Posted on 03/28/2018 8:20:39 AM PDT by botsnack
The special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election revealed Tuesday night that prosecutors say they have connected former Trump deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates to a person with ties to a Russian intelligence service while Gates worked on the campaign.
That Gates and the unnamed person, who had lived in Kiev and Moscow and worked for one of Paul Manafort's companies, were in touch in September and October 2016 was "pertinent to the investigation," a court filing from prosecutors said Tuesday night.
The acknowledgment that Gates knew the person had Russian intelligence ties is alleged in a report prosecutors filed about the coming sentencing of a Dutch attorney. That attorney, Alex van der Zwaan, who worked with Gates and Manafort previously, pleaded guilty last month to lying to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators about his interactions with Gates and the unnamed person.
In an opposing 30-page memorandum also filed Tuesday evening, van der Zwaan begged for leniency and asked the judge to avoid sending him to jail next week. Instead, van der Zwaan asks to pay an "appropriate fine," according to the filing. He will be the first defendant in Mueller's probe to face sentencing, on April 3.
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Yet more spittle.
“Van der Zwaan’s criminal charge has no apparent connection to the Trump campaign aside from his contact with then-campaign aide Gates in 2016.”
Imagine that.
When I was 11 years old I shook hands with a politician who had shaken hands with John F. Kennedy, who had met Khrushchev, who was an associate of Joseph Stalin. That doesn't mean that I share any guilt for the Holodomor in Ukraine.
You delude yourself. You have had direct physical contact with the butcher of Belgrade. Guilty as charged.
Business people making contact for business purposes does not “collusion” make. I don’t any Russian company does not have someone who is “in touch” with Russian intelligence. Even that does not mean that Russian intelligence is always using them in everything they do.
Exactly
I'm sure Kevin Bacon is in this mix somewhere.
The forecast Stormy was a bust. Back to Russia, Russia, Russia!!!!
I wasn’t referring to Bill Clinton (whom I have never seen in person).
This is starting to sound like the Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
When they indict Kevin Bacon, then we know they are clueless in DoJ.. not just corrupt.
A special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election revealed Tuesday night that prosecutors say they have connected former Trump deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates to a person who delivered newspapers to Gate’s home who knew a guy who worked for a Republican staffer who once dated a woman in college who then graduated and liked to watch “The Americans” while skyping with a friend in Russia who once knew a writer who did books on Russian history while attending Harvard where she roomed with a women of third-generation ancestry who had a brother who used to get a copy of “Pravda” during the cold war who said he knew somebody that had ties to the GRU that had a great-grandfather who used to live in Ukraine while claiming to be a friend of Leon Trotsky and others with ties to a Russian intelligence service while Gates worked on the campaign.
If true, so what?
If you had you would be changed irrevocably.Left out the /s earlier. Felicitations.
It’s a race, who punches first wins, fire mueller or face impeachment anyway from made up charges if nothing else..there is no truth, just agendas that exclude the American people
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