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EXCLUSIVE: Human Rights Activist Files RICO Suit Against Fusion GPS Founders
The Daily Caller ^ | 5/22/2018 | Chuck Ross

Posted on 05/22/2018 12:57:45 PM PDT by detective

A prominent human rights activist is suing two of the founders of Fusion GPS and several Venezuelan businessmen under a statute usually associated with the Mafia.

Thor Halvorssen, the president of the Human Rights Foundation, claims that Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, two former Wall Street Journal reporters who founded Fusion, engaged in a conspiracy to retaliate against him for blowing the whistle on one of Fusion’s clients, a Venezuelan power plant company called Derwick Associates.

The two Fusion founders were hired to produce a dossier and a media campaign “to depict Halvorrsen as a pedophile, heroin addict, and embezzler of the Foundation’s money,” reads Halvorssen’s lawsuit, which he filed under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) statute.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: fusiongps; rico
“Fusion is basically a pen-for-hire shop, whose owners are prepared to concoct completely spurious stories that are fed to media contacts developed over years of legitimate work in reputable outlets,” Boyd told The Daily Caller last year.

Halvorssen claims that Fusion GPS targeted him on behalf of Derwick because of an investigation he started in 2011 into Derwick’s contracts with the Venezuelan government. Halvorssen, who was born in Venezuela, says he uncovered a multi-billion dollar kickback scheme involving Derwick executives and Venezuelan officials.

1 posted on 05/22/2018 12:57:45 PM PDT by detective
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To: detective

But the Clinton Foundation hasn’t been the subject of a RICO action. Yet.


2 posted on 05/22/2018 1:03:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: detective

Grind them into dust.


3 posted on 05/22/2018 1:04:20 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: detective
Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, two former Wall Street Journal reporters who founded Fusion...

Either they changed their ethical standards when they formed this company, or this is what their standards have been at the Wall Street Journal.

4 posted on 05/22/2018 1:10:32 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: detective

I’m running seriously low on popcorn and I need more screens to keep up with all this.


5 posted on 05/22/2018 1:13:25 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: detective

Excellent! Simpson needs to be hanged next to Brennan.


6 posted on 05/22/2018 1:46:42 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Stefan Halper Stefan Halper Stefan Halper Stefan Halper Stefan Halper)
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Soros company?

By the way , this is how islam started, with writers for hire of the Kalif who started writing all kinds of crap. Fakenews wages are kalifatic like death


7 posted on 05/22/2018 2:06:50 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: detective

There are a great many people around these days who don’t have enough of any degree of significance to do.


8 posted on 05/22/2018 2:51:18 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Its good to remember that Fusion was on contract to the Russians and DNC at the same time. And a spouse of Fusion’s “Russia” expert was one of the main DOJ guys in the Russia investigation.

This allowed Russians, DNC, and DOJ (but I repeat myself) to be in the same building at the same time. Its all rather incestuous. It also makes me wonder how much they took in from Russia, and how the $9 million they took from DNC got divided up.


9 posted on 05/22/2018 3:42:53 PM PDT by marron
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