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Durham reportedly seeking indictment against Clinton campaign lawyer who gave FBI Russia dirt
https://justthenews.com ^ | September 15, 2021 - 11:24pm | By Colton Salaz

Posted on 09/16/2021 5:21:12 AM PDT by Red Badger

Durham has until the weekend to charge Michael Sussmann because of a five-year statute of limitations.

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Special counsel John Durham reportedly is seeking a grand jury indictment against Michael Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer at a Democratic-allied law firm that represented Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.

According to the New York Times, the charge is said to be related to an alleged false statement to the FBI about a client's identity when Sussmann pushed now-debunked claims about secret communications between Russia’s Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election.

Durham “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 FBI,” the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing “people familiar with the matter.”

Prior testimony and documents show Sussmann, who worked at Perkins Coie, delivered allegations about the Alfa server to then-FBI General Counsel James Baker in fall 2016. Baker has told invetsigators Sussman told him his approach was not on behalf of any client. But Sussmann told Congress he made the approach on behalf of a computer security client.

The newspaper said Durham's team has obtained records showing Sussmann billed work on the Alfa Bank matter to the Clinton campaign, the newspaper said.

Sussmann’s lawyers, Sean M. Berkowitz and Michael S. Bosworth, acknowledged Wednesday that they expected him to be indicted, but denied wrongdoing.

“Mr. Sussmann has committed no crime,” they told the Times. “Any prosecution here would be baseless, unprecedented and an unwarranted deviation from the apolitical and principled way in which the Department of Justice is supposed to do its work. We are confident that if Mr. Sussmann is charged, he will prevail at trial and vindicate his good name.

Durham has until the weekend to charge Sussmann because of a five-year statute of limitations, the newspaper said.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: again; christophersteele; johndurham; michaelsussmann; perkinscoie; russia
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1 posted on 09/16/2021 5:21:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
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“Hey, there’s this guy who works in the mail room. I think we can pin everything on him ...”


2 posted on 09/16/2021 5:21:59 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. A weaker, Jr partner, good at losing wars.)
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Let that be a lesson to anyone working in the mailroom.

Work for scuzzy aristocrats, you get to be the fall guy.


3 posted on 09/16/2021 5:25:16 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: Red Badger
Unless he's trying to flip this guy and succeeds in doing so this means less than nothing. I'm still willing to wager that Durham has found a horse's head in his bed in the last few months.
4 posted on 09/16/2021 5:25:20 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: Red Badger

Bravo Foxtrot Delta.


5 posted on 09/16/2021 5:26:09 AM PDT by Howie66 (TRUMP WON!)
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To: Red Badger

SO IT *DID* COME FROM THE HILLIARY CAMP???

What a surprise


6 posted on 09/16/2021 5:26:10 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Hey, there’s this guy who works in the mail room. I think we can pin everything on him:

Agree.
Durham was looking for the lowest hanging fruit he could find. This is just stupid. Who cares anymore what this jerk does. He had no intention of carrying out a real investigation.


7 posted on 09/16/2021 5:27:11 AM PDT by FR_addict
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To: Red Badger
"Durham has until the weekend to charge Sussmann because of a five-year statute of limitations, the newspaper said."

So there you go... 5 years have passed- they slow-waked it past the sculpture of limitations.

8 posted on 09/16/2021 5:27:37 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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Durham has until the weekend to charge Sussmann because of a five-year statute of limitations, the newspaper said.

I imagine charges will be filed first thing Monday morning ...

9 posted on 09/16/2021 5:28:11 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. A weaker, Jr partner, good at losing wars.)
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To: Red Badger

That picture of Bull Durham makes you think he’s real tough. Yeah right.


10 posted on 09/16/2021 5:32:06 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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Post 4-
Agreed.... Wait and see how this game plays out.


11 posted on 09/16/2021 5:33:32 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: Red Badger


12 posted on 09/16/2021 5:34:21 AM PDT by Iron Munro ( In Biden’s America science is just leftist propaganda spread by government,media and useful idiots )
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Comey, Obama, Clapper, Brennen, Traitors all.

The system of 'checks and balances' has been shot to hell in this country. Who can cheat the best will be our dear leaders. Sad, sad, sad......

13 posted on 09/16/2021 6:00:42 AM PDT by eeriegeno
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To: Mr. K
So there you go... 5 years have passed- they slow-waked it past the sculpture of limitations.

That was the whole purpose of Sessions, Barr and Durham....run out the clock.

The same will happen with election fraud and every other crime committed by the communists because they are in full control and we are urinating into the wind.

Those who still play the "hopeful" card have become complete jokes.

14 posted on 09/16/2021 6:03:29 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
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To: Red Badger

Perkins Coie attorney.


15 posted on 09/16/2021 6:46:11 AM PDT by Rumierules
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To: ClearCase_guy

## “Hey, there’s this guy who works in the mail room. I think we can pin everything on him ...”

Exactly.


16 posted on 09/16/2021 8:08:50 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Red Badger

“Durham reportedly seeking indictment against Clinton campaign lawyer who gave FBI Russia dirt”

That ought to put a dent in their nefarious activities and while their at it; spend a few more million to nab the janitor as I’m sure he was in on the high level treason.


17 posted on 09/16/2021 8:44:58 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: Red Badger

Well , whoop-de-freakin’- do !

Can we please stop posting Durham stories?


18 posted on 09/16/2021 9:54:12 AM PDT by Walrus (I do not consent)
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To: Red Badger

Here’s an article on Sussman’s particular role:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/perkins-coie-lawyer-michael-sussmanns-coordinated-leaks-to-media-and-fbis-james-baker-likely-came-from-steele-fusion-gps_2679664.html

Here’s an example from 2018 of main players:
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/446736-hillary-clintons-russia-collusion-iou-the-answers-she-owes-america


19 posted on 09/16/2021 12:00:00 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: ClearCase_guy; Mr. K

This is not a ‘mail room guy’. He’s a substantial part of multiple DNC/Clinton/GPS/FBI operations.

The real issue is what Mr. K notes below:

“So there you go... 5 years have passed- they slow-waked it past the sculpture of limitations.”

Even if they flip him, it is so late that they won’t be able to prosecute anyone else - even if they actually make the deadline on this guy.


20 posted on 09/16/2021 12:03:32 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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