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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see reed smith</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">pow</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">above the law</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman">Benchslapped Biglaw Partner Says Judge In Mueller Case Is Big Meanie In New Filing</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>He's not pleased that the 'self-proclaimed patriots' he's heard from want him to 'promptly die.'</div><div>By STACI ZARETSKY</div><div>Jan 9, 2019 at 1:42 PM</div><div>
</div><div>[T]he Court did not consider the fact that while the mainstream media has largely ignored Defendant’s pending motions, when the word “Judge” appears before a person’s name, this political adornment suggests to the public that there now is some higher level of wisdom than among the mere mortal lawyers in the case, and as such, every single mainstream media organization repeated the Court’s words as gospel. The direct consequence was swift and clear; that is, undersigned counsel have received overnight and continuing today a flow of hatred in the form of voicemail and electronic mail from self-proclaimed patriots containing threats, intimidation, and the desire that both undersigned counsel promptly die. One communication specified that the cause of death for Ms. [Katherine] Seikaly should be by fire. Apparently some of these brave self-proclaimed patriots were whipped into their frenzy by a cable television entertainer unknown to undersigned counsel named Rachel Maddow who devoted a significant portion of her variety program to the words spoken by the Court yesterday. So while counsel’s words used in advocacy can hurt, the words of a Judge can have devastating consequences.</div><div>
</div><div>— Reed Smith partner Eric Dubelier, in a filing submitted in the wake of being benchslapped by Judge Dabney Friedrich (D.D.C.) for his “unprofessional, inappropriate, and ineffective” filings made on behalf of his client, Concord Management and Consulting, in the Mueller investigation. Dubelier was summarily chastised by the likes of widely known MSNBC host Rachel Maddow for using profanity-laced quotes from the movie “Animal House” in the motion that made Judge Friedrich call him out.</div><div>---</div><div><div>‘Robert Mueller Has Nude Selfies’ Is The Headline That Defines The Law In 2018</div><div>We built a shining city on a hill. It sent us a picture of its junk.</div><div>By JOE PATRICE</div><div>Dec 28, 2018 at 11:15 AM</div><div>
</div><div>“So in the image…” (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)</div><div>
</div><div>Robert Mueller is doggedly chasing down multiple vectors of Russian interference in America’s elections in a sweeping probe that’s netted a ton of indictments and plea deals, making it truly disturbing to realize that in 2018 it’s entirely possible to consume only news telling you that none of this has happened and it’s all a witch hunt. Orwell famously envisioned a monolithic state media operation pumping out official disinformation. In reality, the future delivered one cable channel and a loose conglomeration of alternative media conspiracy theorists capable of weaponizing gullibility.</div><div>
</div><div>But far more disturbing is the allegation made in a filing yesterday that Mueller’s investigation has turned up some nude selfies. Taking a look at the cast of characters in this investigation and that’s a truly terrifying revelation.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The filing, by Concord Management and Consulting LLC objected to Mueller’s stance that details of some of his investigation methods must be addressed in camera for national security reasons. Considering the thrust of the overall investigation and Concord’s alleged ties to Putin surrogate Evgeny Prigozhin, this probably means some CIA shenanigans were involved in intercepting messages between hostile foreign operatives under surveillance.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>But Concord’s filing penned by Reed Smith’s Eric A. Dubelier and Katherine Seikaly takes an aggressive tone ripped from Sean Hannity’s nightly monologues, branding Mueller’s inquiry a “first-of-its-kind, make-believe case</b>” and deriding the idea that anything that’s turned up nude selfies could possibly be of national security import, giving the rest of us to the same, “wait, what?” reaction we had when we first heard some dumbass tell us that Grover dropped an F-Bomb (he didn’t).</span></div><div>
</div><div>Could the manner in which he collected a nude selfie really threaten the national security of the United States?</div><div>
</div><div>First of all… probably, yeah. Second of all, ew.</div><div>
</div><div>Who in this case is running around loading their camera with pictures of their junk? Maria Butina is obviously a suspect because the case against her plays out as some kind of twisted honey pot for some Destro wannabe. But get past Butina and it gets ugly fast. Paul Manafort wearing nothing but an ostrich-feather jacket? Michael Flynn’s 3-star dick? We should all cringe at where Michael Cohen’s intimate photo shoots go after this:</div><div>
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</div><div>Thanks Reed Smith for forcing us to never unsee this image. At least we can all pray we’re not talking about Trump’s toadstool.</div><div>
</div><div>(Full brief on the next page…)</div><div>
</div><div>‘Nude Selfie’ Obtained In Mueller Inquiry, Says Court Filing By Indicted Russian Firm [Huffington Post]</div></div><div>---</div><div><header style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="story-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 242);"><div class="meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 5px 0px; line-height: 1.667;">May 7, 2018 at 10:49 AM</div></div></header><div class="entry" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="content" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">If you’ve been following along with the legal twists and turns of the investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller, you know that one of the more interesting aspects was the indictment of 13 Russian citizens and three Russian businesses on crimes related to interference in the 2016 presidential election. Conventional wisdom has generally been that none of these entities would ever make an appearance or otherwise acknowledge the proceedings.