First Charges Filed in Mueller Investigation

[JManslow]

Stone is asking for donations to his legal fund. He’s claiming he’s run up a $500k tab already.

 

[Newenglanddeac]

Mueller is officially investigating Flynn's plan to kidnap a Turkish cleric. This story has been out there for a while but it's still bananas.


Under the alleged proposal, Mr. Flynn and his son, Michael Flynn Jr., were to be paid as much as $15 million for delivering Fethullah Gulen to the Turkish government, according to people with knowledge of discussions Mr. Flynn had with Turkish representatives. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has pressed the U.S. to extradite him, views the cleric as a political enemy.

Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have asked at least four individuals about a meeting in mid-December at the ‘21’ Club in New York City, where Mr. Flynn and representatives of the Turkish government discussed removing Mr. Gulen, according to people with knowledge of the FBI’s inquiries. The discussions allegedly involved the possibility of transporting Mr. Gulen on a private jet to the Turkish prison island of Imrali, according to one of the people who has spoken to the FBI.

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Mr. Gulen’s removal was discussed as “a covert step in the dead of night to whisk this guy away,” according to Mr. Woolsey, who said he attended the meeting at the request of one of Mr. Flynn’s business associates.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/muelle...d-plan-to-deliver-cleric-to-turkey-1510309982

 

[WakeForestRanger]

 

[Deacon923]

yeah that's how it goes when you're the first guy who rolls over in a federal investigation. suddenly all your old buddies aren't hanging out with you anymore.

 

[WakeandBake]

lol right? Even Trump's band of nitwit criminals are all snowflakey. Good lord

 

[avalon]

$15 million to deliver a guy to his likely death.

 

[deactherunner]

$15 million to deliver a guy to his likely death.

Gulen lives in my hometown now. My father has met him-they do a community thanksgiving dinner (outreach to local churches).

 

[RJKarl]

$15 million to deliver a guy to his likely death.

So, Kelly was a hitman and NSA...cool...

 

[avalon]

Papadopoulos was in regular contact with Stephen Miller, helped edit Trump speech

 

[Newenglanddeac]

Investigators probe Trump knowledge of campaign's Russia dealings: sources


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has questioned Sam Clovis, co-chairman of President Donald Trump’s election campaign, to determine if Trump or top aides knew of the extent of the campaign team’s contacts with Russia, two sources familiar with the investigation said on Friday.

The focus of the questions put to Clovis by Mueller’s team has not been previously reported.

“The ultimate question Mueller is after is whether candidate Trump and then President-elect Trump knew of the discussions going on with Russia, and who approved or even directed them,” said one source. “That is still just a question.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...mpaigns-russia-dealings-sources-idUSKBN1DB04J

 

[Newenglanddeac]

 

[dot com]

It's been weeks, no new arrests?

 

[Gooner]

It's been weeks, no new arrests?

I would imagine they are going to squeeze every last ounce of information they can get out of Papadopoulos before pursuing anything further. The people that Paps has dirt on know who they are, and as more and more leaks out about the content of the investigation, someone is going to freak out and come talking. If Mueller and co. start arresting people one after another, that will cause some to shut down and could stall the investigation further. Papadopoulos is in hand, he's talking, and he knows that he has to keep talking to avoid jail time. That will be enough for now.

 

[Newenglanddeac]

The former Trump campaign foreign-policy adviser George Papadopoulos told Stephen Miller, a senior policy adviser, in an email last April that he had received an "interesting message" from Russia - one day after learning that the Kremlin apparently had "dirt" on Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee.

The emails were disclosed in court documents filed by the special counsel Robert Mueller's office and unsealed late last month. The New York Times reported on Friday that Miller was the "senior policy adviser" described, but not named, in the court filings.

Miller, now a top White House policy adviser and speechwriter for President Donald Trump, was in regular contact with Papadopoulos over several months last year, the court filings show. He has reportedly been interviewed by Mueller as part of the special counsel's investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 US election and whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow to influence the outcome.

The court filings say that on April 25, 2016, after "multiple conversations" with a Russian national connected to Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Papadopoulos told Miller that "the Russian government has an open invitation by Putin for Mr. Trump to meet him when he is ready," referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"The advantage of being in London is that these governments tend to speak a bit more openly in 'neutral' cities," he said.

On April 26, Papadopoulos met with Joseph Mifsud - identified in the court filings as an "overseas professor" - for breakfast at a London hotel. There, Mifsud told Papadopoulos that he had learned from high-level Kremlin officials during his recent trip to Moscow that the Russians had "dirt" on Clinton in the form of "thousands of emails," the filings say.

Papadopoulos emailed Miller the next day.

"Have some interesting messages coming in from Moscow about a trip when the time is right," he wrote, the court filings say.

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Papadopoulos also emailed Paul Manafort on April 27 asking "to discuss Russia's interest in hosting Mr. Trump."

Manafort, who was then a campaign strategist but later became the campaign chairman, was described in the court filings as a "high-ranking campaign official."

"Have been receiving a lot of calls over the last month about Putin wanting to host him and the team when the time is right," Papadopoulos told Manafort.

'Is this something we want to move forward with?'

It is unclear whether Papadopoulos ever told Miller or Manafort what those "interesting messages" were. It is also unknown whether Papadopoulos' overtures extended to phone calls, which would not have been monitored or preserved.

But the young adviser continued to pitch a Trump-Putin meeting to high-level campaign officials, including Sam Clovis, the national cochairman identified in the filings as "the campaign supervisor," and Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager.

On April 30, Papadopoulos thanked Mifsud for his "critical help" in facilitating a meeting that would be "history making if it happens," the filings say.

About four days later, Papadopoulos' contact at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told him that the ministry was "open for cooperation." Papadopoulos forwarded that email to Manafort, asking, "Is this something we want to move forward with?"

On May 5, Papadopoulos called Clovis. After their phone call, he forwarded Clovis the ministry contact's email with a new subject line: "Russia updates."

Papadopoulos' efforts to arrange the Trump-Putin meeting continued through June.

"Russia has been eager to meet Mr. Trump for quite sometime and have been reaching out to me to discuss," Papadopoulos wrote to Manafort on May 21.

Manafort forwarded that email to his longtime business associate Rick Gates and said, "Let's discuss."

"We need someone to communicate that DT is not doing these trips," Manafort wrote. "It should be someone low level in the campaign so as not to send any signal."

 

[WakeandBake]

Why are they worried about "sending a signal?" This is a nothingburger, so who cares about signals?

 

[WakeForestRanger]

 

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[WakeForestRanger]

Special Counsel Mueller Issued Subpoena for Russia-Related Documents From Trump Campaign Officials
Senate committee also pressures Kushner lawyer to turn over more documents

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/sp...ents-from-trump-campaign-officials-1510875492

 

[Deacfreak07]

Special Counsel Mueller Issued Subpoena for Russia-Related Documents From Trump Campaign Officials
Senate committee also pressures Kushner lawyer to turn over more documents

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/sp...ents-from-trump-campaign-officials-1510875492

This could be a big turning point, because we know conservatives care a great deal about the integrity of handing over requested docu...lol. I almost made it.

 

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