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In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007
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I was alerted to Deripaska’s past FBI relationship by U.S. officials who wondered whether the Russian’s conspicuous absence from Mueller’s indictments might be related to his FBI work.
They aren’t the only ones.
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz told me he believes Mueller has a conflict of interest because his FBI previously accepted financial help from a Russian that is, at the very least, a witness in the current probe.
“The real question becomes whether it was proper to leave him (Deripaska) out of the Manafort indictment, and whether that omission was to avoid the kind of transparency that is really required by the law,” Dershowitz said.
Melanie Sloan, a former Clinton Justice Department lawyer and longtime ethics watchdog, told me a “far more significant issue” is whether the earlier FBI operation was even legal: “It’s possible the bureau’s arrangement with Mr. Deripaska violated the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits the government from accepting voluntary services.”
George Washington University constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley agreed: “If the operation with Deripaska contravened federal law, this figure could be viewed as a potential embarrassment for Mueller. The question is whether he could implicate Mueller in an impropriety.”
originally posted by: Grambler
In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007
...
I was alerted to Deripaska’s past FBI relationship by U.S. officials who wondered whether the Russian’s conspicuous absence from Mueller’s indictments might be related to his FBI work.
They aren’t the only ones.
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz told me he believes Mueller has a conflict of interest because his FBI previously accepted financial help from a Russian that is, at the very least, a witness in the current probe.
“The real question becomes whether it was proper to leave him (Deripaska) out of the Manafort indictment, and whether that omission was to avoid the kind of transparency that is really required by the law,” Dershowitz said.
Melanie Sloan, a former Clinton Justice Department lawyer and longtime ethics watchdog, told me a “far more significant issue” is whether the earlier FBI operation was even legal: “It’s possible the bureau’s arrangement with Mr. Deripaska violated the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits the government from accepting voluntary services.”
George Washington University constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley agreed: “If the operation with Deripaska contravened federal law, this figure could be viewed as a potential embarrassment for Mueller. The question is whether he could implicate Mueller in an impropriety.”
thehill.com...
Well isn’t this interesting?
There are those on ats and elsewhere that are insistent that connections to Deripaska proves some sort of incredible shadiness.
Now we find out that mueller may have been in charge of an illegal deal with him hives ng him money while he was heading the fbi.
So now we have an invetisgator who was invited involved with a Russian oligarch (and may have broke the law paying him) now investigating trumps team for connections to that same oligarch, who is a suspect or key witness.
And somehow, that oligarchs name was left out of the indictment of Manafort.
Just another example in the ever growing list of double standards incompetence or corruption of these investigators
I am sure the very people insisting that Manafort schools connections to Deripaska were terrible will be calling muellers connections to him the same.
originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: Grambler
Can we just start listing the people that haven't broke the law?
It's got to be a shorter list
originally posted by: BlueMule
It’s pathetic how desperate Cult45 is to tarnish Mueller.
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
originally posted by: BlueMule
It’s pathetic how desperate Cult45 is to tarnish Mueller.
I see it a bit differently... I see the "resistance" desperately trying to polish a turd, then accusing those who aren't playing along of "tarnishing" the turd when, clearly, a turd is a turd is a turd.
originally posted by: luthier
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
originally posted by: BlueMule
It’s pathetic how desperate Cult45 is to tarnish Mueller.
I see it a bit differently... I see the "resistance" desperately trying to polish a turd, then accusing those who aren't playing along of "tarnishing" the turd when, clearly, a turd is a turd is a turd.
What I see is the left and right desperately grasping at straws for an investigation they have .05 percent of the informatuon on.