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An American businessman who worked for years undercover as an FBI confidential witness was blocked by the Obama Justice Department from telling Congress about conversations and transactions he witnessed related to the Russian nuclear industry's efforts to win favor with Bill and Hillary Clinton and influence Obama administration decisions, his lawyer tells The Hill.
Attorney Victoria Toensing, a former Reagan Justice Department official and former chief counsel of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Tuesday she is working with members of Congress to see if they can get the Trump Justice Department or the FBI to free her client to talk to lawmakers.
“All of the information about this corruption has not come out,” she said in an interview Tuesday. “And so my client, the same part of my client that made him go into the FBI in the first place, says, 'This is wrong. What should I do about it?'”
Toensing said she also possesses memos that recount how the Justice Department last year threatened her client when he attempted to file a lawsuit that could have drawn attention to the Russian corruption during the 2016 presidential race as well as helped him recover some of the money Russians stole from him through kickbacks during the FBI probe.
originally posted by: RazorV66
a reply to: Grambler
Them Leftists want us to believe that Trump is in bed with Putin to cover up the sad fact that Obama, Hillary and Putin have had many 3-ways the last 8 years.
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: Grambler
"Was" blocked. What's the status going forward?
Sources told The Hill the informant's work was crucial to the government's ability to crack a multimillion dollar racketeering scheme by Russian nuclear officials on U.S. soil that involved bribery, kickbacks, money laundering and extortion. In the end, the main Russian executive sent to the U.S. to expand Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear business, an executive of an American trucking firm and a Russian financier from New Jersey pled guilty to various crimes in a case that started in 2009 and ended in late 2015.
Toensing said the confidential witness identified in those court documents is her client.
Working as a confidential witness, the businessman made kickback payments to the Russians with the approval of his FBI handlers and gathered other evidence, the records show.
Toensing added her client has had contact from multiple congressional committees seeking information about what he witnessed inside the Russian nuclear industry and has been unable to provide that informationbecause of the NDA.
originally posted by: avgguy
a reply to: Gryphon66
Triggered?
originally posted by: Mike.Ockizard
a reply to: Gryphon66
I'd add to the :desperate Republicans" statement that the mid-terms are coming and they want to look good. Still not holding out hope they will push this. After all, they may all be complicit or somehow benefit from remaining silent (corporate money, foreign govt deals, Soros etc)