Mueller news: what Jerome Corsi book says about Roger Stone and WikiLeaks. The answer to where Robert Mueller is going with his prosecution of Roger Stone could have a lot to do with conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi.
Stone, who was arrested last week at his home in Florida, has long had one big question swirling around him: Was he was somehow involved in the “hack and leak”? That is, the hacking of leading Democrats’ emails by Russian intelligence officers, the provision of those emails to WikiLeaks, and the eventual public release of those stolen emails. Stone has denied any involvement. But Corsi — known as “Person 1” in Stone’s indictment — was questioned by Mueller’s prosecutors on this topic extensively, over multiple sessions late last year. In recent months, he’s gone public, giving many media interviews. The book should be read with heaping piles of salt. But, interestingly, Corsi goes into a whole lot of detail about what Mueller’s prosecutors asked him, and what evidence they told Corsi they had. There’s a wider scandal suggested by the Trump investigations. The scope of financial crimes unearthed so far by state and federal authorities investigating President Trump and his associates is remarkable.
Paul Manafort was found guilty of bank and tax fraud, and faces another trial involving charges of money laundering. Former campaign adviser Rick Gates pleaded guilty to financial fraud. What the Stone indictment doesn't say is what you need to know about Mueller's Trump Russia probe. By now, everyone on the face of the earth knows that on Friday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted Roger Stone for committing seven felonies, including lying to the Senate Intelligence Committee, obstructing justice, and tampering with a witness.
Coverage of the indictment has focused so far on what it says about Stone’s contacts with WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. Most of the coverage yesterday focused on paragraph 12 of the indictment, which intriguingly states, “After the July 22 release of stolen DNC emails by Organization 1 [WikiLeaks], a senior Trump campaign official was directed to contact STONE about any additional releases and what other damaging information Organization 1 had regarding the Clinton campaign.
Trump Tower Moscow: Rudy Giuliani Said There Were “No Plans.” Here They Are. BuzzFeed News; Wikimedia; Getty Images; Trump Tower rendering provided to BuzzFeed News The plan was dazzling: a glass skyscraper that would stretch higher than any other building in Europe, offering ultra-luxury residences and hotel rooms and bearing a famous name.
Trump Tower Moscow, conceived as a partnership between Donald Trump’s company and a Russian real estate developer, looked likely to yield profits in excess of $300 million. The tower was never built, but it has become a focal point of the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into Trump’s relationship with Russia in the lead-up to his presidency. The president and his representatives have dismissed the project as little more than a notion — a rough plan led by Trump’s then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, and his associate Felix Sater, of which Trump and his family said they were only loosely aware as the election campaign gathered pace.
Trump Tower Moscow: Rudy Giuliani Said There Were “No Plans.” Here They Are. Documents indicate detailed plans for Trump Tower Moscow: report. Senator Says 'One Bad Email' Could Show House GOP Allegedly Worked to Obstruct Justice. Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse alleged that Republicans in the House of Representatives could have worked to obstruct justice in the ongoing probe by special counsel Robert Mueller into whether or not President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
“Whether it amounts to criminal conduct, clearly the efforts of the House Republicans were designed to impede and throw sticks into the spokes of the Mueller investigation,” Whitehouse, who represents Rhode Island, said Monday on the Skullduggery podcast by Yahoo News. The senator alleged that Republican representatives tried to “discredit” the investigation while providing “alternative narratives.” He further suggested that GOP members of Congress “potentially even [tried] to communicate to potential witnesses or jurors their alternative narratives and thereby influence the proceedings.” If Trump Told Cohen to Lie, Impeachment Is Coming. S Use of Your Data. S Use of Your Data. Acting AG Matthew Whitaker's wife sent an email to a reporter claiming that the Mueller probe is 'wrapping up'
The circular firing squad: Mueller targets turn on each other. Rudy Giuliani sent an unmistakable message Wednesday night: It’s everyone for themselves.
During a CNN interview, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer blurted out that the only person he knows about who didn’t collude with Russia was Trump himself. Although Giuliani tried to walk back his comments on Thursday, the remarks put the sprawling web of people caught up in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe on notice: no one is coming to save you. Story Continued Below “Ya think!!!” One former Trump campaign official wrote to POLITICO when asked if Giuliani was trying to protect the president at the expense of everyone who worked for him. The Team Trump infighting has been a prosecutor’s dream for Mueller, opening up an ever-widening window into the behind-the-scenes workings of a rookie politician whose campaign has been under investigation for years.
