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Title: Judge Orders Mueller To Prove Russian Company Meddled In Election
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URL Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018 ... ssian-company-meddled-election
Published: Oct 20, 2018
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2018-10-20 22:08:32 by nolu chan
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Judge Orders Mueller To Prove Russian Company Meddled In Election by Tyler Durden A Washington federal judge on Thursday ordered special counsel Robert Mueller's team to clarify election meddling claims lodged against a Russian company operated by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Bloomberg. Concord Management and Consulting, LLC. - one of three businesses indicted by Mueller in February along with 13 individuals for election meddling, surprised the special counsel in April when they actually showed up in court to fight the charges. Mueller's team tried to delay Concord from entering the case, arguing that thee Russian company not been properly served, however Judge Dabney Friedrich denied the request - effectively telling prosecutors 'well, they're here.' Concord was accused in the indictment of supporting the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian 'troll farm' accused of trying to influence the 2016 US election. On Thursday, Judge Freidrich asked Mueller's prosecutors if she should assume they aren't accusing Concord of violating US laws applicable to election expenditures and failure to register as a foreign agent. Concord has asked Dabney to throw out the charges - claiming that Mueller's office fabricated a crime, and that there is no law against interfering in elections. On Monday, Friedrich raised questions over whether the special counsel's office could prove a key element of their case - saying that it was "hard to see" how allegations of Russian influence were intended to interfere with US government operations vs. simply "confusing voters," reports law.com. “You still have to show knowledge of the agencies and what they do. How do you do that?” Friedrich asked. Kravis, a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, argued that the government needed only to show that Concord Management and the other defendants were generally aware that the U.S. government “regulates and monitors” foreign participation in American politics. That awareness, Kravis said, could be inferred from the Russians’ alleged creation of fake social media accounts that appeared to be run by U.S. citizens and “computer infrastructure” intended to mask the Russian origin of the influence operation. “That is deception that is directed at a higher level,” Kravis said. Kravis appeared in court with Michael Dreeben, a top Justice Department appellate lawyer on detail to the special counsel’s office. -law.com Concord pleaded not guilty in May. Their attorney, Eric Dubelier - a partner at Reed Smith, has described the election meddling charges as "make believe," arguing on Monday that Mueller's indictment against Concord "doesn't charge a crime." "There is no statute of interfering with an election. There just isn’t," said Dubelier, who added that Mueller's office alleged a "made-up crime to fit the facts they have." Dubelier added that the case against Concord Management is the first in US history "where anyone has ever been charged with defrauding the Justice Department" through their failure to register under FARA.
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Sat, 10/20/2018 - 14:35 According to the judge’s request for clarification, the Justice Department has argued that it doesn’t have to show that Concord had a legal duty to report its expenditures to the Federal Election Commission. Rather, the allegation is that the company knowingly engaged in deceptive acts that precluded the FEC, or the Justice Department, from ascertaining whether they had broken the law. -Bloomberg
During a 90-minute hearing, Friedrich questioned prosecutor Jonathan Kravis about how the government would be able to show the Russian defendants were aware of the Justice Department and FEC’s functions and then deliberately sought to skirt them.
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#1. To: nolu chan (#0)
"election meddling" What a crock of Red herring shyte. "Our Boy", AKA Donaldo the magnificent, is up to his flabby chins in the Chabad Mafia; and THAT is who benefits from the DOJ being gridlocked into a bipartisan cluster frack.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PRIOR TO THE DIVERSIONARY BULLSHIT, THIS WAS A THREAD ABOUT THE RUSSIAN MEDDLING LITIGATION WHICH HAS COLLAPSED IN COURT. As for the NPC diversionary bullshit.... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chabad CHABAD Founded in 1775 by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the name "Chabad" is a Hebrew acronym for Chochmah, Binah, Da'at: "Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge", which represent the intellectual underpinnings of the movement.The name Lubavitch is the Yiddish name of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth village Lubowicze (Lyubavichi) now in Russia, where the movement’s leaders lived for over 100 years. In the 1930s, the sixth Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, moved the center of the Chabad movement from Russia to Poland. After the outbreak of World War Two, the sixth Rebbe moved the center of the movement to the United States. In 1951, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson became the seventh Chabad Rebbe. The seventh Rebbe transformed the movement into one of the largest and most widespread Jewish movements in the world today. Under Rabbi Menachem Mendel's leadership, the movement established a network of more than 3,600 institutions that provide religious, social and humanitarian needs in over 1,000 cities, spanning 100 countries[9] and all 50 American states. Chabad institutions provide outreach to unaffiliated Jews and humanitarian aid, as well as religious, cultural and educational activities at Chabad-run community centers, synagogues, schools, camps, and soup kitchens. The movement is thought to number between 40,000 and 200,000 adherents. In 2005 the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs reported that up to one million Jews attend Chabad services at least once a year. In 2013, Chabad forecast that their Chanukah activities would reach up to 8,000,000 Jews in 80 countries worldwide. [...] