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.
FBI informant William D. Campbell told reporters in November that he has video of briefcases full of money in the Uranium One bribery scheme, a controversy Hillary Clinton was also involved.
We should have the Hillary political contributions list on bookmark for quick cross reference.
Well that’s that. If I had any doubts this is going nowhere I don’t any more. An Obongo Judge handling the Uranium case. Don’t forget Rats never recuse. Never.
I’m not sure how these fit together.
Laundering Suit Ends as Russian Firm, U.S. Claim Victory (May 2017)
The U.S. agreed to take $5.9 million to settle a money-laundering lawsuit tied to a $230 million Russian tax fraud, avoiding a trial that was set to begin Monday.
Both the U.S. and a Cyprus-based company controlled by a Russian businessman claimed victory in avoiding a trial that promised to shed light on an intricate web of shell companies and middlemen that were allegedly used to spirit dirty money out of Russia in violation of international financial regulations.
“Prevezon Targeted
The U.S. claimed the Manhattan condo was bought with a chunk of $230 million from fraudulent Russian tax refunds, linked to the Hermitage affair through Prevezon. The government was targeting Prevezon, owned by Moscow businessman Denis Katsyv, and 11 of its related companies in the forfeiture case. Katsyv, son of an ex-Moscow transportation minister, is involved in the firms along with Russian colleague Timofey Krit and Israeli businessman Alexander Litvak, according to court filings. Prevezon didn’t admit wrongdoing in the settlement.”
Look up George Webb on YouTube. He has been on this for months.
“This settlement is nothing short of a victory for Prevezon,” Faith Gay, a lawyer for the company, said in a phone interview. “It’s almost an apology by the government.”
This jerk also stopped Trumps travel ban.
The last-minute deal comes against a backdrop of diplomatic tensions and enormous interest in the illicit movement of Russian money. FBI Director James Comey was fired last week in the midst of a probe of Russia’s influence over the U.S. presidential elections and U.S. prosecutors are also looking into how wealthy Russians may have moved as much as $10 billion out of the country earlier this decade through Deutsche Bank AG, which has since conceded massive compliance lapses.
I’m curious why the Democrat Senators opposed his appointment.
“This jerk also stopped Trump’s travel ban.”
You are correct
Federal Judge In Maryland Blocks Trump’s Latest Travel Ban Attempt (NPR)
October 18, 2017
The plaintiffs “have established that they are likely to succeed on the merits,” District Judge Theodore D. Chuang wrote in the Tuesday order dealing another setback to the Trump administration’s attempt to ban travel to the U.S. by citizens of certain countries.
In his ruling, Chuang wrote that President Trump’s own tweets helped convince him that the latest policy is an “inextricable re-animation of the twice-enjoined Muslim ban” that Trump called for on the campaign trail and is therefore likely to be found unconstitutional.
Probably has a Summer Home next to Hillary’s
In a letter to Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairwoman Kristine Svinicki, Senate Environment & Public Works Committee Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) is demanding an explanation for how U.S. uranium left the country after the Uranium One deal.
The senator, who represents the home state of three of the company’s uranium recovery facilities, said he registered “strong concerns” about the 2010 deal with President Barack Obama. He said he now believes the response he received, and the “process” through which he received it, were “misleading.”
He notes that in March of 2011, then-NRC Chairman Greg Jaczko said that neither Uranium One nor the subsidiary of the Russian-government-owner Rosatom held the necessary export license to ship U.S. uranium out of the country. That assessment was repeated in the NRC’s recommendation to approve the Uranium One sale.
However, beginning in 2012, Uranium One was able to begin exporting uranium without an export license in a move called “piggy-backing,” where it was listed merely as a supplier on another company’s export license.
However, that uranium that left the country was supposed to return for “future processing.”Not only did that uranium leave the U.S., but it was eventually exported out of Canada (home base of Clinton crony Frank Giustra).
The pearls! Grab them!
He did it twice (This is the second time the Judge tried to block the travel ban.)
Judge Theodore D. Chang rules against Donald Trump’s Muslim ban
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/18/judge-theodore-d-chang-rules-against-donald-trumps/
The Washington Times - Wednesday, October 18, 2017
President Trump’s Twitter account landed him into trouble yet again Wednesday, with a federal judge using a recent tweet about shooting terrorists with bullets dipped in pigs’ blood to prove Mr. Trump still maintains “religious animus” toward Muslims — and therefore his latest travel ban is illegal.
Judge Theodore D. Chuang, an Obama appointee to the U.S. District Court in Maryland, issued a ruling early Wednesday enjoining the administration from carrying out the latest iteration of the travel ban, issued in September.