<b> However, one of the Russian businesses, Concord Management, has tapped a Biglaw firm to rep them in court.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Concord Management has hired Reed Smith as their legal team. Partners&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reedsmith.com/en/professionals/d/dubelier-eric-a" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 1px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; line-height: inherit; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 242);">Eric A. Dubelier&nbsp;</a>(who according to his firm profile has a practice that focuses on international and domestic regulatory compliance and enforcement matters, white-collar criminal litigation, and civil false claims litigation) and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reedsmith.com/en/professionals/s/seikaly-katherine-j" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 1px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; line-height: inherit; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 242);">Katherine J. Seikaly&nbsp;</a>(her practice is in government and internal investigations, regulatory compliance and enforcement matters, and related litigation, with particular focus on the<b> False Claims Act (FCA)</b>) made their appearance on behalf of Concord Management last month. They’ve made a bunch of discovery requests seeking non-public information — and, as Politico&nbsp;<a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/judge-rejects-muellers-request-for-delay-in-russian-troll-farm-case/" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 1px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; line-height: inherit; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 242);">reports</a>, the requests seem to be a calculated move:</p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.125rem 1.25rem 0px 75px; margin: 0px 0px 1.11111rem; line-height: 1.6; font-style: italic; border-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); border-width: 1px 0px; clear: both; min-height: 45px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-style: normal;"><b>[T[he move appeared to be a bid to force Mueller’s team to turn over relevant evidence to the Russian firm and perhaps even to bait prosecutors into an embarrassing dismissal in order to avoid disclosing sensitive information.</b></p><div id="div-id-for-in-story-youtube-1x1" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The prosecution tried to delay the arraignment, saying it was unclear if Concord Management had been properly served. They sought additional briefing on the question of proper service, and additionally brought up concerns that the three businesses indicted are thought to be run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, also indicted in his individual capacity, and known as&nbsp; Vladimir Putin’s “chef.”</p><div class="ad-story-inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><div id="div-id-for-storycontent-440x100" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /></div><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.125rem 1.25rem 0px 75px; margin: 0px 0px 1.11111rem; line-height: 1.6; font-style: italic; border-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); border-width: 1px 0px; clear: both; min-height: 45px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-style: normal;">“Until the Court has an opportunity to determine if Concord was properly served, it would be inadvisable to conduct an initial appearance and arraignment at which important rights will be communicated and a plea entertained,” attorneys Jeannie Rhee, Rush Atkinson and Ryan Dickey wrote. “That is especially true in the context of this case, which involves a foreign corporate defendant, controlled by another, individual foreign defendant, that has already demanded production of sensitive intelligence gathering, national security, and foreign affairs information.”</p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The team from Reed Smith disputed the delay — and used a fancy SAT vocab word to make their point:</p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.125rem 1.25rem 0px 75px; margin: 0px 0px 1.11111rem; line-height: 1.6; font-style: italic; border-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); border-width: 1px 0px; clear: both; min-height: 45px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-style: normal;">“Defendant voluntarily appeared through counsel as provided for in [federal rules], and further intends to enter a plea of not guilty. Defendant has not sought a limited appearance nor has it moved to quash the summons. As such, the briefing sought by the Special Counsel’s motion is <b>pettifoggery,</b>” Dubelier and Seikaly wrote.</p></blockquote><div id="div-id-for-TL-inline-1" class="sponsor-inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 35px 0px 10px; clear: both;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">See, that’s the kind of quality a Biglaw firm brings to the table.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">And it seems U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich agreed the government’s position was pettifoggery. On Saturday, she ordered, with no further explanation, that the Wednesday arraignment would continue as scheduled.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Concord Management’s decision to go with Reed Smith is already paying dividend</p></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sparks flew in court Monday as one of the Russian firms charged by Special Counsel Robert Mueller lobbed bias allegations at a federal judge.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The hearing in Washington kicked off this morning with U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich complaining about multiple references to pop culture that have cropped up as of late in filings by Reed Smith attorney Eric Dubelier.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From “Casablanca” to “Animal House,” Friedrich cast Dubelier’s “clever quotes” as “unprofessional, inappropriate and ineffective.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’ll say it plain and simple,” Friedrich told Dubelier. “Knock it off.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dubelier, who is representing the Russian oligarch-owned firm Concord Management, did not take Friedrich’s instructions in stride.