Posted on 08/16/2018 9:43:08 AM PDT by T Ruth
A review of publicly available information causes a reasonable person to wonder whether Bruce Ohr broke the law by promoting his wife’s anti-Trump research to the FBI when he was working at the Justice Department.
The law prohibits public officials from involvement in matters in which their spouse has a financial interest. The question is, Did Ohr “personally and substantially” participate in a particular matter in which his spouse had a “financial interest” while he was employed by the Justice Department as the assistant attorney general? ***
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***Former FBI agent Peter Strzok has confirmed Ohr fed the FBI documents pertinent to the investigation into Trump’s Russia ties, and The Hill reported the FBI used Ohr to continue collecting information from Steele, even after it terminated him as a source for leaking word of the investigation to the media.
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Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson disclosed in a sworn declaration that Fusion GPS paid Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, a Russia expert, to help research and analyze potential opposition research on Trump.
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As pointed out by The Daily Caller, Ohr failed to disclose that his wife was being paid by Fusion GPS in his mandatory public financial disclosure form. The purpose of the form is to “identify potential or actual conflicts of interest.” Thus, *** [Ohr] deprived DOJ of the opportunity to identify this potential conflict of interest by failing to disclose the source of her “consulting” income. ***
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Violation of the law prohibiting public officials from involving themselves in matters in which their spouse has a financial interest (18 U.S.C. §208) is a crime punishable for up to five years in prison, if the conduct is deemed willful. ***
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Whatever happened to the speculation that Ohr got his wife and her Fusion GPS cronies into the NSA database query system? Haven’t heard a thing about that one.
And charges will be filed around the 12th of never.
Interesting, Rush is right now hypothesizing that the Steele dossier may have actually been created by Nellie Ohr....
Has nellie ohr kept her ham license up to date?
Ohr’s wife fed trash to Steele, who then fed the trash back to Ohr, who them present the trash as fact to FISA judges..........
Did Nellie Ohr help write the fake dossier along with Steele?
I want to know about the unmasking done by the Obama administration. The hundreds of NSA unmasking requests by all kinds of people. That just seems to be forgotten.
She only recently received it, which is very strange because a wife ALMOST ALWAYS has a husband elmer her into it.
10 to 1 she also used Echolink, not ham radio, because she though no one was watching it.
Ohr belongs in prison. If we had a real AG he would be!
Charges will be filed when startled passengers on an airliner watch pigs keeping pace with them in the clouds.
Remember all the 2017 Washington DC violent, fire setters who broke windows,burned a limo and assaulted people coming to the Inauguration? All of them had charges dismissed or were given probations. That will scare the criminals alright.
Bill C. sexually assaulted women and is now a laughing folk icon who smiles a lot as he accepts huge speaking fees. No charges stuck.
Chelsea used the Haitian children’s charity money in the Clinton Foundation as Chelsea’s Piggybank. Not even a hint of a charge against her. She’s running for office someday.
None of this matters. The Two people that can do anything, Trump & Sessions, are doing Nothing.
yes
It’s not like she was a long-term employee of Fusion.
She was only hired in 2016.
Clearly a pay-off to Bruce for his involvement in the frame-up of Trump, laundered through his wife.
bttt
From the highest tree... two nooses.
But the most important realization about the law that I can impart is: The law does not enforce itself.
In a civil suit against another party, for amounts greater than what is covered within small claims limits, typically $5K to $7.5K, if you are plaintiff, the suing party, you will need to come up with $20K-$60K to get your lawsuit reasonably started.
After that, you can alternatively sit with a pile of $100 bills and just start setting them on fire.
Enormous numbers of these level suits are essentially forced into arbitration after the parties are simply financially exhausted.
Criminal cases are different. There, the state is the plaintiff and is assumed to be infinitely funded.
How come that dude looks like a chinaman?
There are all kinds of digital modes. Even radios that transmit outside of the authorized band.
Yeah, but there’s no security. I also doubt that a Tech licensee like Ohr with no real log activity or lookups (QRZ.com) is going to start contacting others with RTTY or whatever. Any one could be listening in. If she was going to do illegal broadcasting, she could just do it.
I have a strong feeling it’s Echolink she was using, because of the P2P user to user chat and the fact that it’s a relatively unknown and probably unmonitored service.
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