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The lawyer is accused of misleading investigators about the last time he talked with Richard Gates, who was indicted in October with ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort over their consulting work in Ukraine. Van Der Zwaan was questioned by U.S. authorities regarding his firm’s work in 2012 on behalf of the Ukraine Ministry of Justice.
Van Der Zwaan told investigators that his last contact with Gates was an innocuous text message in mid-August 2016, when they actually spoke the following month about the Tymoshenko report in a call the lawyer secretly recorded, the information says.
Prosecutors also accused Van Der Zwaan of lying about his talks with someone else, identified by the government as Person A. The lawyer told investigators he last spoke with Person A in 2014, when in fact they spoke in September 2016 during the secretly recorded call with Gates.
FBI Agents accused McCabe of interfering with Russian-linked investigations, including the Boston Marathon terror bombing and the Robert Levinson kidnapping cases, even making a formal complaint with FBI Security Division about the incidents.
McCabe for years worked Russian organized crime in New York for the FBI, previous to his Washington D.C. rise. He led the FBI’s Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force, a joint operation with the NYPD.
While in New York, McCabe worked in tandem with Bruce Ohr, the recently demoted DOJ official linked to the Trump fake dossier who often coordinated with McCabe’s Russian organized crime task force. Ohr worked Organized Crime too for DOJ. Ohr’s wife Nellie worked for Fusion GPS and previously worked for the CIA.
McCabe maintained an alliance with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska a tycoon and close associate of Vladimir Putin. And McCabe apparently met with him in Europe without proper clearance from FBI, while Deripaska was a possible target on a FBI organized crime probe. McCabe also privately acknowledged to FBI agents that Deripaska was a friend.
Yes, this is the same Deripaska who was trumpeted as part of Mueller’s recent Paul Manafort indictment. If Manafort’s connections to Deripaska’s billions helped indict him, why didn’t McCabe’s associations with the oligarch warrant similar investigation by the very man, Mueller, who slammed Manafort?
During McCabe’s liaisons with Deripaska, Strzok was running the FBI’s Post-Adjudication Risk Management plan, or PARM, a program initiated to catch problematic and criminal associations of FBI agents. Strzok and PARM should have snagged McCabe’s Russian associations, especially Deripaska. Many agents were fired for far less, under the stringent internal program. Where was Strzok’s oversight of McCabe or did Strzok simply look the other way?
CIA officials looked at McCabe’s Russian contacts, especially Deripaska, fearing a possible data breach like convicted FBI spy Robert Hanssen.
Obama Counsel
Manafort was involved in recruiting Skadden to prepare the report on behalf of Ukraine, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News. The Skadden team was headed by Gregory Craig, a partner who had worked as President Barack Obama’s White House counsel from 2009 to 2010 and for President Bill Clinton during his impeachment.
These people really are stoopid.
originally posted by: Hewhowaits
a reply to: angeldoll
Matters not when you are only investigating one side- and then scream bloody murder when the same standard is applied to your side...
originally posted by: Hewhowaits
a reply to: angeldoll
The nature, yes. Most people know the nature of this investigation.
However they don't realize it's not really an investigation per se: it's finding out how bad the Democrats are exposed, and making sure they have enough time to destroy the evidence.
originally posted by: Hewhowaits
a reply to: angeldoll
Mueller is as republican as Paul Ryan. That isn't saying much. They are bought and paid for regardless of what color tie they wear. Mueller has been close with Comey and McCabe for a long while- which is exactly why he is "investigating".
originally posted by: angeldoll
Or maybe he's driving home the point that he won't be lied to during this investigations. If you do, there will be consequences, it's clear.
So far the people he's accused of lying, were, and have admitted to it, so he's not making frivolous allegations and charges.
originally posted by: Hewhowaits
I find it interesting every new link to Obama and Hillary's lawlessness lead to a string of indictments and evidence destruction.
How about we demand straight up transparency with these investigations? Real time, live body cam coverage of these nimrods, with phone call transcripts, text message content and expense accounting also in real time.