Posted on 09/07/2018 9:16:14 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Friday raised the prospect that the London-based professor who told former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos that Russia had "dirt" on Hillary Clinton may be dead.
DNC lawyers wrote in court filings Friday that Joseph Mifsud, who spoke to Papadopoulos during the 2016 presidential election, "is missing and may be deceased," Bloomberg News reported. The lawyers did not elaborate.
The DNC stood by its claim in a statement to The Hill on Friday. The committee indicated that an investigator had been used to find Mifsud, who had disappeared for months, and was told the Maltese professor may be dead.
“The DNC's counsel has attempted to serve Mifsud for months and has been unable to locate or contact him. In addition, public reports have said he has disappeared and hasn't been seen for months," DNC spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said.
Mifsud was reportedly teaching at a private university in Rome before he vanished late last year, shortly after his name emerged as a key figure in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The professor had reportedly not been in contact with prosecutors in Italy seeking to question him over allegations of financial wrongdoing and his fiancé told Business Insider earlier this year that she could not reach him.
The DNC's revelation came in court filings Friday in their lawsuit against Russia, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks for interfering in the 2016 presidential election. According to Bloomberg, the DNC said it believed all of the defendants in the case had been served, with the exception of Mifsud.
A hearing in that lawsuit is scheduled for next week in federal court in New York.
Papadopoulos was sentenced in a separate legal case Friday to two weeks in prison for lying to FBI investigators about his contacts with Mifsud during the campaign, the first sentence for a former campaign aide as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference.
Mifsud was reportedly known to have high-level contacts in the Russian government, including with Sergei Lavrov, Russia's current foreign minister. During the campaign Papadopoulos told the president and now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions that Russia was interested in setting up a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Sessions testified last year that he rejected Papadopoulos's suggestion of a meeting, though the former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser alleged in a CNN interview Friday that Sessions was "enthusiastic" about such a meeting.
Sessions "was actually enthusiastic about a meeting between the candidate and President Putin," Papadopoulos told CNN, adding that Trump "gave me a sort of a nod" but "wasn't committed either way" to the idea.
Trump officials have long downplayed Papadopoulos's role within the campaign in public statements, while President Trump has long denied any collusion with Russia during the election.
‘News’ to feed the leftist crazies while the real story is Mueller’s big get on Russian collusion nets a 14 day mini-sentence and a judge stating there is no collusion evidence.
Spell that with a C
Just because this person shot himself in the back five times with a gun of a different caliber than the rounds in his back and no fingerprints on the gun and carrying thousands in cash and a Rolex, everyone jumps to conspiracy conclusions. Cause of death shot during robbery on his record. So there.
The FBI discontinued the private entity’s access to raw FISA data in April 2016, the same month in which the Clinton campaign and the DNC used law firm Perkins Coie to retain Fusion GPS to produce the so-called Trump dossier.
The dossier would eventually lead to the FBI obtaining the FISA warrant on Carter Page in October 2016.
******* As soon as these shits were told to stay off the NSA database they started going for FISA warrants (using phony Trump dossier) to continue their spying on the Trump campaign.
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*******In April of 2016, NSA head Mike Rogers noticed the unusually high # of Sec. 702 queries to unmask the names of US citizens being made by the FBI. He investigated & discovered, much to his horror, it was coming from a FBI subcontractor & unmasked names = Trump campaign team.
https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/951660483798601728
Any hope at all that he is safely away in a witness protection program?
Probably on the run from Italy, where he lived. He’s wanted there for financial fraud connected to a university program.
Might be just relaxing on the beach in his native Malta.
[...Mueller’s big get on Russian collusion nets a 14 day mini-sentence and a judge stating there is no collusion evidence.”
Do you have a link for that story? I’d love to read it.
It’s all over Freerepublic since yesterday. Look for any of the Papadopoulos posts.
Millions and Millions of dollars wasted. “Sir, I hereby sentence you to two week in the local jail!!” Matt Dillon could have done that with the town drunk.
Besides the mountain of corpses that Hillary and Billalready have to account for. He has more company, though.
The DOJ has him in a witness protection program.
Our beloved accidental president, Donald Trump, has stumbled into the biggest hotbed of political corruption since the fall of Rome. Is it any wonder why these dogs are firing everything at him and us (social media bannings). These midterms are urgently important.
Mifsud was last seen in Rome on Oct. 31, 2017 at the Link Campus University at an interviewed with an Italian newspaper.
Mifsud taught there, part time.
He is deeply embedded with the Saudi’s and has traveled on diplomatic passport for them. He’s alive but dug in deep.
Gee...
It’s just ... just... such COINCIDENCE - yeah, that’s the word, coincidence - that this exact same “illness” seems to happen to anyone who may endanger the Clintons or the muslim communist.
Amazing, isn’t it???
People that get involved with the Clintons are crazy stupid.
Yes indeed.
Where is the long missing Stefan Halper ?
If the Russians did kill him if he was going to be a nuisance, good.
one less a@@hole to worry about.
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