Posted on 09/21/2021 5:12:34 PM PDT by bitt
It does not take 27 pages to allege a "false statement" charge -- but it does if you are alleging a conspiracy to create false documents to influence a federal investigation.
What to make of the indictment by Special Counsel John Durham of former Clinton Campaign attorney Michael Sussmann, a one-time partner in the go-to-for-all-legal-needs Democrat Party law firm of Perkins Coie?
Typically, a “false statement” indictment will consist of a brief description of how the federal investigators came to ask the question, the answer given by the defendant which is alleged to be false, and what a truthful answer would have been.
If you want an example of what a typical such indictment might look like, it’s right there in Sussmann indictment — read paragraph 46:
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That is all one needs for a single count indictment charging a defendant with a violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1001. That paragraph tells the defendant the date and location of the offense and the specifics of the offense conduct.
Paragraphs 1 through 44 were not necessary to charge Sussmann. That makes what Durham returned a “speaking indictment.” It discloses information in a public document that would not otherwise be known if the indictment set forth only facts needed to meet the requirements of due process.
A “false statement” charge does not require a litany of factual allegations regarding the conduct and statements of the defendant and numerous third parties over the course of weeks or months leading up to the making of the false statement. In over 30 years of practice as both a federal prosecutor and a defense attorney specializing in federal cases, I’ve never before seen anything remotely resembling the Sussmann indictment in a single count “false statement” case.
John Durham is far too serious of a career prosecutor, with a very long and established record of meticulous investigation and preparation, to have rolled out an indictment in this fashion if he was intending to wrap up the remainder of his work with a report to the Attorney General.
I’m going to save for another story a comprehensive look at what Durham has alleged in paragraphs 1 through 44. The allegations take my thinking in many different directions at the same time. There are probably a dozen or more “strings” hanging off the facts he has alleged — some legal and some more in the “court of public opinion.”
I waited four days to publish this first piece, spending much of that time going back over the entire “Alfa Bank” story since it first broke in late October 2016, less than 2 weeks before the election. Trying to understand the new information in the indictment against the backdrop of what was uncovered about the original story in 2016 and 2016 — and then cross-referencing the timeline and actors against what is now known about Crossfire Hurricane and the Mueller Special Counsel Investigation — is a task worthy of a book.
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shipwreckedcrew is awesome. I read his stuff regularly. He’s like non-Qook weaponized autism.
Under a RICO conviction PC could lose its attorney-client privilege.
The clients, with all their dirty laundry exposed could file suit, assuming they aren’t in jail.
Well maybe Durham is the person who can finally bring them down. I think Shipwreckedcrew also mentioned that this indictment also touched on something that links it to the Seth Rich case too. That would be two lines of evidence that seem to lead directly too hillary, John Podesta and probably a lot of others too. Considering all this, I hope Durham and his most important witnesses have 24/7/365 protection because this indictment is like a dagger pointed straight at hillary. As such I would suspect the clinton’s hitmen are working overtime on the Durham problem or we might start seeing headlines like this:
“INDICTED FORMER CLINTON CAMPAIGN ATTORNEY MICHAEL SUSSMAN FOUND DEAD, SUICIDE SUSPECTED”.
Just kidding, the clinton’s have never had people killed to hid their corruption, nah, never happened, they’re pure as the driven snow. Just ask them, they’ll tell ya.
Your post reads remarkably identical to another I read today.
HA!!! I didnt see the Seth RICH THING! THAT IS IMPORTANT. THANKS!!
Moriarty always with the negative waves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyh-JpWdGmQ
Hopefully you’re wrong. Only time will tell. There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging the fact that this is positive news. Especially when one considers the fact that there are so many Negative Nellies and Moriarty’s who will never acknowledge that anything could ever possibly be a positive development.
This indictment could have been one paragraph long. Instead it covers 27 pages. A conspiracy is exactly what Durham’s Sussmann indictment is about. We have Sussmann, a lawyer for Hillary’s campaign, lying to the FBI about who he represented in order to convince them to investigate as fact the contents of a fake dossier, commissioned by Hillary’s campaign, so that the FBI could lie to a federal court, in order to indict the incoming president on trumped-up charges. This indictment can do nothing but surround more of the conspirators.
This indictment could have been one paragraph long. Instead it covers 27 pages. A conspiracy is exactly what Durham’s Sussmann indictment is about. We have Sussmann, a lawyer for Hillary’s campaign, lying to the FBI about who he represented in order to convince them to investigate as fact the contents of a fake dossier, commissioned by Hillary’s campaign, so that the FBI could lie to a federal court, in order to indict the incoming president on trumped-up charges. This indictment can do nothing but surround more of the conspirators.
What a helpful attitude.
This is much more political than just mobster or even financial conspiracy stuff, and I think it will be more like Watergate. Hillary is so washed up that I doubt she’ll pay the price, and furthermore, she’ll throw all of them under the bus to protect herself. But I think some people will go to jail over this and I think that the days of Perkins Coie may be numbered.
All this sounds very, very good. Durham appears to be coming through.
Superb article. More like this please.
If Durham hasn't already found a horse's head in his bed he soon will.Mark my words.
PRAYERS!!
OK so the 5 year limitation was up and they had to charge Sussman, but apparently there are still more future events not yet revealed/understood involving thousands more treasonous ‘bass-stools’?
ESAD, but then maybe that’s what you infer by your freeper name?
There is a reason Durham wants a 27 page indictment out there when normally it would be about 5 pages. Yes, he could be receiving pushback from the administration. It could be because of the SOL. It could be a clue as to what could come. But it clearly shows that this show was not a one-man Sussman band.
If your delusion gives you comfort have at it.
If your delusion brings you comfort have at it. It’s probably less harmful than masturbation.
And FYI my screen name was assigned to me by the US Army 30 years ago.
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