Posted on 07/15/2019 10:04:01 AM PDT by Eurotwit
Fox News news analyst Ellen Ratner relayed information from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to Texas businessman Ed Butowsky regarding Seth Rich’s role in transferring emails to Wikileaks, according to an amended lawsuit that I filed this morning on behalf of Mr. Butowsky.
Although Ms. Ratner appears on Fox News, she is by no means a Republican or a conservative, and her role in the Seth Rich saga (like that of journalist Sy Hersh) obliterates the Democratic narrative that right-wing zealots fabricated the story about Mr. Rich leaking emails from the Democratic National Committee.
Mr. Rich, a DNC employee, was murdered in Washington, D.C. on July 10, 2016, and the murder remains unsolved. Here’s an excerpt from the amended suit (“RCH” stands for “Russian Collusion Hoax”):
45. Mr. Butowsky stumbled into the RCH crosshairs after Ellen Rattner [sic], a news analyst for Fox News and the White House correspondent for Talk Media News, contacted him in the Fall of 2016 about a meeting she had with Mr. Assange. Ms. Rattner’s brother, the late Michael Rattner, was an attorney who had represented Mr. Assange. According to Ms. Rattner, she made a stop in London during a return flight from Berlin, and she met with Mr. Assange for approximately six hours in the Ecuadorean embassy. Ms. Rattner said Mr. Assange told her that Seth Rich and his brother, Aaron, were responsible for releasing the DNC emails to Wikileaks. Ms. Rattner said Mr. Assange wanted the information relayed to Seth’s parents, as it might explain the motive for Seth’s murder.
46. Upon her return to the United States, Ms. Rattner asked Mr. Butowsky to contact the Rich family and relay the information from Mr. Assange, apparently because Ms. Rattner did not want her involvement to be made public. In the two months that followed, Mr. Butowsky did not attempt to contact the Rich family, but he grew increasingly frustrated as the DNC and #Resistance “journalists” blamed the Russian government for the email leak. On December 16, 2016, Mr. Butowsky sent a text message to Ms. Ratner:
BUTOWSKY [7:10 a.m.]: “Why don’t [sic] you speaking up about email hack?”
RATTNER [9:28 a.m.]: “I have”
Ms. Rattner subsequently told Mr. Butowsky that she had informed Bill Shine, who was then the co-president of Fox News, about her meeting with Mr. Assange in London. Ms. Rattner also informed Fox News producer Malia Zimmerman about her meeting with Mr. Assange.
47. On December 17, 2016, at the instigation of Ms. Rattner, Mr. Butowsky finally contacted Joel and Mary Rich, the parents of Seth, and he relayed the information about Ms. Rattner’s meeting with Mr. Assange. During that conversation, Mr. Rich told Mr. Butowsky that he already knew that his sons were involved in the DNC email leak, but he and his wife just wanted to know who murdered Seth. Mr. Rich said he was reluctant to go public with Seth’s and Aaron’s role in leaking the emails because “we don’t want anyone to think our sons were responsible for getting Trump elected.” Mr. Rich said he did not have enough money to hire a private investigator, so Mr. Butowsky offered to pay for one. Mr. Rich accepted the offer and thanked Mr. Butowsky in an email.
48. On December 29, 2016 at 1:51 p.m., Mr. Butowsky sent an email to Ms. Rattner from his iPad: “If the person you met with truly said what he did, is their [sic] a reason you we aren’t reporting it ?” At 3:48 p.m. that afternoon, Ms. Rattner responded as follows: “because— it was a family meeting—- I would have to get his permission– will ask his new lawyer, my sister-in-law.”
The complaint also mentions an interesting development in my ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI. The feds claimed they had no information pertaining to Seth Rich, but they appear to be changing their tune. Shortly after Attorney General William Barr announced plans to declassify documents related to the Russian Collusion Hoax, the FBI’s attorney informed me that new documents were being processed. I should receive them not later than July 22, 2019. The DNC’s objections to our subpoenas for “Russian hacking’ information are also due on July 22, 2019, and production is due on August 8, 2019.
The more I’ve reviewed the Seth Rich case, the more I’m convinced of its central role in the whole Russian Collusion Hoax. I believe DNC officials knew that the emails would become public as the result of an internal leak, and they knew that the emails would be very damaging, so they attempted to turn the tables by pointing fingers at Donald Trump and the Russians. Hopefully we will know more by next week.
“If the person you met with truly said what he did, is their [sic] a reason you we aren’t reporting it ?” At 3:48 p.m. that afternoon, Ms. Rattner responded as follows: “because— it was a family meeting—- I would have to get his permission– will ask his new lawyer, my sister-in-law.”