Why Trump Can’t Suppress the Mueller Report. Robert Mueller met with President Donald Trump's pollster. Mueller's team met with pollster Tony Fabrizio in February 2018, an interview that has not been previously reported and takes on new significance after Manafort's attorneys revealed Tuesday that Mueller's team is still interested in how Manafort shared polling data with his Russian intelligence-linked colleague.
CNN journalists observed Fabrizio leaving the special counsel's office on the first of February last year and have since confirmed he was meeting with Mueller's team. At the time, the special counsel had been digging into Manafort's finances and political work ahead of his trial. In a filing Tuesday, Manafort's attorneys tried to redact the fact that prosecutors knew Manafort shared polling data related to the 2016 presidential election with his Russian intelligence-linked associate Konstantin Kilimnik while Manafort was running Trump's presidential campaign.
Fabrizio would not comment for this story. Manafort Shared Trump Campaign Data With Russian Associate, Prosecutors Say. Ex-federal prosecutor says courts not buying foreign company's defense against subpoena. Russian Ex-Spy Pressured Manafort Over Debts to an Oligarch. When the U.S. government put out its latest sanctions list on Dec. 19, the man named at the top did not seem especially important.
Described in the document as a former Russian intelligence officer, he was accused of handling money and negotiations on behalf of a powerful Russian oligarch. The document did not mention that the man, Victor Boyarkin, had links to the 2016 campaign of President Donald Trump. A months-long investigation by TIME, however, found that Boyarkin, a former arms dealer with a high forehead and a very low profile, was a key link between a senior member of the Trump campaign and a powerful ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In his only interview with the media about those connections, Boyarkin told TIME this fall that he was in touch with Trump’s then-campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, in the heat of the presidential race on behalf of the Russian oligarch. “He owed us a lot of money,” Boyarkin says. S Use of Your Data. Why Rudy Giuliani is "the fool for our time," according to Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. Whatever reputation former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani still had coming into the presidency of Donald Trump has been squandered as he acts like a “crazy uncle” or “clown” on cable TV shows, writes a Washington Post columnist.
According to Dana Milbank, in a column entitled “Rudy Giuliani is the fool for our time” that cuts right to the chase, the man once known as “America’s mayor” has little future ahead of him as a spokesperson for anything or as a go-to expert for legal insights. “Rudy Giuliani started Tuesday in the manner Americans have come to expect of the president’s lawyer: He attacked former FBI director James Comey by tweeting a cartoon image of Bashful from Disney’s ‘Snow White,” Milbank wrote, before adding, “Giuliani deleted the tweet, and anyway, it’s not clear why he chose Bashful. Considering Giuliani’s recent antics, the character that comes to mind is Dopey.” “Giuliani announced that Trump reimbursed Cohen for hush money to a porn actress. Donald Trump's Legal Vise: How the Probes Have Proliferated.
Photographer: Pool/Getty Images As President Donald Trump and his lawyers turn toward the new year, they’ll have to contend with a legal narrative that’s taken fuller shape through a flurry of court filings and news reports that began landing about three weeks ago and extended through Friday afternoon: Members of Trump’s presidential campaign — and possibly “Individual 1” himself — may have orchestrated a number of criminal conspiracies that took root before and during the 2016 presidential campaign, continued after Trump won the election, and have tainted the White House’s policies and torn at its operations ever since.
The breadth of investigations is so sweeping — as many on social media and reporters with the Washington Post, the Associated Press, and Bloomberg News have already noted — that few of the worlds Trump inhabits have escaped prosecutors’ attention. But there are many other threads, some related to Russia and some not, that investigators are pulling on. S Use of Your Data. Mueller Rejects Flynn’s Attempt to Portray Himself as Victim of the F.B.I. Michael Cohen On Trump: 'I Will Not Be The Villain Of His Story' Updated at 11:50 a.m. ET Michael Cohen, President Trump's onetime lawyer and fixer, says his former boss knew it was wrong to order hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to two women who say they had affairs with Trump — but he directed Cohen to do it anyway to help his election chances. MSNBC legal analyst reveals the quickest path to indicting Donald Trump using Mueller's findings.
Trump tries to change the story but Russia cloud darkens. On Saturday, Trump announced the exit of chief of staff John Kelly, dismissed new revelations from the Russia probe, slapped familiar foes and promoted violent demonstrations challenging his erstwhile friend, French President Emmanuel Macron. But while he can spin new stories for the media to chase, the President seems powerless to stop Mueller's relentless focus on his own conduct in the 2016 campaign and ever since. A week of legal filings related to the Russia investigation has only increased the President's vulnerability and raised new questions about whether his campaign cooperated with a Russian election meddling effort.
