Judge Orders Mueller To Prove Russian Company Meddled In Election
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sat, 10/20/2018 - 14:35
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.
According to the judges request for clarification, the Justice Department has argued that it doesnt 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
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.
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 FECs functions and then deliberately sought to skirt them.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. Attorneys 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 counsels 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 isnt," 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.
#1: VxH To: nolu chan (#0)
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.
VxH posted on 2018-10-21 01:35:13 Reply Private Reply
#2: nolu chan To: VxH (#1)
nolu chan posted on 2018-10-21 01:41:46 Reply Private Reply
#3: VxH To: nolu chan (#2)
VxH posted on 2018-10-21 03:22:05 Reply Private Reply
#4: misterwhite To: VxH (#1)
A far cry from "Russia hacked the election".
misterwhite posted on 2018-10-21 10:14:34 Reply Private Reply
#5: nolu chan To: VxH (#3)
nolu chan posted on 2018-10-21 13:10:50 Reply Private Reply
#6: Vicomte13 To: VxH (#1)
Vicomte13 posted on 2018-10-21 20:19:47 Reply Private Reply
#7: VxH To: Vicomte13 (#6)
That you can resurrect rodents - but are too stupid to use Google?
https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump+Chabad+Mafia
VxH posted on 2018-10-22 01:20:20 Reply Private Reply
#8: Vicomte13 To: VxH (#7)
Im not too stupid to use Google. Im too uninterested. I see old lunatics raving about conspiracy theories, acting as though all of us should know the details of the strange hobbyhorses they have in their minds.
In my view, if somebody is going to talk about some dark and mysterious force, the Chabad Mafia, then he ought to be willing to discuss what it is. No, Im not going to go research it. I doubt it really exists as anything other than a localized something-or-other. Sounds Jewish. And because I ascribe no supernatural power or influence to Jews, I simply am not interested in spending the bandwidth to learn about your hobbyhorse. I have offered you the opportunity to explain in your own words what the Chabad Mafia is, and why I should care enough about it to go look it up. You reply by bringing up an actual miracle.
Youre doing that for two reasons: (1) To make me cringe, but it doesnt. All youre doing is reminding me of how lucky I am to be so much closer to God than you. God raised a rodent in my hands, but hes let you go nuts alone in your basement seeing Joooooooos behind everything.
(2) To make anybody who reads dismiss me, and presumably to listen to you.
Trouble is, even if I were a completely delusional psychotic, I would still be more polite, rational and nice to talk to than you are. So by picking on me youre not advancing your cause with me - youre reminding me that Im blessed and youre not. And youre not actually gaining market share with your audience either, because you just look and sound like a dick.
Youre proposed that there is a thing - obviously a Jewish thing - called the Chabad Mafia, and that it somehow controls the Scottish Presbyterian New York billionaire President Donald Trump. This seems unlikely. It sounds like the sort of Jewish conspiracy nonsense that drove the Germans berserk and caused them to burn down their own country.
If its not, if its something real, explain yourself. Dont ask people who think yoiure a nut to go look at nutty websites. Explain it yourself.
Notice, please, that the guy for whom God raised a rodent is the ONLY ONE who actually tries to engage you on the IDEAS you present. Everybody else mocks you and curses at you. I mock you only in proportion to the degree you mock me. I would like to hear what YOU have to say, mostly because I have compassion for what I perceive to be an old man struggling with mental health, loneliness and anger issues, and going down the path of anti-Semitism because thats the path than has been laid out already by mentally unstable, lonely angry men in the past.
By having YOU talk about the Jooooos you see behind every rock, it is my hope that you will find that it doesnt really hold together, and that youll engage in more wholesome mental activity.
So, my talking to you is actually an act of kindness, on my part. Im doing good to one who insults me, just like Jesus said to do.
Tell me about your Chabad Mafia, and why I should care about it. And where it starts to drop off into nonsense, see the crazy yourself and decide to back away from the abyss, for your own good.
And yes, God DID raise a rodent and a lizard from the dead right in my presence. I never said that I did it. I cant raise anything from the dead. I always have recounted what happened the same way. It is a mark of the dishonesty of those who attack me with it that they change my oft-repeated story from God raising the dead to me doing it - something I never, ever said. If you cant even get THAT right, why would I trust your judgment or honesty on anything else you say?
