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Uranium One Illegalities -- Mueller, Weissmann, Rosenstein Involved Up To Their Eyeballs
Posted on 11/4/17 at 4:02 am
Posted on 11/4/17 at 4:02 am
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The Obama Administration’s Uranium One Scandal
by Andrew C. McCarthy
October 21, 2017
Let’s put the Uranium One scandal in perspective: The cool half-million bucks the Putin regime funneled to Bill Clinton was five times the amount it spent on those Facebook ads — the ones the media-Democrat complex ludicrously suggests swung the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump.
The Facebook-ad buy, which started in June 2015 — before Donald Trump entered the race — was more left-wing agitprop (ads pushing hysteria on racism, immigration, guns, etc.) than electioneering. The Clintons’ own long-time political strategist Mark Penn estimates that just $6,500 went to actual electioneering. (You read that right: 65 hundred dollars.) By contrast, the staggering $500,000 payday from a Kremlin-tied Russian bank for a single speech was part of a multi-million-dollar influence-peddling scheme to enrich the former president and his wife, then–secretary of state Hillary Clinton. At the time, Russia was plotting — successfully — to secure U.S. government approval for its acquisition of Uranium One, and with it, tens of billions of dollars in U.S. uranium reserves.
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The Racketeering Scheme
As Tenam’s general director, Mikerin was responsible for arranging and managing Rosatom/Tenex’s contracts with American uranium purchasers. This gave him tremendous leverage over the U.S. companies. With the assistance of several confederates, Mikerin used this leverage to extort and defraud the U.S. contractors into paying inflated prices for uranium. They then laundered the proceeds through shell companies and secret bank accounts in Latvia, Cyprus, Switzerland, and the Seychelle Islands — though sometimes transactions were handled in cash, with the skim divided into envelopes stuffed with thousands of dollars in cash.
The inflated payments served two purposes: They enriched Kremlin-connected energy officials in the U.S. and in Russia to the tune of millions of dollars; and they compromised the American companies that paid the bribes, rendering players in U.S. nuclear energy — a sector critical to national security — vulnerable to blackmail by Moscow.
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At the time this unidentified man became an informant, the FBI was led by director Robert Mueller, who is now the special counsel investigating whether Trump colluded with Russia. The investigation was centered in Maryland (Tenam’s home base). There, the U.S. attorney was Obama appointee Rod Rosenstein — now President Trump’s deputy attorney general, and the man who appointed Mueller as special counsel to investigate Trump.
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A Sweetheart Plea Helps the Case Disappear
Even though the FBI had an informant collecting damning information, and had a prosecutable case against Mikerin by early 2010, the extortion racket against American energy companies was permitted to continue into the summer of 2014. It was only then that, finally, Mikerin and his confederates were arrested.
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Still, a lid needed to be kept on the case. It would have made for an epic Obama administration scandal, and a body blow to Hillary Clinton’s presidential hopes, if in the midst of Russia’s 2014 aggression, public attention had been drawn to the failure, four years earlier, to prosecute a national-security case in order to protect Russia’s takeover of U.S. nuclear assets.
The Obama administration needed to make this case go away — without a public trial if at all possible.
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Mikerin was arrested on a complaint describing a racketeering scheme that stretched back to 2004 and included extortion, fraud, and money laundering. Yet he was permitted to plead guilty to a single count of money-laundering conspiracy. Except it was not really money-laundering conspiracy.
Under federal law, that crime (at section 1956 of the penal code) carries a penalty of up to 20 years’ imprisonment — not only for conspiracy but for each act of money laundering. But Mikerin was not made to plead guilty to this charge. He was permitted to plead guilty to an offense charged under the catch-all federal conspiracy provision (section 371)
The Justice Department instructs prosecutors that when Congress has given a federal offense its own conspiracy provision with a heightened punishment (as it has for money laundering, racketeering, narcotics trafficking, and other serious crimes), they may not charge a section 371 conspiracy. Section 371 is for less serious conspiracy cases. Using it for money laundering — which caps the sentence way below Congress’s intent for that behavior — subverts federal law and signals to the court that the prosecutor does not regard the offense as major.
Yet, that is exactly what Rosenstein’s office did, in a plea agreement his prosecutors co-signed with attorneys from the Justice Department’s Fraud Section. (See in the Hill’s report, the third document embedded at the bottom, titled “Mikerin Plea Deal.”) No RICO, no extortion, no fraud — and the plea agreement is careful not to mention any of the extortions in 2009 and 2010, before CFIUS approved Rosatom’s acquisition of U.S. uranium stock. Mikerin just had to plead guilty to a nominal “money laundering” conspiracy charge.
Interestingly, as the plea agreement shows, the Obama DOJ’s Fraud Section was then run by Andrew Weissmann, who is now one of the top prosecutors in Robert Mueller’s ongoing special-counsel investigation of suspected Trump collusion with Russia.
There was still one other problem to tamp down. That was the informant — the lobbyist who alerted the FBI to the Russian racketeering enterprise back in 2009. He wanted to talk. Specifically, as his attorney, Ms. Toensing, explains, the informant wanted to tell Congress what he knows — about what the FBI and the Justice Department could already have proved in 2010 when CFIUS signed off on Russia’s acquisition of American nuclear material, and about what he’d learned of Russian efforts to curry favor with Bill and Hillary Clinton.