Judge Chuang said the latest attempt at Mr. Trump’s “extreme vetting” travel ban, issued in a proclamation in late September, suffers from the same problems as two earlier travel ban executive orders because it still targets Muslim countries for severe restrictions, without giving enough of a justification.
“The proclamation’s ban generally resembles President Trump’s earlier description of the Muslim ban,” Judge Chuang wrote in his 91-page ruling.
The Justice Department had argued there was nothing anti-Muslim about the latest version of the policy, and pointed to Mr. Trump’s speech earlier this year in Saudi Arabia praising Islam as evidence there is no animus.
“The proclamation’s ban generally resembles President Trump’s earlier description of the Muslim ban,” Judge Chuang wrote in his 91-page ruling.
The Justice Department had argued there was nothing anti-Muslim about the latest version of the policy, and pointed to Mr. Trump’s speech earlier this year in Saudi Arabia praising Islam as evidence there is no animus.
But Judge Chuang said that speech didn’t repudiate the president’s past statements. And in fact, the president made things worse with an August tweet where the president suggested terrorists could be handled by shooting them with bullets dipped in the blood of pigs, which Islam teaches are ritually impure.
Trump needs our help to get the judicial corruption in the news.
Per Newsweek
Starting in the 1990s, Chuang also worked as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, and later as an assistant U.S. attorney in Massachusetts. He also held leadership positions with the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center, which provides services to low-income Asian Americans and immigrants; the Asian American Lawyers Association of Massachusetts; and the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of the Greater Washington, D.C., area. Like Watson, Chuang graduated from Harvard Law School, and he edited the Harvard Law Review.
Eugene Ho, the current president of Asian American Lawyers Association of Massachusetts, says Chuang continues to have a reputation there as someone who “was always very public-interest oriented.” Ho adds: “What I understood of him was he was always an extraordinarily thoughtful person and a person that thought very deeply about how things affected the public. A very big-picture guy.”
Chuang worked at the State Department During the Benghazi Hearings
As Congress was investigating the terrorist attack that occurred at the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, Chuang was working as legal counsel for the U.S. State Department. He was in charge of providing legal guidance to the department as Congress was investigating the attack.
When Chuang was nominated to serve on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Republicans opposed his nomination, saying that he had a role in “stonewalling” Congress’ Benghazi investigation.
“His job at the State Department was to provide legal guidance and manage the department’s responses to the congressional investigation into the terrorist attack,” Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said in a statement. “For months, the State Department ignored congressional inquiries. That forced the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to issue subpoenas in August 2013. Mr. Chuang received those duly issued subpoenas, but continued the administration’s policy of systematic stonewalling.”
Grassley goes on to say that Chuang’s “role in coordinating the administration’s responses was plainly unsatisfactory and unacceptable” and that “[f]or this reason, I have decided to oppose this nomination.”
Chuang was ultimately confirmed, but every single Republican in the entire Senate voted against him. On the other hand, Derrick Watson, the first judge to file a restraining order against the travel ban this week, was unanimously confirmed.
Impartiality of Federal Judge Who Blocked Trump EO May Be in Question
Theodore Chuang, the Federal District Judge for the District of Maryland who halted most elements of President Trump’s latest executive order temporarily banning travel from six Middle Eastern countries, as well as refugees from all countries, served as deputy general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2014.
His March 15 ruling in the case, International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) v.Trump, in which DHS, the State Department, and President Trump are defendants, raises legitimate questions about whether he should have recused himself from hearing the case in the first place.
Title 28, Part I, Chapter 21, Section 455 (a) “Disqualification of justice, judge, or magistrate judge” of the U.S. Code Annotated reads as follows: (28 U.S. Code § 455 )
Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.
The Public Advisory Opinions concerning ethical standards of federal judges offer little further guidance on this particular standard.
Also per the Breitbart article reference above
“Judge Chuang’s ruling on Trump’s executive order should be viewed as a continuation of his service to the Democratic party, including his role in stonewalling Congress’ investigation of the Benghazi attacks, and to the cause of ‘social justice.’ With judges as unprincipled as Chuang, his Hawaii counterpart, and the leftists who dominate the Ninth Circuit, one wonders whether the rule of law has a future in America,” respected attorney Paul Mirengoff wrote at Powerline Blog:
Chuang came here to work in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department — ground zero for left-wing activism in government.
Before that, he clerked for a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals — ground zero for left-wing judicial activism. It is the Ninth Circuit, of course, that ruled against Trump’s original immigration/travel order, and that planted the seed for the absurd argument that the order somehow violates the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
You have to hand it to the leftists. They know how to shop for judges.
Even legal scholars affiliated with the liberal Brookings Institute posed serious questions about the March 15 decisions from Chuang in Maryland and Watson in Hawaii.
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