Posted on 09/06/2015 6:42:01 AM PDT by maggief
Bryan Pagliano, the State Department IT guru who has said he will plead the fifth rather than testify about his work on Hillary Clinton’s home-brew email server, is represented by a partner at a prestigious Washington D.C. law firm with close political and financial ties to the former secretary of state.
The arrangement between Pagliano and Mark MacDougall of Akin Gump raises questions over whether the former Clinton aide merely sought to hire the best lawyer he could find for himself, or whether the Democratic presidential hopeful intervened in any way.
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Clinton’s campaign treasurer is Jose Villarreal, a senior consultant at Akin Gump. One of the firm’s highest profile attorneys is Vernon Jordan, Jr., a longtime Clinton insider who was on Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential transition committee. The former first couple, along with President Obama and Michelle Obama, recently attended Jordan’s 80th birthday, which was held at Martha’s Vineyard.
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Pagliano’s attorney, Mark MacDougall:
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)
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https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/vernon-e-jordan.html
Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
There is no cartel in Washington DC! Sarc
Why would the witch pick any attorney not already friendly to her and her rapist husband? Why is this a surprise at all?
And her staff too?
Next question-—who is paying Pagliano’s legal bills?
Knowing how the avaricious Clinton crony network operates......it had better not be we, the taxpayers.
Pagano can’t afford that high powered attorney. Who is paying for him? I have my suspicions, of course.
It’s her IT guy, Pagliano.
Hard to tell which team he’s playing for at the moment. It doesn’t sound like H was happy with him pleading the fifth.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3333352/posts
Watch it be owned by some foreign agent.
Drip Drip Drip Drip Drip.
There is no end to the conflicts of interest in the Clinton Gang. Why hasn’t her passport been confiscated? I would consider her a flight risk about now
Does this mean this Clinton contributing law firm will throw the kid overboard to save the hag, or what?
And they won’t even yell man overboard
Sorry kid. You might as well leave the door open to your apartment so when Hillary’s goon squad comes to end your life the won’t have to break in.
#Arkancide
Why haven’t the clintoons been arrested for espionage yet?
This is the question millions of Americans, thousands of law enforcement officers and most every world leader is pondering right now. Why hasn’t Hillary been arrested for espionage?
Sadly, I suspect she’s not the only govt official, elected or appointed, who’s doing it.
Well fancy that. Thanks for posting this informative article.
Vernon Jordan, there is a name we haven’t heard from for a long time.
The guy who tried to silence Monica by getting her a high paying, do nothing job.
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