Posted on 01/12/2018 7:12:35 PM PST by bitt
The founder and owner of Frederick’s Dragon Distillery was indicted Friday for his alleged role in bribing a Russian atomic energy official to win government contracts for the company he formerly co-owned.
Mark Lambert, 54, of Mount Airy, faces 11 charges including violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and wire fraud, according to a U.S. Department of Justice statement released Friday.
“We categorically reject the charges and are eager to dispute and defeat them in court,” William M. Sullivan Jr., attorney for Lambert, said in an email Friday.
Lambert, who owns Dragon Distillery in Frederick, is the former co-president, along with Daren Condrey, of a Maryland-based nuclear fuel transportation company. The company, referred to as Transportation Company A in the indictment, provided logistical support for transporting nuclear materials in the United States and to foreign clients.
In the indictment unsealed Friday, prosecutors allege that Lambert and others concealed corrupt and fraudulent payments with fake invoices, offshore bank accounts and shell companies in Latvia, Cyprus and Switzerland, the release states.
Authorities believe that from at least 2009 to October 2014 Lambert and other company executives conspired to bribe Vadim Mikerin, an official at the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation subsidiary JSC Techsnabexport (TENEX), in order to secure contracts for transporting nuclear fuel, according to the Justice Department release.
TENEX, which supplies uranium and uranium enrichment services to international companies, wholly owned a U.S.-based company called TENAM Corporation, according to the indictment.
(Excerpt) Read more at truepundit.com ...
Notice when the criminal conspiracy began. Enter Left - Obama.
The Dept. of Energy was at one time in the Obama administration, led by a total fool name Lue. Even his bodyguards thoroughly disliked him.
Wonder what he knew and ignored.
How many more people?
Starting at the bottom of the chain. Plenty of time to plea bargain and make deals for informations on others.
Look out for suicides. .......!
Is this small-time sleaze ball going to spill his guts? Andrew McCarthy always talks about the strategy of first getting a cooperative guy to rat out the bigger dogs.
Times be getting interesting. Where’s Buckwheat?
he’s on a dave letterman show on netflix and making fun of Foxnews watchers...funny, he didn’t mention Free republic...
...and we are off to the races.
I cannot believe I’m the first to say it:
BOOM!
True Pundit is one of the least reliable sources out there. Outside of FR and Twitter exaggerators, they are basically considered laughable. Hopefully however they are onto something here, since it has been reported by others. But if anyone deserves credit for Uranium One, it is Peter Schweitzer first, and John Soloman/Sara Carter second.
Who is this Lambert in relation to Hillary?
ping
It wasn't the DOJ IG, it was the DOE IG.
FROM STEVE W’S POST
This guy was connected and a Putin scumbag at that. He got lucrative gig where he didn’t do much of anything, overcharged, and got paid $$$ by the Russians, all tied up in the mess.
Remember: “On October 2017, President Trump directed the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to lift a “gag order” it had placed on a former FBI informant involved the investigation. The DOJ released the informant from his nondisclosure agreement on October 25, 2017, authorizing him to provide the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, House Oversight Committee, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence “any information or documents he has concerning alleged corruption or bribery involving transactions in the uranium market” involving Rosatom, its subsidiaries Tenex and Uranium One, and the Clinton Foundation.”
TenAM.......TenEX.........TENEO????
Yes, maybe we’ll soon find out she DOES have Parkinson’s after all....poor thing.
And Hitlary’s impending indictment is when?
Yep, True Pundit gets it wrong again. Vadim Mikerin, Daren Condrey, and Boris Rubizhevsky were convicted of charges connected to Uranium One in December 2015.
Note that some same people were involved in the 2015 case:
“The DOE-OIG and FBI investigated the case. Trial Attorneys Christopher Cestaro, Ephraim Wernick and Derek Ettinger of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and Assistant U.S. Attorneys David I. Salem and Michael T. Packard and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Meghan A. Leibold of the District of Maryland prosecuted the case.”
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