get a son of a brother of Trump’s uncle for jaywalking.


16 posted on 04/04/2018 6:31:04 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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30 days in prison, or 30 days in jail? In Washington State I believe prison is reserved for people convicted and sentenced to more than one year.

30 days in jail is like a DUI sentence, it sounds sort of basic.


17 posted on 04/04/2018 6:56:46 AM PDT by Jack Black
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There’s a damn pattern of incompetence within the FBI.

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For decades.


18 posted on 04/04/2018 7:05:57 AM PDT by Psalm 144 ("For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there." - LBJ)
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To: Ken H

Better yet, don’t talk to them at all. They apparently do not record their interviews. F’ers can lie about what you said.

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I’ve read about incidents in the past where they drop the idea when a potential victim insists on recording the interview, with counsel.


19 posted on 04/04/2018 7:08:34 AM PDT by Psalm 144 ("For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there." - LBJ)
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30 days! Gasp!!

That was for his hairstyle.

And he got off easy, on that one.


20 posted on 04/04/2018 7:17:07 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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