Posted on 09/25/2021 5:20:08 PM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON (AP) - A prominent cybersecurity lawyer on Friday pleaded not guilty to making a false statement to the FBI in a charge stemming from a probe of the U.S. government’s investigation into Russian election interference.
Michael Sussman appeared Friday in D.C. federal court before Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui. He is just the second person to be prosecuted by special counsel John Durham in two-and-a-half years of work.
The indictment accuses Sussmann of lying to the FBI when he was questioned about a September 2016 conversation he had with the FBI’s general counsel in which he relayed concerns from cybersecurity researchers about potentially suspicious contacts between Russia-based Alfa Bank and a Trump Organization server.
The FBI looked into the matter but found no connections. Sussmann is a former federal prosecutor who specializes in cybersecurity. He resigned this week from the firm Perkins Coie.
Sussmann’s lawyers, Sean Berkowitz and Michael Bosworth, said their client is a highly respected national security lawyer and they were confident he would prevail at trial and “vindicate his good name.”
No case brought by Durham so far undoes the core finding of an earlier investigation by Robert Mueller that Russia had interfered in sweeping fashion on behalf of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and that the Trump campaign welcomed that aid.
The Alfa Bank matter was not a pivotal element of the Russia probe and was not even mentioned in Mueller’s 448-page report in 2019. Still, the indictment may give fodder to Russia investigation critics who regard it as politically tainted and engineered by Democrats.
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Not yet, but his time is running short.
“No case brought by Durham so far undoes the core finding of an earlier investigation by Robert Mueller that Russia had interfered in sweeping fashion on behalf of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and that the Trump campaign welcomed that aid.”
They didn’t read the indictment. It mentions an unnamed IT company. I am betting that is Crowdstrike. Crowdstrike faked it, then it undoes everything Mueller (who didn’t ever investigate the DNC server or get Seth Rich’s laptop from the FBI) told everyone.
Sussman is high up, and his guilt would open up his law firm for investigation of racketeering. That law firm has represented OBAMA and all the democrats. That would be so awesome if the special council could go in and get all those records like they did with Trump’s lawyer. The precedent set by those federal actions plays out down the road.
Finally, someone sees the Importance of this indictment.
Thank you and congratulations.
Hmm, it seems to me that since Sussman says he didn’t work for The Beast, there is no attorney-client privilege.
So . . . neither of them can hide or refuse to testify(?)
The indictment clearly states that acts of the conspiracy were carried out in a venue outside of Washington DC.
HOORAY!
Durham found a way to bypass attorney-client privilege, that enabled him to obtain Sussman's Perkins Coie billing records. Those records show that Sussman worked for the Clinton campaign and for "Tech Executive 1."
Much more detail here:
https://shipwreckedcrew.substack.com/p/the-sussmann-indictment-reads-like?justPublished=true
Yeah, I knew all that.
But until the billing records become a “fact” of the case in a court of law, it seems to me there isn’t any privilege foe HILLARY to declare.
Yes, all the democrats and the CCP, for a long time! (...But I repeat myself.)
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