Mueller Subpoenas Trump Organization, Demanding Documents About Russia

NY Times ^ | 03/15/2018 | Michael Schmidt and Maggie Haberman

[GIdget2004]

The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has subpoenaed the Trump Organization to turn over documents, including some related to Russia, according to two people briefed on the matter. The order is the first known time that the special counsel demanded documents directly related to President Trump’s businesses, bringing the investigation closer to the president.

The breadth of the subpoena was not clear, nor was it clear why Mr. Mueller issued it instead of simply asking for the documents from the company, an umbrella organization that oversees Mr. Trump’s business ventures. In the subpoena, delivered in recent weeks, Mr. Mueller ordered the Trump Organization to hand over all documents related to Russia and other topics he is investigating, the people said.

The subpoena is the latest indication that the investigation, which Mr. Trump’s lawyers once regularly assured him would be completed by now, will drag on for at least several more months. Word of the subpoena comes as Mr. Mueller appears to be broadening his investigation to examine the role foreign money may have played in funding Mr. Trump’s political activities. In recent weeks, Mr. Mueller’s investigators have questioned witnesses, including an adviser to the United Arab Emirates, about the flow of Emirati money into the United States.

Neither White House officials nor Alan S. Futerfas, a lawyer representing the Trump Organization, immediately responded to requests for comment. The Trump Organization has typically complied with requests from congressional investigators for documents for their own inquiries into Russian election interference, and there was no indication the company planned to fight Mr. Mueller about it.

[1Old Pro]

OOC, Out of Control.

[KC_Conspirator]

Torquemada is still on his witch hunt.

[NImerc]

To: The Office of the Special Councel,

NUTS!

The Trump Organization

[noiseman]

”Mueller always escalates after bad news for him. I guess he doesn’t have anybody else to indict right now.”

You’re exactly right. I’ve noticed Mueller doing this without fail every time doubts are cast upon his “investigation.” He just does it to distract. He’s also like a guy trying to rob a bank with nothing more than his finger under his shirt. Every time someone starts to doubt that he really has a gun he points his finger-gun at them and shouts at them to back off. It works for a while because just on the off chance that he actually is armed, no one wants to be the “hero” that ends up taking a bullet.

It’s all a bluff, of course. And in this case, the investigation itself is the weapon. The goal is just to stretch the investigation out infinitely, with no resolution, to maintain a phony cloud of suspicion over Trump.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

...and I can’t think of one single solitary thing he’s done other than deport some illegals, if he’s even involved in that. Like that Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, blatant violation of the law warning illegals. This was almost a month ago. So why isn’t she arrested? He won’t do it. The guy is a waste, he’s in a coma and Trump should fire him ASAP.

[redgolum]

Grandstanding.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

It pisses me off to no end that fckin b*tch is still waltzing around scot free. Her entire time as SoS was nothing more than one huge shakedown racket on OUR dime. We PAID her to make herself rich.

[blackdog]

Time to hire the State Department shredding staff Hillary, Powers, and Rice use when such requests are made.

[blackdog]

Russian yoga and wedding plans.

[Electric Graffiti]

“How much more abuse from these tyrants are patriots going to tolerate, I surely don’t know.”

It’s coming to a head. The dems were one election away from never having to worrying about elections again. The rabid left are in firm control of ‘our’ corrupt stasi state, ‘our’ corrupt courts, the fakestream media and they’ve done a great job of infiltrating the repubikan party—Which is why the repubikan party is still supporting mueller. They want Trump gone as much or more than the dems.

[Bonemaker]

Now I’m hearing he cited the wrong law to justify his recusal.

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[romanesq]

You’ll regret all the foolish lashing out against the Hon. Jeff Sessions.
Really soon as March Madness begins.

So tired of the density in these parts. (eye roll)

[Liz]

Amen.

[Jane Long]

Our sentiments, EXACTLY!!

Why is this weeotch still a free bird?

[jjotto]

Blogger babble. His recusal was a promise made to fellow Senators during his confirmation hearing, the implication being that it was a condition of his approval as AG. There doesn’t need to be a ‘law’.

[Ambrosia]

Judge Jeanine interviewed Utah Representative, who talked to Sessions about Clinton e mails, Eric Holder (Fast and Furious), IRS, and among others, and Sessions will not prosecute. Here is link to that interview...his comment is at about 3.25 forward”. Sessions needs to be fired, period!

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[nopardons]

Great post and spot on, re every point!

[odawg]

Alan Dershowitz stated that when Meuller shows up with his supoenas, the White House should require him to show them the statute that authorizes his authority to do so.

He can’t for it does not exist.

[Ancesthntr]

“Mueller Subpoenas Trump Organization, Demanding Documents About Russia”

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Don Trump, Jr. should send Mueller copies of War and Peace and the Gulag Archipelago. Maybe he can even dig up a copy of the Reagan-era “Soviet Military Power” booklets. That ought to keep them busy for a while.