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First Charges Filed in Mueller Investigation

palmab03 said:
y'all are arguing about whether or not Trump will get secret service protection in jail, when the better debate is whether Mt. Rushmore will get round the clock secret service protection when it's remodeled into Mt. Trumpmore.
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That's hilarious!:rolleyes:
 
FBI investigates Russian-linked Cyprus bank accused of money laundering

Request for financial information may be connected to inquiries into possible conspiracy between Trump and Kremlin


The FBI has asked officials in Cyprus for financial information about a defunct bank that was used by wealthy Russians with political connections and has been accused by the US government of money laundering, two sources have told the Guardian.

The request for information about FBME Bank comes as Cyprus has emerged as a key area of interest for Robert Mueller, the US special counsel who is investigating a possible conspiracy between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Kremlin.

People familiar with the FBI request told the Guardian that federal investigators and the US Treasury approached the Central Bank of Cyprus in November seeking detailed information about FBME, which was shut down this year.

One person familiar with the FBI request said it appeared to be connected to Mueller’s ongoing examination of Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager who was indicted in October, and money that flowed between former Soviet states and the US through Cypriot banks.

The Central Bank of Cyprus, which in 2014 placed FBME under administration in a direct response to US action and obtained full access to the bank’s data, declined to comment. The US special counsel’s office also declined to comment.

FBME has vigorously denied accusations that it has been a conduit for money laundering and other criminal activity.

The owners, Lebanese brothers Ayoub-Farid Saab and Fadi Michel Saab, issued a statement following a series of recent critical articles about the bank and denied all wrongdoing.

Bloomberg reported last week that FBME was the subject of two US investigations: one into the bank’s credit card unit, and another into alleged laundering of money from Russia. Bloomberg said the Russia-related investigation, which is being led by the US attorney’s office in New York, was connected to a flow of illegal Russian funds into the New York real estate market.

FBME, previously known as the Federal Bank of the Middle East, was based in Tanzania but about 90% of its banking was conducted in Cyprus. A report by the US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in 2014 said the bank was an institution of “primary money laundering concern”.

The report found that the bank was evading efforts by the Central Bank of Cyprus to supervise its activities, and that FBME was facilitating money laundering, terrorist financing, transnational organised crime, fraud, sanctions evasion, weapons trading and political corruption.

A 2014 internal report by the Central Bank of Cyprus about FBME that was obtained by the Guardian found that FBME had banking relationships with several Russians who were considered to be politically sensitive clients and that about half of the bank’s clients were Russian nationals, including Vladimir Smirnov, who is close to Putin, and Aleksandr Shishkin, a member of Putin’s political party.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news...inked-cyprus-bank-accused-of-money-laundering
 
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Wasn't there a GOP data firm that left a huge cache of voter data unencrypted for like 2 weeks?
 
PhDeac said:
Wasn't there a GOP data firm that left a huge cache of voter data unencrypted for like 2 weeks?
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Yea they mention it in the article. No biggie though...just 61% of the US populations personal info.

"Deep Root accidentally leaked the sensitive personal details of roughly 198 million citizens in June, as its database was left exposed on the open web for nearly two weeks. The firm had stored details of about 61% of the US population on an Amazon cloud server without password protection."
 
Bout time for Evan McMullin to make a move. Seems like he’s been spitting into the wind for 18 months. Is he going to run against Hatch? Run for Chaffetz’ old district?
 
A good reminder on Trump's long support for Flynn before the inevitable onslaught of attacks by Fox News, Jim Jordan and the rest of Trump's enablers.

Trump finally turns on the formerly ‘wonderful man’ Michael Flynn
By Paul Waldman
December 28 at 8:46 AM

"Trump worked very hard to keep Flynn on his side, and ultimately failed. Up until now, Trump has been absolutely intent on protecting Flynn, which suggested that preventing Flynn from testifying was of the utmost importance for him. Trump is not known for going out of his way to help other people, to say the least, particularly former aides he has cast off. Yet according to James B. Comey, Trump asked the then-FBI director to back off investigating Flynn; according to this report, Trump asked Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats to pressure Comey to lay off Flynn; Trump made a very public show of supporting Flynn and saying nice things about him, and scolded aides when they failed to do the same; and even sent Flynn personal messages of support, according to friends of Flynn’s. And that’s only what has been publicly reported."

Note: all of those events are hyperlinked to original story/source of information

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...-card-f:homepage/story&utm_term=.c174201f9929
 
Not just Rosenstein. WTF is going on here?
 
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