But he was not allowed to talk. It turns out, the lawyer explains, that the FBI had induced him to sign a non-disclosure agreement. The Justice Department warned him that it was enforceable — even against disclosures to Congress.
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Posted on 11/4/17 at 4:05 am to NC_Tigah
Can someone cliff notes what this is all about?
Posted on 11/4/17 at 4:18 am to olddawg26
quote:Those were the cliff notes.
Can someone cliff notes what this is all about?
Here are the cliff notes to the cliffnotes:
It appears (in conjunction with Russians) Mueller, Weissmann, and Rosenstein conspired to break the law, and cover it up.
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“The Russians were compromising American contractors in the nuclear industry with kickbacks and extortion threats, all of which raised legitimate national security concerns. And none of that evidence got aired before the Obama administration made those decisions,” a person who worked on the case told The Hill, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution by U.S. or Russian officials.
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The investigation was ultimately supervised by then-U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein, an Obama appointee who now serves as President Trump’s deputy attorney general, and then-Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe, now the deputy FBI director under Trump, Justice Department documents show.
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“Not providing information on a corruption scheme before the Russian uranium deal was approved by U.S. regulators and engage appropriate congressional committees has served to undermine U.S. national security interests by the very people charged with protecting them,” he said. “The Russian efforts to manipulate our American political enterprise is breathtaking.”
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Posted on 11/4/17 at 4:21 am to NC_Tigah
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then-Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe
Where have we seen this name before?
Posted on 11/4/17 at 4:30 am to Strannix
quote:Exactly.
Where have we seen this name before?
This all occurred as hundreds of thousands of dollars were funneled by Clinton loyalists to McCabe's wife's political campaign.
Posted on 11/4/17 at 4:34 am to NC_Tigah
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It appears (in conjunction with Russians) Mueller, Weissmann, and Rosenstein conspired to break the law, and cover it up.
You are really surprising me. No where in this article does it state this or even hint that this is the case.
Posted on 11/4/17 at 4:43 am to Toddy
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No where in this article does it state this or even hint that this is the case.
quote:Understand the plea deal was led by the same POS Weissmann who by comparison has a history of atrocious prosecutorial overreach.
He was permitted to plead guilty to an offense charged under the catch-all federal conspiracy provision (section 371) that criminalizes agreements to commit any crime against the United States. Section 371 prescribes a sentence of zero to five years’ imprisonment.
The Justice Department instructs prosecutors that when Congress has given a federal offense its own conspiracy provision with a heightened punishment (as it has for money laundering, racketeering, narcotics trafficking, and other serious crimes), they may not charge a section 371 conspiracy.
Posted on 11/4/17 at 4:46 am to NC_Tigah
IIRC 700k was funneled to Mrs. McCabe for a STATE Senate race, and I believe she had zero political experience. It was like “hey you wanna run for state senate? Here’s 700k from the Clinton’s good luck”
Posted on 11/4/17 at 4:58 am to Strannix
Put Howdy Gowdy on this. That guy will destroy anyone he questions.
Posted on 11/4/17 at 5:03 am to NC_Tigah
Are we finally getting a break?
Will the real corruption be looked at instead of the distraction of the fake corruption?
Will the real corruption be looked at instead of the distraction of the fake corruption?
Posted on 11/4/17 at 5:19 am to NC_Tigah
They ones investigating are the crooks, how speeecial.
Posted on 11/4/17 at 6:06 am to NC_Tigah
when are we going to have some comercials,with James Woods and an 800 number
This has got to be good investment shite.. are the big fish cuttin our asses out?
we have a perfect minted coin,with Obama on one side, Hillary on the other,clad in 20% uranium,to commemorate when things went past just being selfish politicians.
This has got to be good investment shite.. are the big fish cuttin our asses out?
we have a perfect minted coin,with Obama on one side, Hillary on the other,clad in 20% uranium,to commemorate when things went past just being selfish politicians.
Posted on 11/4/17 at 6:13 am to Strannix
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IIRC 700k was funneled to Mrs. McCabe for a STATE Senate race, and I believe she had zero political experience. It was like “hey you wanna run for state senate? Here’s 700k from the Clinton’s good luck”
I wonder how much of that 700K was really used for such a trivial office and how much of it was re-routed to Clinton coffers, or used for personal 'expenses' such as travel to exotic vacation spots.
Posted on 11/4/17 at 6:17 am to auggie
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we have a perfect minted coin,with Obama on one side, Hillary on the other,clad in 20% uranium,to commemorate when things went past just being selfish politicians.
Not exported out of the Contiguous 57 States*
* well ok, maybe some will be exported to Canada and Europe**
**ok, we will let them pass them on to other countries, but you’ll need a signature. Maybe.
This post was edited on 11/4/17 at 6:18 am
Posted on 11/4/17 at 6:21 am to Statestreet
We wouldn't want the American Dream,to be only for Americans... would we?
Posted on 11/4/17 at 6:27 am to NC_Tigah
I guess Jeff Sessions doesn't feel suicidal or doesn't want a gym accident to happen cause up to this point he's done nothing. Guess he knows what happens to those who investigate Clintons
Posted on 11/4/17 at 8:13 am to tigerfootball10
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or doesn't want a gym accident to happen
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