Bijan Rafiekian - AKA Bijan Kian.
Posted on 08/08/2019 7:59:03 AM PDT by bitt
When the final report of then-special counsel Robert Mueller stated that it couldn’t establish that anyone from the Trump campaign had conspired with Russia, many Americans may have failed to realize how revealing a statement that was.
The recent conviction of a former partner in the now-defunct consultancy firm of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, shows how easy it would have been for Mueller to bring charges even if he could piece together only a circumstantial case.
Yet he didn’t.
Conspiracy
Despite its ominous sound, the federal charge of conspiracy has a low bar to clear. If two people agree to commit any federal crime and if they undertake any, however trivial, “overt act” to further the plan, they can be charged and sent to prison for up to five years, even if they never actually committed the contemplated crime.
“It is a low bar,” said David Duncan, criminal defense lawyer from the Boston law firm Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein. The “overt act” in particular can be something “minor or innocuous-looking,” he said.
If two people discussed a plan to rob a bank, for instance, and one of them went to buy duct tape that, in the government’s eyes, was to be used to tie people’s hands during the robbery, that could be an “overt act.” At the purchase of the duct tape, a charge of conspiracy to rob a bank could be forthcoming.
The case of Flynn’s former partner, Bijan Rafiekian, seems a prime example.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
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I hope the IG goes after the abuse of power and false prosecution carried out by the Mueller team.
There was never collusion, period. I say this with full knowledge that there are those on here that worship the ground that Jeff Session walks on, but facts are facts. If we had had an Attorney General at that point in time, that witch hunt would have never happened.
Sessions was a mole for the DNC.
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn apparently lied to several people, including our Vice President. I have no sympathy for a liar, except in a tactical situation to save lives. He made a choice and is paying the price. Everyone should take notice.
I believe he “lied” about dates! NOT FACTS!
NONE of this should have happened which includes Sessions being appointed in the first place. Hindsight being what it is,I personally would have gone after Clinton and Obama but President Trump did the right thing which unfortunately may just have helped destroy the country because not doing anything set Clinton and Obama to green light the coup. Draining the Swamp for REAL (and not stocking it) from day one could have really prevented so much.
Conspiracy
Despite its ominous sound, the federal charge of conspiracy has a low bar to clear. If two people agree to commit any federal crime and if they undertake any, however trivial, “overt act” to further the plan, they can be charged and sent to prison for up to five years, even if they never actually committed the contemplated crime.
In other words, when Mueller and his buddies arranged for George Papadapoulos to receive $10,000 through strange circumstances and then Staked out the Airport, detained and searched him, finding NOTHING,
EVERY PERSON INVOLVED WAS ENGAGED IN A CONSPIRACY TO LAUNDER MONEY
‘Conspiracy to defraud the US government’ has a very low standard. Causing a bureaucrat to spend extra time by failing to volunteer information is an example of such a crime.
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