Posted on 09/15/2021 6:31:13 PM PDT by Theoria
The lawyer, Michael Sussmann, is accused of lying to the F.B.I. in a 2016 meeting about Trump and Russia. He denies wrongdoing.
John H. Durham, the special counsel appointed by the Trump administration to scrutinize the Russia investigation, has told the Justice Department that he will ask a grand jury to indict a prominent cybersecurity lawyer on a charge of making a false statement to the F.B.I., people familiar with the matter said.
Any indictment of the lawyer — Michael Sussmann, a former federal prosecutor and now a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm, and who represented the Democratic National Committee on issues related to Russia’s 2016 hacking of its servers — is likely to attract significant political attention.
Donald J. Trump and his supporters have long accused Democrats and Perkins Coie — whose political law group, a division separate from Mr. Sussmann’s, represented the party and the Hillary Clinton campaign — of seeking to stoke unfair suspicions about Mr. Trump’s purported ties to Russia.
The case against Mr. Sussmann centers on the question of who his client was when he conveyed certain suspicions about Mr. Trump and Russia to the F.B.I. in September 2016. Among other things, investigators have examined whether Mr. Sussmann was secretly working for the Clinton campaign — which he denies.
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what about Comey and crowd??????
Any idea what he was like as a kid? Teenager? Young adult?
Character wise, that is.
Durham? Name rings a bell.
So in the end a shylock did it.
Wow. What a shock.
So in the end a shylock did it.
Wow. What a shock.
“Even if the guy is guilty as hell, which I’m sure he is, he’ll get the same treatment as Clinesmith. Won’t even be disbarred. And he’ll be a hero in DC for taking one for the team.”
Which is why Federal protections must be eliminated from the DC bureaucracy. Democrat hacks need to be canned after every election and their budgets eliminated.
When we have a polity in DC that votes 90-95% democrat, we’ll continue to be ruled by left-wing autocrats.
Washington DC is a “wretched hive of scum and villainy.” We should’ve moved DC to somewhere in the Midwest, many years ago.
“The time has come.”
Federal protections must be eliminated from the DC bureaucracy........Those protections are in the DNA of every Democrat. It lies in wait. It manifests itself when one of their own gets in trouble and the instinctively know that they must protect each other. No need to be told anything.
It really doesn’t matter what the person did or how much damage/injury their action caused. All that matters is loyalty to the Party and protecting their own.
P
Has there ever been a conviction of a D in DC?
I think he has two days left to indict him as the statute of limitations expires.
BFD!
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OMG. This entire government is CORRUPT BEYOND repair.
Clinesmith was and her is what the judge had to say at sentencing:
While the government argued for prison time, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said that the 38-year-old attorney had already suffered greatly since he was charged and pleaded guilty.
Boasberg said the offense represented the “only stain on the defendant’s character that I have been able to discern,” adding that the case had thrust Clinesmith into “the eye of media hurricane.”
Page, who also testified Friday, said he had suffered greatly, as well, from unwarranted law enforcement and media scrutiny, though he told Boasberg that he had “no desire to see (Clinesmith) suffer.”
So, you’re a Democrat. You commit Perjury. Admit to it. 1year of Probation and you get to keep being a lawyer.
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