Prosecutors’ Narrative Is Clear: Trump Defrauded Voters. But What Does It Mean? The document said that the conspiracy theorist, Jerome Corsi, understood that one of Mr. Trump’s associates, Roger J. Stone Jr., was “in regular contact with senior members of the Trump campaign, including with then-candidate Donald J. Trump,” when Mr. Stone asked Mr. Corsi to find out from the head of WikiLeaks what he had in store for the Clinton campaign. Mr. In a meeting at the Justice Department that was presided over by the principal associate deputy attorney general, Ed O’Callaghan, Mr.
Mr. Although Mr. But while the House can impeach a president on a majority vote, conviction in the Senate requires a two-thirds vote, meaning that unless at least 20 Republican senators abandon Mr. While liberals are pressing Democrats to move on impeachment, party leaders remain wary, fearing a backlash. Is This the Beginning of the End for Trump? Is Mueller Building an Expansive Obstruction Case? Here's why this line from Mueller's latest court filing should make Trump scared to tweet.
Motherjones. Mueller Says Manafort Lied About Contacts With Trump Officials. Paul Manafort filing from Mueller to be largely secret. In a heavily redacted document, Mueller also said Manafort lied about his interactions with Konstantin Kilimnik. Mueller has said Kilimnik has ties to the Russian military intelligence unit accused of hacking the Democrats, and they've previously outlined how the two men may have worked together to tamper with witnesses following Manafort's arrest last year. Michael Cohen, Trump’s Ex-Fixer, Should Get Prison Term of About 4 Years, Prosecutors Say.
Mueller's Flynn Memo Should Worry Kushner and Trump. Photographer: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser who pleaded guilty a year ago to lying to federal law enforcement officials, has participated in 19 interviews with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office since early last year. He’s also assisted with several ongoing investigations – including an undisclosed criminal one – that are part of a probe of possible collusion between Trump’s presidential campaign and the Kremlin. All of that, plus Flynn’s “substantial assistance,” early cooperation, and acceptance of “responsibility for his unlawful conduct,” led Muller’s team to ask the court to grant Flynn a lenient sentence that doesn’t include prison time, according to a highly anticipated sentencing memo the special counsel’s office filed Tuesday night.
Comey, and his successor, Mueller, have been focused on possible favor-trading between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. Eu.usatoday. For more than a century, the FBI has worked to identify and counter the threat posed by foreign powers attempting to infiltrate and influence our nation. Although not as well known as the bureau’s counterterrorism or law enforcement missions, its counterintelligence function is no less important to our national security. I first became familiar with the FBI’s work to defeat foreign spies in 1990, when, as an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, I successfully prosecuted former FBI agent Richard Miller for giving classified information to the Soviets.
Miller worked in the counterintelligence section of the FBI and was seduced by a female asset of the KGB, who persuaded him to give her classified documents in a classic “sex for secrets” case. Stone pleads the Fifth to snub Senate document request. Roger Stone Sold Himself to Trump’s Campaign as a WikiLeaks Pipeline. Was He? Roger Stone Refuses To Provide Documents, Interview With Judiciary Committee: Lawyer. - The Washington Post. Mueller Exposes the Culture of Lying That Surrounds Trump. Mr. Get ready for Mueller’s end game. Michael Cohen Admits Talks for Trump Over Moscow Tower Occurred Well Into Campaign.
Manafort Breached Plea Deal by Repeatedly Lying, Mueller Says. Donald Trump is terrified. NYT’s reporter says Trump was instructed not to tweet about the Mueller probe. - The Washington Post. ‘Preparing for the worst’: Mueller anxiety pervades Trump world. Roger Stone, friend discussed WikiLeaks plans ahead of election: report. Mueller looking into possible witness intimidation by Roger Stone: report. Trump’s Appointment of the Acting Attorney General Is Unconstitutional. Jeff Sessions Is Forced Out as Attorney General as Trump Installs Loyalist. “The President Is Very Depressed”: With Don Jr. Facing Possible Indictment, and Endless House Investigations Forthcoming, No Wonder Trump Is in a Bad Mood. Last night, about 100 friends and allies of Donald Trump gathered at the White House for a party to watch the midterm-election results.
Mueller has powerful new House allies as he bears down on Trump.