I saw that interview. It was the first time I heard about that $10K payment. I’m glad he saved the drop and will fetch the bills. To be credible, he should probably have someone reliable from the DOJ (if one exists) accompany him to Greece to fetch it. To see if they are, indeed, marked bills.
George said he left the money with his lawyer and was searched for cash in the US by the TSA at the airport when he landed. He speculated that they knew and were searching for the money but didn’t find it because he left it with his lawyers in Israel. How the heck the $$ ended up in Greece, I don’t know. I don’t think he said why he thought he received the $$, other than he said he was suspicious about it.
I believe him. His story is credible. They made him a patsy, or at least tried to. Sounds like his antennae may have tingled on time so he didn’t take the money home with him.
In his book, George writes that Tawil gave him the money in exchange for unspecified services. Tawil didn't offer or require a contract stating what the services would be. I don't think Tawil even asked George to sign a receipt for it. Tawil must have thought George was naive enough to just carry the money back to the U.S. without considering how he would explain that money to customs enforcement. The frame job on George would have been much more effective had George been more greedy and less suspicious.
He left Israel with the $10,000.00 and flew to GREECE where he gave it to his Lawyer...in GREECE!
I don’t find him credible at all. He has changed his story repeatedly. If he goes to Greece I bet he winds up in jail.
No charges were proffered. It was described as a "Probable Cause" arrest. Dan Bongino has spoken at length about this.
In his career as a federal agent with the Secret Service, probable cause arrests are so rare as to be non-existent. Cops on the the street do them all the time, but federal agents? Never. Their route is to get a warrant on potential crimes that have been researched, and then go out and make an arrest.
This all happened right after the Strzok-Page texts became public and Mueller began panicking, looking for ways to get control over people to shut people up. This was one of those.
They thought they would catch him with the $10K coming through customs and could put the screws to him.
Unbeknownst to them, he smelled a rat, and left the money in Greece with a lawyer.
Mueller nailed Papadopoulos on a charge he lied to them in an interview in February 2017, where he said he had begun working for the Trump campaign a week or two later than he actually had.
Here is the story about the arrest and the money (By Chuck Ross, who does phenomenal work): Papadopoulos Told Feds He Received $10,000 From Foreign National He Believed Was A Spy
On a related note, if you do a Google search with "papadopoulos airport arrest" all you get returned are articles about Papadopoulos going to jail for lying. Interesting, eh?
Yep. Google does shape and modify its returns in very specific and minute ways, but they want you to think it is just a general algorithm. Scum, all.