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Judge hands defeat to Mueller team in Russian troll farm case
Posted on 5/5/18 at 9:26 pm
Posted on 5/5/18 at 9:26 pm
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Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team was handed a defeat Saturday when a judge rejected their request to postpone the first court hearing regarding charges against several Russian companies and Russian citizens that they charge with attempting to use social media to meddle in the 2016 election.
An arraignment was scheduled for Wednesday for Concord Management and Consulting, one of the three Russian companies Mueller accused of contributing to a Russian troll farm operation to spread discord online during the presidential contest.
Mueller's team asked for a delay on Friday because it was unclear whether the firm had formally accepted the court summons for the case, but U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich, an appointee of President Trump, denied that request in a brief order Saturday. No explanation was given for the decision, according to Politico.
Mueller's prosecutors on Friday revealed that two of Concord's attorneys made multiple discovery requests seeking nonpublic details related to the Russia investigation, an effort which had been included in the request to put the arraignment on hold.
In response to the request by Mueller's prosecutors, Concord's attorneys said the defendant "voluntarily appeared through counsel as provided for in [federal rules]" and denied any push to "quash" the summons. They also accused Mueller's team of not replying to all of the discovery requests and of attempting to "usurp the scheduling authority of the Court."
Concord has named in an indictment obtained by Mueller that was announced by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing Mueller’s probe, in February.
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Posted on 5/5/18 at 9:29 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Yet ANOTHER judge dick whips the clown show.
Posted on 5/5/18 at 9:33 pm to bamarep
Mueller is no Ken Starr and Archibald Cox.
Posted on 5/5/18 at 9:38 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
That judge will suddenly find armed agents tearing their front door down and all of their files confiscated..
Posted on 5/5/18 at 9:46 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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mueLLLLLLer
Updated for the L's he's been taking.
Posted on 5/5/18 at 9:51 pm to TbirdSpur2010
I’m waiting for our resident board judge to walk us through all of the legalities of this.
Posted on 5/5/18 at 9:52 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Hope this judge has some bad arse baws by his side at all times. Wouldn't be surprised if the deep state democrats suicided the old man.
Posted on 5/5/18 at 9:56 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
How stupid are these assholes?
They have leftist kook judges galore to shop and nutjob grand juries in both DC and NOVA and they still get bitchslapped repeatedly?
They have leftist kook judges galore to shop and nutjob grand juries in both DC and NOVA and they still get bitchslapped repeatedly?
Posted on 5/5/18 at 9:59 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
The minute entry just denies the continuance. I wouldn’t get all slap-happy yet.
Posted on 5/5/18 at 9:59 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
So he indicted 17 Russians he believed he’d never actually face for optics. 3 called his bluff and he gets BTFO and a judge denies his attempt to scramble?
Posted on 5/5/18 at 10:00 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Mueller's team asked for a delay on Friday because it was unclear whether the firm had formally accepted the court summons for the case
And yet somehow they managed to retain counsel and show up to court. Mueller is a fricking hack.
quote:
Mueller's prosecutors on Friday revealed that two of Concord's attorneys made multiple discovery requests seeking nonpublic details related to the Russia investigation, an effort which had been included in the request to put the arraignment on hold.
Requests that Mueller never thought would happen. Now they need time to fabricate necessary items or destroy those they don't want to disclose.
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They also accused Mueller's team of not replying to all of the discovery requests
Seems like a theme is developing.
And yet Sessions sits on his hands and Rosenstein refuses to live up to any ethical standards.
Maybe I'll just keep posting this until Sessions or someone with integrity decides to take action against this abhorrent abuse of power going on with the SC:
Berger v US
"The [prosecutor] is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all; and whose interest, therefore, in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done. As such, he is in a peculiar and very definite sense the servant of the law, the twofold aim of which is that guilt shall not escape or innocence suffer. He may prosecute with earnestness and vigor - indeed, he should do so. But, while he may strike hard blows, he is not at liberty to strike foul ones. It is as much his duty to refrain from improper methods calculated to produce a wrongful conviction as it is to use every legitimate means to bring about a just one."
Posted on 5/5/18 at 10:04 pm to gthog61
Where would you file?
They did get unlucky with the draw.
But this isn’t like Gil Garcetti filing downtown instead of Brentwood.
They did get unlucky with the draw.
But this isn’t like Gil Garcetti filing downtown instead of Brentwood.
Posted on 5/5/18 at 10:06 pm to indianswim
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So he indicted 17 Russians he believed he’d never actually face for optics. 3 called his bluff and he gets BTFO and a judge denies his attempt to scramble?
These 'easy convictions' were Mueller's ace in the hole. He was going to use them to say 'look there were crimes, with convictions, and circumstantial evidence connects Trump so he must talk to us'.
If these Concord baws drag their nuts across Mueller's face - it's an absolute death blow to Mueller. I mean, he's already bleeding out from a thousand cuts, but this would be more than a mere flesh wound.
Posted on 5/5/18 at 10:09 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
quote:LSUTigersVCURams
Der Tiger
Posted on 5/5/18 at 10:11 pm to starsandstripes
What’s the Rule 41 equivalent in criminal? Can he just dismiss these indictments?
Posted on 5/5/18 at 10:11 pm to starsandstripes
Mueller apparently has forgotten how discovery in a criminal case works.
This ain't no star chamber Bob. You sought (and obtained) indictments...now it's time to play.
Vincent Gambini even knows how this shite works.
This ain't no star chamber Bob. You sought (and obtained) indictments...now it's time to play.
Vincent Gambini even knows how this shite works.
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