Wow! What a coincidence...his new lawyer, my sister-in-law.
I remember her as a shrew who would never look at the person she was actually speaking to. It’s been years since I’ve seen her, probably when Hillary was running in 2008, but that’s the one thing that always bothered me about Ratner when she was on.
“Ms. Rattner’s brother, the late Michael Rattner, was an attorney who had represented Mr. Assange.”
Yeah; I figured her brother had been mixed up in this the minute I saw her name on the post. That family ...
They've always tried to push this off as a random robbery, because other robberies had taken place in that area previously. Nothing was taken from Rich, and he was shot in the back. Questions I have never seen an answer to: Did any of those other robberies result in the victims being injured or murdered? Did they lose all their possessions, or did they fight off their attackers, and keep their possessions?
It reads like an 8th grade book report. Whether or not it was filed I have no clue!
Watch the brother closely.
It looks like he's trying not to laugh.
He looks off camera. Is someone telling him to cut it out?
Also, the father said Seth was on the phone when he was shot. When asked about the commotion, Seth said he was 'at home'.
Why did Seth lie about being home? Why didn't he just say he was walking down the street?
DNC Staffer Killed 'Wanted to Make a Difference,' Family Says
“Fox News news analyst Ellen Ratner relayed information from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to Texas businessman Ed Butowsky regarding Seth Rich’s role in transferring emails to Wikileaks, according to an amended lawsuit that I filed this morning on behalf of Mr. Butowsky.”
note the “I”?
this is a blog, people. a bogus, bullshit blog ... zero credibility ...
Nikk, someone who thinks as we do!
I strongly suspected he was the source.
Witness protection? It would explain a lot.
“He was alive when he was brought to the hospital, but was dead minutes later after they closed the exam room door!”
Plus, IIRC, the name of the doctor who was called in to “take care of” Seth Rich at the hospital was noted often on the White House visitors’ log.
There were emergency room personnel in the hospital room with Rich who had ties to the DNC. He was alive when he arrived and dead within minutes.
I am very familiar with the Ratner family from Cleveland, OH. They are the controlling stock holders of Forest City Enterprises(a fortune 500 company). They own commercial real estate all over our country. Ms. Ratner is one of their children. She literally was born with the silver spoon. They were a parent company of my company for years.
Reading through the legal document know, and it seems to give an answer to the post above:
On
information and belief, Mr. Butowksy alleges that Joel, Mary, and Aaron Rich were told
that Aaron could be charged with felony computer crimes if they did not cooperate with
their new handlers, i.e., Mr. Bauman and the lawyer Defendants.
Thanks for the info. She’s a rabid Democrat, and enough of a slug to have stuck her nose into the Seth Rich case. With all the tentacles of the Ratner family, who knows, maybe her family had ties to his family. Or, she met with Assange on request of the Clinton campaign. Assange allegedly asked her to pass on the info about Seth Rich to his family, and instead of contacting them directly, she gets Ed Butowsky to do her dirty work. I can believe she’d do that to keep her involvement a secret. You always get someone else to do your dirty work for you. And later, she could deny she ever told him to contact the Rich family. I wonder what her response will be in regards to Butowsky’s allegations.
If you believe this legal document, the brother was under extortion/blackmail...
On
information and belief, Mr. Butowksy alleges that Joel, Mary, and Aaron Rich were told
that Aaron could be charged with felony computer crimes if they did not cooperate with
their new handlers, i.e., Mr. Bauman and the lawyer Defendants.
Is Ellen related to...Steven Rattner?
[New Mexico’s gov] Richardson has one other direct tie to the investment scandal: Steven Rattner, the former head of Obama’s auto-bailout program, gave $5,000 to Richardson’s 2002 gubernatorial campaign and $15,000 to Richardson’s 2006 re-election bid.
Richardson heads the State Investment Council (SIC) which, in 2005, voted to invest $20 million with Quadrangle Group LLC. At the time of the 2002 and 2006 campaign contributions, Rattner was a managing principal in the company, which he left in February of this year to take the auto-bailout job.
Rattner recently left that post and is reportedly negotiating a settlement with the New York attorney general in order to avoid criminal charges in that state....——The New Mexico Independent
Mr. Rich was WARNED!
Well no big deal he has a brother, just first I’ve heard that he was also involved in the leak.
No, Mr. Rich. We understand why you didn't, and it had nothing to do with Trump being elected.
Now, the family's reluctance to bring out the truth makes more sense than ever. They already lost one son, and don't want to lose another. Aaron would be in real danger.
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