Posted on 09/02/2015 7:36:30 PM PDT by Nachum
The Washington Post reported Wednesday night that a former Hillary Clinton State Department staffer who reportedly set up her home brew server will invoke his Fifth Amendment rights and refuse to testify to Congressional committees investigating Clinton’s home email system.
Bryan Pagliano, though his attorney, informed the House Benghazi Select Committee which had subpoenaed him to testify on September 10, that he was declining to testify. The Post reported the letter cited the FBI investigation in to Clinton’s email system. Senate committees seeking Pagliano’s testimony were also informed he would be taking the Fifth.
““While we understand that Mr. Pagliano’s response to this subpoena may be controversial in the current political environment, we hope that the members of the Select Committee will respect our client’s right to invoke the protections of the Constitution,” his attorney, Mark MacDougall, wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
BUT MAKE HIM APPEAR, RIGHT! Don't let this POS, through his lawyer, avoid having to come before the committee and assert 5th Amendment privilege on camera! The optics are important.
Might he play..."Lets Make a Deal"?
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Attorney MacDougall appears to have been representing Clinton affiliates all the way back to ....
The John Huang, Riaddy, Lippo affair.
He was one of the attorneys representing Chinese donor Sioeng.
Great info...
Bryan Pagliano
More significantly, along with the new server came a technical specialist, Bryan Pagliano, pictured, who had worked as Clinton’s campaign’s IT director. According to federal campaign finance records, Pagliano was paid by Clinton’s Senate leadership PAC through April 2009. The next month, he went to work for the State Department as an IT specialist.
The people briefed on the server indicated that Pagliano continued to act as the lead specialist responsible for Clinton’s personal server even while he was employed by the Department of State. The e-mail system was not always reliable, these people said, with Pagliano summoned at various times to fix problems. Notably, the system crashed for days after New York was hit by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, while Hillary Clinton was still secretary of state. It is unclear what email system the secretary used to conduct the nation’s diplomatic business with during that period.
http://wemeantwell.com/blog/tag/bryan-pagliano/#.dpuf
Note 43
Oct 2012... interesting
October 2012... was a VERY busy month for Hillary’s server to be “down.”
Wonder if her other server was having better luck?
MacDougall has worked with clients who have been wrongfully accused of having links to Al-Qaeda and committing murder in Eastern Europe. He works with private investigators to prove the allegations are false and then secures a retraction in publications.
It’s a specialty that can pay upward of $1 million a case, and a profile in “The American Lawyer” on his work in the area earned him the nickname “The Cleaner.”
“Our job is to kill the false story. Not the bad story, which is what a PR guy does,” MacDougall told the publication.
http://m.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2013/12/02/Marketing-and-Sponsorship/MacDougall.aspx?
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, the US law firm, has told a UK court that two of its top partners behaved entirely properly and with their client’s best interests when they refused to testify in a London criminal trial.
Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith must determine whether an Akin Gump partner, Mark MacDougall, committed serious misconduct during the high-profile trial of Victor Dahdaleh, a British-Canadian “power broker”.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/3a0bb038-aace-11e3-be01-00144feab7de.html#axzz3keALhiQL
Mark MacDougall is a trial lawyer with extensive civil and criminal trial experience in federal and state courts across the United States. He formerly served as a federal prosecutor with the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). For more than a decade, Mr. MacDougall has devoted considerable time to the pro bono trial representation of criminal defendants facing the death penalty in South Carolina. His work in this area has received national recognition, including the Foot Soldier Award from the NAACP and the Exemplar Award from the National Legal Aid and Defender Association.
Interesting timing of stint at the DOJ...
https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/mark-j-macdougall.html
Partner
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP
September 1993 – Present (22 years 1 month)
Trial Attorney
Criminal Division - U.S. Department of Justice
1990 – 1993 (3 years)
Associate
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP
1986 – 1990 (4 years)Wahsington, D.C.
https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/mark-j-macdougall.html
During the early 1990s, Mr. MacDougall served as a federal prosecutor with the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where he was the lead attorney in a series of highly successful financial fraud prosecutions.
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-08-09/news/mn-33236_1_bank-examiner
For example, on Oct. 16, 1992, the U.S. attorney in Little Rock, Ark., said in a letter to the FBI that he did not believe he could win a criminal prosecution against McDougal and his wife, Susan.
“While participation of some or all of these witnesses certainly suggests poor judgment, possible conflicts of interest or ethical infractions, proving specific intent or knowing criminal conduct would be a prosecutorial burden that could not be carried beyond a reasonable doubt,” wrote Charles A. Bank, a Bush appointee. He noted that McDougal had been tried and acquitted earlier on other bank charges.
Four months later, an attorney in the Justice Department’s criminal fraud section came to the same conclusion. “Mr. and Mrs. McDougal’s conduct may have constituted a breach of duty, abuse of position and self-dealing,” wrote attorney Mark J. MacDougall in a memo to the chief of the fraud division. “However, [the] factual allegations [are not] sufficient to establish the elements of any of the criminal statutes used in the prosecution of bank fraud.”
http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/WW/white11.html
Criminal Referral C0004 gets lost at the Justice Department.
Criminal referral C0004 remained in the U.S. Attorney’s Office until January 27, 1993, when Mr. Banks requested, in a letter to Donna Henneman, Ethics Program Manager at the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, that Main Justice assume responsibility for any further action.(290) Mr. Banks believed that his office had a conflict of interest because of its unsuccessful criminal prosecution of Mr. McDougal in 1990.(291) Mr. Banks concluded that “[a] limited preliminary investigation of allegations pertinent to Mr. and Mrs. McDougal and Ms. Anspaugh should be considered,” and that interviews of these individuals should determine whether there is merit to further investigation.(292)
On February 9, 1993, Anthony Moscato, Director of the Executive Office of United States Attorneys, forwarded Mr. Banks’ request to Stuart Gerson, then Acting Attorney General, through Douglas Frazier, Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General.(293) Mr. Frazier prepared a recusal package and sent it to the Criminal Division for its recommendation.(294)
On February 22, 1993, Gerald McDowell, Chief of the Frauds Section at Main Justice, directed a young trial attorney, Mark MacDougall, to analyze the criminal referral.(295) Just one day later, on February 23, 1993, without even reviewing the 300 exhibits, Mr. MacDougal prepared a memorandum in which he concluded that Crminal Referral C0004 did not appear to warrant any criminal investigation.(296)
If Mills was on the government payroll, there is no attorney-client privilege.
Thanks for the ping. Wow.
Absolutely! Make him take full fifth amendment every time.
Talk to the building engineer, run the temp up about 10 degrees so we all see him sweating.
What does he have to hide if he’s innocent?
Give him amnesty and compel him to testify; if he refuses, jail him for contempt and throw away the key and say, “ NEXT!”
Maybe they should ask his wife (or boyfriend) a few questions.
He’s probably less fearful of state prosecution than of Clinton execution.
Call him before the committee anyway. Ask every question they intend to ask. Make him invoke the 5th each time.
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