Posted on 12/05/2017 9:36:25 AM PST by Kaslin
The Department of Justice released a report Tuesday morning detailing the cost of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the 2016 presidential election.
"A Statement of Expenditures has been released publicly summarizing the financial activity of the Special Counsel’s Office for the period May 17, 2017, through September 30, 2017, following a review by Justice Management Division’s Internal Review and Evaluation Office of the business processes related to budget and expenses of the Special Counsel’s Office," Special Counsel Spokesman Joshua Stueve said. "The Justice Management Division will conduct a similar review every six months. The next Statement of Expenditures will be released after March 31, 2018".
According to DOJ the numbers are on par with a budget previously approved by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in May, when the Special Counsel was appointed.
"In the year ahead, the Department will continue to dedicate and leverage resources to maintain strong program and financial management controls. Management takes its program and financial accountability seriously and is dedicated to ensuring that funds are used in a responsible and transparent manner," the report states.
So far, four people have been indicted in Mueller's investigation: Former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort, businessman Rick Gates, campaign volunteer George Papadopoulos and former White House National Security Advisor General Mike Flynn. Papadopoulos and Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Manafort and Gates have entered not guilty pleas in defense of a number of business related charges.
Why doesn’t Trump just say, OK, you’ve had a year. You’re done now and fire him. Then get a new prosecutor to go after Hillary and Obama? If this was a special prosecutor going after Hillary for a year, he’d be dead.
Anyone who thinks that Comey is a good guy and that his firing could be a criminal act starts out as partisan and deluded.
Wth does Deutsche Bank have to do with Russia? Shut this dangerous nonsense down.
I found it reprehensible that Secy of State Hillary routinely sent her itinerary to the Clinton Foundation——which is an actual crime. The Secretary’s itinerary is top secret-—for safety reasons.
Having the itinerary gave conniving Billybooboo an opportunity to figure out the next global insider deals to pursue to make the Clintons richer.
In effect, Hillary sent State Secrets (those protecting Americans’ safety and security) to a criminal organization....the nefarious Clinton Foundation.
In Dinesh D’Sousa’s “Hillary’s America,” he talks about his conversations with criminals in jail....and of the practiced criminal’s tactic of deny, deny, deny.
Seems like this has worked very well for Clinton criminal team. It explains why she comes out with a book that blames everyone but herself for her loss.
Methinks the Clinton Foundation used the hate-filled uber-liberal Southern Poverty Law Center as their model for hiding money and pretending to do good.
But the Clintons surpassed the SPLC in the depth and cunningness of their corruption and criminal success.
The Clinton Foundation is set-up in Canada to avoid any financial disclosure of who their donors are. Young Billy found out all about Canadian secrecy while he was up there dodging the draft.
As Secretary of State Hillary sat at the pivot point to push the “charity” by trading State Dept favor money from foreign governments. The take down of the Libyan government increase those “charitable” donations by extorting dictators as they did in Morocco.
Then there was the uranium deal to enable the Russians to own a corner on America’s uranium supply.
Where the devilish Clintons shine is exploiting natural disasters to get rich quick. Cleverest trick of all (and aided by Barkie Mau Mau Boobamba) was to hijack relief efforts in that nation’s catastrophic earthquake..... to use relief money to buttress crony companies like mobile operator Digicel while throwing peanuts to the starving people of Haiti.
Add it up and there’s no contest. The Clinton Foundation is the world’s number one criminal “fake-do-gooder” foundation in existence.
I would enjoying seeing all of Robert Mueller’s financial transactions — both above board and under. I would also enjoy all the exchanges/transactions with Clinton, obama, and Comey.
No court in this land would allow him to prosecute in this case with all his deep ties.
Here is the wet dream of the Dems -— take control of the House so they get speaker, and impeach both Trump and Pence concurrently. Their speaker, Hillary Clinton, becomes Pres. If they can’t impeach Trump, I fear that they would do something to him.
Shut this circus down, fire Mueller. This is nonsense and has nothing to do with Russian interference in our election.
For those familiar with how Fed employees charge their time, you will know that there are thousands more staff hours being applied to this effort than are being charged as such.
“Oh, that just a normal part of their routine job, whether this case existed or not.”
LIE!
As I’ve said previously, although we have seen a trickle of penny ante stuff from the Team Mueller Democrats, they are totally on track to release the mother lode sometime in 2018 and as close to the elections as can affect maximum damage.
Not that there will be anything really there, but it will all sound catastrophic like what they did to Casper Weinberger.
Watch.
I smell BS. The real number is likely four to five times that high.
You can absolutely bank on that. There is no way that the $3 million figure is total and all inclusive. Additionally, what was the reporting cutoff date?
Well there's a nice, specific expense category.
I’d like to see Mueller’s salary confiscated. He’ll never face any anything for the crap he’s put everyone through.
Deep freezers full of money to basement while new house being built.
Enough is enough of this farce !
Muller needs to be to told to sh*t or get off the pot!
If he refuses to back down Trump should arrest him and try him for sedition.
SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER’S TASK FORCE
CHARTER: Investigate unfounded allegations of President Trump/Russia collusion during the 2016 election
PROCEDURAL RULES: Open ended investigation, no supervision, no budget restraints
COST TO DATE: Approx $3.2 million dollars of hard earned taxpayer money spent in 4½ months
PRODUCT: Obtained through entrapment one guilty plea from Michael Flynn for lying to the FBI on a matter unrelated to the primary allegations
This is just a slush fund to the democRAT party.
Another explanation is that Hillary is a classic (Narcissist)....the same goes for Obama in spades....
Trump’s impeachment?
Priceless.
Are the hookers included under “contractual services?”
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