Posted on 01/14/2018 7:24:15 AM PST by tired&retired
On Friday DOJ officials in the District of Maryland announced Mark Lambert from Mount Airy, Maryland was indicted with 11 counts related to foreign bribery.
The charges stem from an alleged scheme by Lambert to bribe Vadim Mikerin, a Russian official at JSC Techsnabexport (TENEX), a subsidiary of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation and the sole supplier and exporter of Russian Federation uranium and uranium enrichment services to nuclear power companies worldwide.
In June 2015, Lambert’s former co-president, Daren Condrey, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the FCPA and commit wire fraud, and Vadim Mikerin pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering involving violations of the FCPA.
The case against Lambert is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Theodore D. Chuang of the District of Maryland.
On September 25, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Chuang to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, to the seat being vacated by Judge Roger W. Titus, who took senior status on January 17, 2014. Chuang's nomination was strongly supported by Maryland's two U.S. senators, Ben Cardin and Barbara Mikulski.
Theodore David Chuang (born October 17, 1969) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and former Deputy General Counsel of the United States Department of Homeland Security.
He began his legal career as a law clerk for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, from 1994 to 1995. From 1995 to 1998, he served as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice. From 1998 to 2004, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts. He served as counsel at the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP in Washington, D.C. from 2004 to 2007. From 2007 to 2009, he was Deputy Chief Investigative Counsel for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. In 2009, he was Chief Investigative Counsel for the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. From 2009 until his confirmation as a federal judge in 2014, he served as Deputy General Counsel of the United States Department of Homeland Security.
Breitbart News posed three questions about Judge Chuang’s decision not to recuse himself in this case to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts:
(1) Did Judge Chuang’s failure to recuse himself from hearing the IRAP v Trump Complaint constitute a violation of 28 U.S. Code § 455 section (a) “disqualification of justice, judge, or magistrate judge”?
(2) Should Judge Chuang recuse himself from IRAP v Trump going forward?
(3) Will the U.S. Courts require Judge Chuang to recuse himself from IRAP v Trump going forward?
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts did not respond to these three questions, but did offer this on Tuesday morning:
“You may find the following advisory opinion helpful. Here’s the link and it’s also copied below, it’s Cannon 3C (e),” a spokesperson for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts tells Breitbart News:
http://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/code-conduct-united-states-judges#d
The link, the spokesperson subsequently confirmed, is not to an advisory opinion, but instead simply the same Statutory Code referenced earlier in this article.
This is the crooked Obama/Hillary Judge
Great job, to each of you for finding and posting these important new facts about he players involved. Thanks!
This is DC.
So where does the rest of the Chuang family have any baggage or connections to the DC power structure?
Seems like this nest vipers has spouses and/or paramours operating under the media’s klieg lights.
Republicans should judge shop just like the rats do.
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Well, if he needs a distraction democrats in Hawaii can set off the Sirens again...
Well, if he needs a distraction democrats in Hawaii can set off the Sirens again... AND the ‘intelligence services’ can feed the press stories to back up the ‘judge’...
We need Grassley to get on Hannity with this one...
It would make a good corruption show.
This is an excellent example of the “Deep State” in action.
Doesn’t matter—the treasonous, bribed sale of critical US assets to an international threat like that occurred on Obama’s watch. And there is far too much that Obama is liable for, including, if the Clintons go down, that he knowingly emailed her through her server.
And no Obama attorney in the DHS was anything but totally corrupt.
Is Webb pretty much understood to be Mossad-backed?
Read the federal judge’s ruling in Md. on Trump’s revised travel ban
U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang also blocked a critical section of Trump’s new executive order. ...
Pres. Trump is so right about the system being rigged. To put this Leftist judge, the only kind appointed by Obama, in charge is laughable. He probably has the “not guilty” opinion in his desk drawer before the trial starts.
Same Judge Chuang, working with the same “Deep State” in FBI and DOJ did the previous cases.....U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein
Per the court document
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Former Russian Nuclear Energy Official Sentenced to 48 Months in Prison for Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Violations
U.S. Conspirators Paid More Than $2 Million to Influence Russian Nuclear Energy Official and to Secure Business with State-Owned Russian Nuclear Energy Company
A former Russian official residing in Maryland was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with his role in arranging more than $2 million in corrupt payments to influence the awarding of contracts with a Russian state-owned nuclear energy corporation.
Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein of the District of Maryland, Deputy Inspector General for Investigations John R. Hartman of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Inspector General (DOE-OIG) and Assistant Director in Charge Paul M. Abbate of the FBI’s Washington Field Office made the announcement.
Vadim Mikerin, 56, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, was also ordered to forfeit $2,126,622.36 by U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang of the District of Maryland.
who picked the judge?
Theodore D. Chuang, the federal judge who ruled against President Trump’s revised travel ban Thursday, is himself the son of immigrants and a veteran of President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security.
Chuang, whose parents are from Taiwan, was selected for the court in 2013 as part of a new wave of younger judges nominated by Barack Obama.
Apart from a brief stint at a big Washington law firm Chuang has spent his entire career working in the government, starting out in the Justice Department’s civil rights unit after graduating from Harvard Law School in 1994. In 2009, he began working in the general counsel’s office at DHS.
Chuang’s confirmation in the Senate was not without controversy. An influential Republican Senator accused Chuang of having a role in frustrating Congressional efforts to investigate the death of a U.S. ambassador in Benghazi, Libya, while he was serving on a special assignment at the State Department. But Chuang had strong support from Maryland’s two Democratic Senators at the time, Ben Cardin and Barbara Mikulski.
“Mr. Chuang has a broad range of legal experience in all three branches of the federal government, and is the son of immigrants from Taiwan who came to America seeking freedom and a better life for their family,” Cardin said in a statement when Chuang was confirmed.
President Trump’s new travel ban
Trump signed the new executive order barring new visas for citizens from six Muslim-majority countries and shutting down the U.S. refugee program in private. http://bit.ly/2n6VKPR
Chuang was confirmed on a 53-42 vote. Another judge confirmed to the bench in Maryland the same day sailed through 95-0. Federal judges have life terms but typically retire in their 60s or 70s.
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