Vicomte13 posted on 2018-10-22 07:39:03 Reply Private Reply
#9: VxH To: Vicomte13 (#8)
VxH posted on 2018-10-22 11:47:30 Reply Private Reply
#10: nolu chan To: VxH, Vicomte13, A K A Stone (#1)
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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....
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nolu chan posted on 2018-10-22 14:54:55 Reply Private Reply
#11: Vicomte13 To: nolu chan (#10)
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?
Vicomte13 posted on 2018-10-22 19:05:20 Reply Private Reply
#12: nolu chan To: Vicomte13 (#11)
VxH wants to redirect the thread away from the collapse of the Russian meddling legal case where a defendant actually and very unexpectedly showed up and proceeded to kick the unprepared special counsel's butt.
Another topic to be distracted from is the mid-term election and, more specifically, the blue wave we were hearing all about not so long ago.
He does not care what you believe. He wants you to engage in an irrelevant debate about some ridiculously diversionary nonsense. If the Joo mafia will get that job done for him, you may chase your tail about his Joos, Lubavichers, chabod, and Felix Sater.
He failed to note that Sater committed fraud 20 years ago and was then flipped to work undercover for alphabet city, such as the FBI and the CIA for the past 20 years.
While Sater was involved in fraud 20 years ago, he has since become an American intel asset.
On another thread ---
https://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=57490&Disp=15#C15
Same shit, different irrelevant diversion.
I dismissively replied with an equally irrelevant cartoon. If he wanted to tell me something about some Jewish guy born in Estonia when it was Russian, and who went on to become part of the German propaganda effort, and got himself hanged for his trouble, he could just tell me. It is just a tactic these NPCs use to hand out homework, and have their target chase his tail for their enjoyment.
nolu chan posted on 2018-10-23 14:41:56 Reply Private Reply
#13: Vicomte13 To: nolu chan (#12)
What's an NPC?
Vicomte13 posted on 2018-10-23 17:31:59 Reply Private Reply
#14: nolu chan To: Vicomte13 (#13)
Sorry about that.
Going back over twenty years, NPC actually stands for Non-Player Character and derives from computer role playuing games (RPGs) where the actual player interacts with NPCs generated by the game program. NPCs use artificial intelligence and/or a script to communicate with the player.
4chan popularized a meme based on the Non-Player Character to ridicule the hive mind group think of the liberal drive-by media which appears to read scripted talking points from the same teleprompter.
The dastardly 4chan rebels opened accounts with names such as NPC-18 or NPC-37.
The meme characters feature generic faces. They rather savagely satirize the liberal talking points of the day which are blasted word for word by the various MSM talking heads and party hacks, and then echoed about the internet.
In short, NPC has become a nerd's derogatory term for those who mindlessly present or echo the talking points of the day. It infers these bots exhibit the intellect of an NPC.
From Rush Limbaugh today:
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nolu chan posted on 2018-10-23 19:04:35 Reply Private Reply
#15: VxH To: nolu chan, vicomte13, lizard king (#12)
(D)rumpf isn't colluding with Russians. He's colluding with the Synagogue of Satan and the "Jewish" mafia.
Putin knows exactly what they are.
So did Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
"You must understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. The October Revolution was not what you call in America the "Russian Revolution." It was an invasion and conquest over the Russian people. More of my countrymen suffered horrific crimes at their bloodstained hands than any people or nation ever suffered in the entirety of human history. It cannot be understated. Bolshevism was the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant of this reality is proof that the global media itself is in the hands of the perpetrators."
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
VxH posted on 2018-10-25 10:50:00 Reply Private Reply
#16: nolu chan To: VxH (#15)
Of course, the great, the magnificent President Donald J. Trymp is colluding with the Synagogue of Satan and the "Jewish" mafia.
The evidence you present is overwhelming and I can't believe how the entire world missed it.
And I thought is was the Black Death, perpetrated by fleas.
What does this mean? The Walking Dead? Zombie Apocalypse? A rally featuring the great, the magnificent President Donald J. Trump?
nolu chan posted on 2018-10-25 14:15:56 Reply Private Reply
#17: nolu chan To: VxH, lizard king (#15)
Excerpt from David Icke's book "The Biggest Secret"
You are definitely on to some there. The evidence is overwhelming.
nolu chan posted on 2018-10-25 14:18:49 Reply Private Reply
#18: VxH To: nolu chan (#17)
Got any footage of Elvis having lunch with Bigfoot on the way to planet Xenu?
VxH posted on 2018-10-27 18:15:35 Reply Private Reply