http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/15/another-prosecutor-joins-trump-russia-investigation-242794 Another prosecutor joins Trump-Russia probe Kyle Freeny jumps to Mueller staff from money laundering unit. By JOSH GERSTEIN 09/15/2017 11:47 PM EDT An attorney working on the Justice Department's highest-profile money laundering case recently transferred off that assignment in order to join the staff of the special prosecutor investigating the Trump campaign's potential ties to Russia, POLITICO has learned. Attorney Kyle Freeny was among the prosecutors on hand Friday as a spokesman for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Jason Maloni, testified before a grand jury at federal court in Washington. Freeny, whose assignment to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's staff has not been previously reported, is the 16th lawyer known to be working with the former FBI chief on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. She departed from the courthouse Friday with two other members of Mueller's squad: former Criminal Division chief and Enron prosecutor Andrew Weissman and Civil Division appellate attorney Adam Jed, a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Before being detailed to Mueller's team, Freeny was shepherding the Justice Department's headline-grabbing effort to seize the profits from the film "The Wolf of Wall Street" on grounds that the film was financed with assets looted from the Malaysian government. Freeny withdrew from the "Wolf of Wall Street" case on June 26, court records show, shortly before many of Mueller's attorneys joined his team in early July. Lawyers for the production company behind the film, Red Granite Pictures, said in a court filing in Los Angeles Friday that they've reached a settlement with prosecutors. A Justice Department spokesperson said he was aware of the filing, but declined to comment. Freeny's work on the movie-related case and the Manafort aspect of the Trump-Russia probe appear to have some commonalities The Justice Department billed the "Wolf of Wall Street" case as a product of the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, an effort to pursue the proceeds of foreign corruption and return such monies to the public in the affected countries. Justice Department officials including former Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the same kleptocracy project is probing the transfer of assets overseas by Ukrainian officials, including former President Viktor Yanukovych. Manafort served as a consultant to Yanukovych and his Party of Regions — work that has triggered suspicions about the former Trump campaign chief because of Yanukovych's warm relationship with Moscow. A Manafort firm belatedly filed a report in June with U.S. authorities disclosing about $17 million in payments from the Party of Regions between 2012 and 2014. Manafort has denied wrongdoing and has not been charged with any crime. However, in July, FBI agents executed an early-morning search warrant at his Alexandria, Va. condominium. A spokesman for Mueller's office confirmed Freeny is part of the staff, but he declined to elaborate on her role or what took place at the courthouse Friday.
http://www.newsweek.com/mueller-tru...&utm_campaign=most_read&utm_medium=most_read2 Mueller Is ‘Going for the Kill’ on Trump-Russia Investigation, Republicans Believe: Report By Jason Le Miere On 9/12/17 Republicans with close links to the White House increasingly believe that special counsel Robert Mueller is “going for the kill” in his investigation into links between President Donald Trump and Russia, according to a report from Axios Tuesday. Members of the GOP are said to have come to that stark conclusion based on Mueller’s hiring of lawyers experienced in dealing with money laundering crimes and the Mafia, as well as the intensity of his pursuit of both witnesses and evidence. Trump has previously warned that investigation of his financial dealings is a red line that Mueller should not cross. But that is thought to be exactly what Mueller is doing, including looking into a proposal made during the 2016 campaign to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. The new report comes just days after Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, told CBS’s 60 Minutes that Trump’s firing of former FBI Director James Comey, which he called the worst mistake in “modern political history,” led directly to the appointment of Mueller to oversee the investigation. Mueller’s probe appears to have stepped up in recent weeks. It was reported last month that he had impaneled a federal grand jury in Washington and has issued subpoenas related to a meeting Donald Trump Jr. held with a Russian-government-linked lawyer in June 2016. Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, as well as his then-campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, were also at the meeting. Last week, Trump Jr. was interviewed behind closed doors by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Such is the scale of Mueller’s investigation that legal fees for those coming under the probe’s focus are mounting sharply, to the extent that outside legal defense funds could soon be necessary, Axios reports. More Trump aides are said to have lawyered up in response to a draft letter from Trump explaining his reasons for firing Comey, which was never sent and has not been published but has been obtained by Mueller. The letter was handed out to several White House officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, according to The New York Times. Despite Trump’s repeated insistence that he has been told he is not personally under investigation, the president is possibly facing very real personal consequences. Based on conversations with White House aides, Axios says that Mueller is narrowing in on a possible charge of obstruction of justice against the president. While the details of the original letter have yet to be disclosed, Trump undermined his legally refined reasons for dismissing Comey when he told NBC News that he did so with the Russia investigation in mind. Despite all of this, Trump is not thought to be considering firing Mueller, according to Axios. Doing so, Trump associates said, would be as bad as “firing the pope.”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/f...n-russian-facebook-ads-report/article/2634638 Facebook gave more info to Robert Mueller than Congress on Russian Facebook ads: Report by Diana Stancy Correll | Sep 15, 2017, 7:48 PM Facebook submitted its recent findings related to Russian Facebook ads purchased during the 2016 campaign to special counsel Robert Mueller and House and Senate intelligence committees last week, but the social media platform did not share as much information concerning the ads with Congress as it did the federal probe. Mueller was provided detailed copies of the ads and information about the accounts behind the ads and what targeting criteria was utilized, the Wall Street Journal reported. Facebook said it provided only "the stored contents of any account," such as messages and location details, in keeping with Facebook policy and in response to a search warrant. Should Mueller issue a search warrant, he would have robust means to investigate the particulars of how Russians impacted the 2016 election via social media. Facebook has not provided identical information to Congress partly due to consideration of interfering with Mueller's investigation. Additionally, there is concern about violating U.S. privacy laws. A Facebook spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal the company is still investigating the situation and is complying with U.S. authorities. Facebook revealed last week $100,000 was purchased for ads from June 2015 to May 2017 by a Russian "troll farm" called the Internet Research Agency, which has promoted pro-Russian propaganda. The money was connected to approximately 3,000 ads and 470 "inauthentic accounts and pages."
Do the American public think that all these "money laundering and mafia" law enforcement specialists are just playing or simply incompetenet people who like wasting their time on loosy cases?? ?
It's worse than that. They think these people who are meant to be upholders of the law are colluding to bring Trump down because they sent 20$ to a liberal cause or democrat in their college years.
Putting your own money (trading, politicial betting, professional gambling) behind opinion, usually get people to ask questions so as to check any assumption.