Witch Hunt!
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Mueller refers foreign agent inquiries to New York prosecutors
Special counsel Robert Mueller has referred a collection of cases to New York federal prosecutors concerning whether several high-profile American lobbyists and operatives failed to register their work as foreign agents, according to people familiar with the matter.Означает ли данный факт, что расследование Мюллера -- это не охота на ведьм? Да ни в коем случае!
The transfer of the inquiries marks an escalation of Mueller's referrals to the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York in the period since he turned over a case involving President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen.
Since the spring, Mueller has referred matters to SDNY involving longtime Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta and his work for his former firm, the Podesta Group, and former Minnesota Republican Rep. Vin Weber and his work for Mercury Public Affairs, the sources said.
One source said that former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig, a former partner at law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, is also part of the inquiry.
None of the entities involved have been charged with wrongdoing, and there is no indication the SDNY inquiry will result in criminal charges.
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At least one of the matters, involving Podesta, was referred to SDNY by Mueller's team shortly before the FBI executed searches of Cohen's home, office and hotel room in early April, according to the sources, though there is no sign that the timing was related to the Cohen investigation. It couldn't be determined if the other matters were referred at the same time.
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Date: 2018-08-01 12:14 pm (UTC)https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/566501/
Не надо забывать, что Путин и его марионетки - не в последнюю очередь жулики и воры, которые паразитируют на западных учреждениях для воровства денег у своего народа.
An important part of this story is Ukraine. Paul Manafort went to work there in 2004—and the country’s ruling party remained his primary client until 2014. During those years, the country hemorrhaged more than $118 billion in illicit financial flows, according to the Kleptocracy Initiative, a think tank that has published invaluable reports about the scourge of corruption. (To set that number in relief, the country’s entire gross domestic product in 2013 was $181 billion.) Stealing this money wasn’t a victimless crime: It came at the expense of Ukraine’s development as a market economy; it sucked funds away from public investment; it eroded faith in democracy and Western institutions. The West hypocritically lectured Ukraine about good government while it profited from Ukrainian oligarchs parking cash in Vienna, London, and New York. <...> And those stories are just a subset of an even larger narrative still, of an American elite increasingly at home in the ranks of international kleptocracy. Thanks to Robert Mueller, that racket is now on trial.
Партийная принадлежность тут не причём. Лэнни Дэвис, демократ и друг Клингонов, работает адвокатом не только у Майкла Коэна, но и Дмитрия Фирташа, которого до сих пор не могут экстрадировать в США несмотря на решение австрийского суда.
Firtash, who has past ties to President Donald Trump’s indicted former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, has been wanted in Chicago since 2014 for his alleged role as the mastermind of an international titanium racket.
He’s been stuck fighting extradition from Austria for three years and has assembled a team of legal all-stars, including former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb, former Bill Clinton White House attorney Lanny Davis and former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff to help keep him out of a Chicago courtroom.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chicagoinc/ct-met-dmitry-firtash-chicago-inc-20180316-story.html
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Date: 2018-08-01 05:31 pm (UTC)- уже смешно. За это время в Украине сменилось несколько правящих коалиций с совершенно разными парнерами.
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Date: 2018-08-01 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-08-02 07:15 am (UTC)А когда написано "работал на правящую партию с 2004 по 2014", то это демонстрация такого полного незнания украинских реалий, что автору лучше было бы об этом вообще не писать.
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Date: 2018-08-02 02:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-08-02 05:00 pm (UTC)Представление о стране, которое складывается у читателя таких статей, разумеется, совершенно превратно. Подозреваю, что это не только с Украиной происходит.
Если в чем-то не смыслишь ни уха ни рыла, то, на мой взгляд, лучше об этом совсем не писать.
Тот еще не вовсе дурак, кто умеет молчать
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Date: 2018-08-02 08:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-08-03 07:35 am (UTC)А так, да. Вон Ахметов до сих пор не сидит. Что уж тут до Фоера доискиваться.
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Date: 2018-08-01 03:13 pm (UTC)Правильно : -vich hunt