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To: WildHighlander57; All

I found the article on that indictment - it is in a DOJ press release dated May 10, 2019. I’ll put the DOJ description of the indictment and links below:

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Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, May 10, 2019

Entertainer/Businessman and Malaysian Financier Indicted for Conspiring to Make and Conceal Foreign and Conduit Contributions During 2012 U.S. Presidential Election

A United States entertainer and businessman and a Malaysian financier were charged in a four-count indictment unsealed today in the District of Columbia for conspiring to make and conceal foreign and conduit campaign contributions during the United States presidential election in 2012, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, 46, and Low Taek Jho, 37, also known as “Jho Low,” were charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States government and for making foreign and conduit campaign contributions. Michel also was charged with one count of a scheme to conceal material facts and two counts of making a false entry in a record in connection with the conspiracy. Michel appeared today for his arraignment before U.S. Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey in the District of Columbia. Low remains at large.

According to the indictment, between June 2012 and November 2012, Low directed the transfer of approximately $21,600,000 from foreign entities and accounts to Michel for the purpose of funneling significant sums of money into the United States presidential election as purportedly legitimate contributions, all while concealing the true source of the money. To facilitate the excessive contributions and conceal their true source, Michel paid approximately $865,000 of the money received from Low to about 20 straw donors, or conduits, so that the straw donors could make donations in their names to a presidential joint fundraising committee. In addition, Michel personally directed more than $1 million of the money received from Low to an independent expenditure committee also involved in the presidential election in 2012.

The indictment also alleges that by funneling campaign contributions through straw donors, Michel caused a presidential joint fundraising committee to submit false reports to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), including a false amended report in June 2013. The committee’s reports were false because they identified the straw donors, rather than Low or Michel, as the true source of the contributions. In addition, the indictment alleges that by contributing more than $1 million of the money he received from Low to an independent expenditure committee, Michel also caused that committee to submit false reports to the FEC, insofar as those reports identified Michel as the source of the contributions when, in fact, it was Low. The indictment further alleges that in June 2015, Michel submitted a false declaration to the FEC in which he claimed that he had no reason to conceal the true source of his contributions to the independent expenditure committee in 2012, even though Michel knew that the true source of that money was Low and that Michel had funneled the foreign money into the election.

Low was indicted previously, along with former banker Ng Chong Hwa, also known as “Roger Ng,” in the Eastern District of New York for conspiring to launder billions of dollars and to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. That case remains pending.

An indictment is merely a charge and defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

The FBI’s International Corruption Squad in New York is investigating the case. Trial Attorneys Sean F. Mulryne and Nicole Lockhart of the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section are prosecuting the case.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/entertainerbusinessman-and-malaysian-financier-indicted-conspiring-make-and-conceal-foreign


581 posted on 05/11/2019 10:08:44 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

UPDATE: You may want to skip the information below the double lines - it was a trail of documents I was following before I discovered the indictment for a corrupt DHS official (Ciccione, who was charged in September 2017), was based on his unlawfully getting an indictment dropped against a drug cartel kingpin (PIEDRAHITA) in exchange for money, prostitutes etc. That drug kingpin was a fugitive until October, 2011.

“PIEDRAHITA remained a fugitive on these charges from the time he was indicted on June 20, 1996, through October 21, 2011, when Indictment #93-470 was dismissed.”

So that must mean the dirty DHS agent who got charges dismissed way back in 2011 thought he got away with it until one Donald J Trump became president and then BAM! 6 months later he himself is indicted! HOW MANY CROOKS like this dirty DHS agent has the Trump Administration investigated, indicted etc? They went back 6 years??? That had to frighten alot of government criminals who thought they got away with things YEARS before POTUS arrived.

FANTASTIC! I like the smell of back-dated PAIN in the evening!

Here’s DHS agent Ciccione’s indictment:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/999442/download

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Checking the DOJ press releases for May 10, 2019, I also see the following:

“Colombian Narcotics Kingpin Pleads Guilty for Bribing Former Federal Agent to Dismiss Indictment

A Colombian Cali Cartel cocaine trafficker pleaded guilty today for bribing a former Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent to secure the dismissal of a drug trafficking indictment filed against him, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

Jose Bayron Piedrahita-Ceballos, 60, of Medellin, Colombia, was extradited from the Republic of Colombia on April 5, 2019, and will be sentenced on July 19, 2019, before U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola Jr. of the Southern District of Florida.”

There’s more at the link.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/colombian-narcotics-kingpin-pleads-guilty-bribing-former-federal-agent-dismiss-indictment
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I wondered if that corrupt Homeland Security Agent, who surely must have been caught too, was working on Obama’s watch or on POTUS’. I tried to find out by looking for an arrest document.

I found an article in the FederalTimes.com dated September 2017 when they were charged, but that didn’t state when the crimes occurred either. Just curious - I know POTUS hit the ground running - his administration has been busy, busy, busy. Here’s an excerpt and a link:

“A Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agent has been charged with aiding Colombian drug traffickers.
Special Agent Christopher V. Ciccione II, 52, and two Colombian nationals were charged by a federal grand jury in Florida with conspiracy, corruption and obstruction of justice. Ciccione allegedly participated in a bribery scheme that resulted in charges being dismissed against one of the Colombians.”

https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/doj-fbi/2017/09/28/dhs-agent-accused-of-working-with-colombian-drug-traffickers/
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I found a little more on the DOJ website from Sept. 2017 regarding the Homeland SEcurity agent, Christopher V. Ciccione:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-agent-colombian-narcotics-kingpin-and-colombian-national-indicted-conspiracy
“The indictment further alleges that while maintaining contact with Piedrahita, Ciccione misled the U.S. Attorney’s Office and HSI management and altered DHS records to represent to decision makers that Piedrahita was “unidentified” and that his case should be dismissed because “all investigative efforts” were “exhausted.” In addition, Ciccone falsified the concurrence of several other federal agents and even attempted to parole Piedrahita into the U.S. “


584 posted on 05/11/2019 10:39:23 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote
"so that the straw donors could make donations in their names to a presidential joint fundraising committee."

Gosh, two articles failing to mention the name of the presidential candidate. (yeah)

598 posted on 05/12/2019 1:24:47 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: ransomnote; outofsalt

Many thanks, MoD !

Outofsalt agreed that ‘candidate A’ was 0


615 posted on 05/12/2019 6:42:02 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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