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Sater Felix Henry Sater (born Felix Mikhailovich Sheferovsky; March 2, 1966) is an American former mobster, real estate developer and former managing director of Bayrock Group LLC, a real estate conglomerate based out of New York City. Sater has been an advisor to many corporations, including The Trump Organization, Rixos Hotels and Resorts, Sembol Construction, Potok (formerly the Mirax Group), and TxOil. In 1998, Sater pleaded guilty to his involvement in a $40 million stock fraud scheme orchestrated by the Russian Mafia, and became an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and federal prosecutors, assisting with organized crime investigations. In 2017, Sater agreed to cooperate with investigators into international money laundering schemes. Early life and family Sater was born in Moscow into a Russian Jewish family, the son of Mikhail Sheferovsky and Rachel Sheferovskaya. He has a sister, Regina. The family emigrated to Israel when Felix was 8 years old to avoid religious persecution in the Soviet Union, and eventually came to the United States, living in Baltimore, Maryland before settling in Brighton Beach, New York in 1974. Felix and his sister adopted the surname Sater. Mikhail Sheferovsky (also known as Michael Sheferofsky) states that the family name was Saterov at some point. According to the FBI, Mikhail Sheferovsky was an underboss for Russian Mafia "boss of bosses" Semion Mogilevich and convicted of extorting money from local restaurants, grocery stores, and a medical clinic. Felix Sater is reportedly a childhood friend of Michael Cohen. [...] Personal life Sater resides in Port Washington, New York. He has three daughters. Felix Sater is an active member of the Chabad of Port Washington and was named their Man of the Year in 2010 and 2014. [snip] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/felix-sater-trump-russia-undercover-us-spy Felix Sater has been cast as a Russian mafioso, a career criminal, and a key business associate of President Donald Trump's — but he spent more than two decades as an intelligence asset who helped the US government track terrorists and mobsters. “Greed is my go-to weapon.” Anthony Cormier Jason Leopold Posted on March 12, 2018, at 11:56 a.m. ET In the sprawling Trump-Russia investigation, one name constantly pops up: Felix Sater. In story after story, Sater is described as Donald Trump’s former business partner, a convicted stock swindler who was born in the Soviet Union, worked in Russia, tried to win Trump a deal in Moscow, and even helped broker a Ukrainian peace plan that Vladimir Putin would have loved. Basically, he’s portrayed as something just short of a Russian spy. Effectively, he has been a spy — but for the United States. For the first time, BuzzFeed News has verified the surprising sweep of Sater’s undercover work and many of his specific exploits. He worked as an asset for the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency (or DIA) and tracked Osama bin Laden. Then he worked for more than a decade for the FBI, providing intel on everything from the mob to North Korea’s drive for nuclear weapons. He still operates as a source for the bureau, according to two current FBI agents. [...] “At the direction of the FBI,” the Department of Justice stated in a newly unsealed court filing, Sater traveled to the Middle East after 9/11 to collect “valuable intelligence” on “key leaders in al Qaeda,” and he helped “in a number of other areas, including Russian organized crime.” In other court filings, the Justice Department said Sater’s work on behalf of the United States “involves 18 foreign governments” as well as “various families of La Cosa Nostra,” and that his help was “of an extraordinary depth and breadth.” Specific exploits confirmed by BuzzFeed News include: The CIA, DIA, FBI, and leaders of the House Intelligence Committee all declined to comment. [snip] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - https://www.businessinsider.com/felix-sater-tax-fraud-case-trump-russia-2017-9 Natasha Bertrand A Manhattan court dismissed a $250 million civil tax fraud case against Russian-American businessman Felix Sater on Wednesday, Business Insider has learned. The civil tax-fraud case against Sater, a former associate of President Donald Trump, and the real-estate company he cofounded, Bayrock, was being prosecuted as a qui tam case, which allows a whistleblower to file on the state's behalf. The attorney general's office can then choose to intervene or not. The purported whistleblower in this case was a lawyer named Fred Oberlander, who at one point represented Sater's former business partner Jody Kriss in a money-laundering suit against Bayrock. Oberlander acknowledged Wednesday that he had filed his qui tam complaint based on information that had been stricken by federal judges from Kriss' original complaint, an attorney who attended the hearing on Wednesday told Business Insider. The attorney said "the argument did not go well for Oberlander, and it seemed likely that the complaint would be dismissed based on Oberlander's use of information that the federal judges had previously ordered removed from the federal complaint as confidential." Sater and his lawyer, Robert Wolf, confirmed afterward that the case had been dismissed. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office declined to intervene in the case last year. He sent a letter in February 2016 notifying the New York Supreme Court of a "misleading" press release Oberlander had issued claiming that Schneiderman had green-lighted the case, "when in fact the State had expressly declined to intervene," Schneiderman wrote. The attorney general's office said it would continue to monitor the case going forward to protect the state's rights and interest. Wolf, Sater's lawyer, said the case was dismissed "on the merits," rather than on procedural grounds. He noted that Oberlander and another lawyer involved in the case against Sater, Richard Lerner, have twice been referred to the DOJ for criminal contempt "regarding their misconduct" in the proceedings against Sater. Lerner told a reporter he plans to appeal the decision to toss the qui tam case. [snip] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
#11. To: nolu chan (#10)
Ah, an affiliation with the Lubavitchers. Ok. Those folks are quite the fanatics. There is a lot of intricacy to the case. So, what is it that VxH wants me to believe? That because some prominent wealthy New York guy committed tax fraud (allegedly), that therefore Trump is in league with Israel (which is baaaad because...?) Behind every great fortune is a great crime. We all know that. So what? Off with their heads? Sieg Heil? What?
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Title: Judge Orders Mueller To Prove Russian Company Meddled In Election
Source: ZeroHedge
URL Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-20/judge-orders-mueller-prove-russian-company-meddled-election
Published: Oct 20, 2018
Author: Tyler Durden Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch, is an Orthodox Jewish, Hasidic movement. Chabad is today one of the world's best known Hasidic movements and is well known for its outreach. It is one of the largest Hasidic groups and Jewish religious organizations in the world.
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BuzzFeed News Reporter New York court dismisses $250 million tax fraud case against Russia-born former Trump associate
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