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“There appears to be some bias on the part of the court,” Dubelier said after remarking that his clients may want to replace him as counsel since the court finds him so unprofessional.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Raising her voice, the Trump-appointed Friedrich bent in to the microphone to deny Dubelier’s claims of bias. As the court scheduled another hearing for March, however, Dubelier managed to work in another quip.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Assuming I’m still representing the client that day should be fine,” he said.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Concord, which Mueller has accused of funding the troll farms that interfered in the 2016 presidential election, is the only one of multiple Russia-based defendants to respond to the charges against it.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The company has brought multiple challenges to Mueller’s authority and moved most recently to compel discovery on how Mueller obtained confidential information.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As to a protective order that Judge Friedrich granted in June to prevent Concord’s attorneys from sharing case details with third parties, Concord has also sought clarification on what kind of information deemed “sensitive” can be litigated in open court.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dubelier has claimed that the protective order prevents the defense from adequately planning for trial.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While Friedrich said today that she is “concerned about security breaches,” she compelled the two sides to sit down and communicate more openly about how exactly the protective order should work now that the case has left early stages.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Friedrich said Dubelier would prevail in his requests “if and only if the facts and the law are on your side.”</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://trump-russia.com/2019/01/23/benchslapped-the-eric-dubelier-file/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://trump-russia.com/2019/01/23/benchslapped-the-eric-dubelier-file/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><header style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -2px; line-height: 50px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">benchslapped: The Eric Dubelier File</font></h1></header><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; zoom: 1;"><div class="wp-block-image" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><figure class="alignleft is-resized" style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; display: table; max-width: 100%; zoom: 1; float: left;"><img data-attachment-id="18311" data-permalink="https://trump-russia.com/dubelier/" data-orig-file="https://i1.wp.com/trump-russia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/dubelier.jpg?fit=468%2C530&ssl=1" data-orig-size="468,530" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{" aperture="aperture" credit="credit" camera="camera" caption="caption" created_timestamp="created_timestamp" copyright="copyright" www.dupontphotographers.com="www.dupontphotographers.com" focal_length="focal_length" iso="iso" shutter_speed="shutter_speed" title="title" orientation="orientation" data-image-title="dubelier" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://i1.wp.com/trump-russia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/dubelier.jpg?fit=265%2C300&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i1.wp.com/trump-russia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/dubelier.jpg?fit=468%2C530&ssl=1" src="https://i1.wp.com/trump-russia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/dubelier.jpg?resize=167%2C189&ssl=1" alt="" class="wp-image-18311 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled" width="167" height="189" data-recalc-dims="1" data-lazy-loaded="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; max-width: 100%; height: auto; float: left;" /><figcaption style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; display: table-caption; clear: both; caption-side: bottom;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eric A. Dubelier
</font></figcaption></figure></div><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You might not realize it but a Russian company accused of financing an attack on American democracy is trying to use the U.S. court system to make a mockery of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.</font></p><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The company is Concord Management and Consulting LLC. The Russian company, owned by one of Putin’s cronies, stands accused of bankrolling the operations of the St. Petersburg-based Internet troll farm that bombarded Americans with divisive content on social media during the 2016 election.</font></p><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Not only has Concord Management pleaded not guilty to what it calls “a make-believe crime” — conspiracy to defraud the United States — it has battled to gain access to Mueller’s sensitive investigative files.</b></font></p><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No doubt it would be interesting to Concord and its Russian masters how Mueller was able to obtain such&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="detailed and devastating information (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(254, 119, 147);">detailed and devastating information.</a></font></p><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I was wondering what sort of attorney would represent a company like Concord Management.</font></p><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The answer, it turns out, is a bad one.</font></p><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His name is Eric A. Dubelier and he has somehow managed to reach the rank of partner at the firm Reed Smith LLP despite repeatedly embarrassing himself and his firm in court.</font></p><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His legal filings in the case quoted Flounder (!) from the film&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Animal House.</em>&nbsp;In open court, he pointed his finger at Jeannie Rhee, one of Mueller’s prosecutors, and said her claim that he had hung up on her in a phone call was “bullshit.”</font></p><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judge Dabney Friedrich called Dubelier’s actions “unprofessional, inappropriate, and ineffective.”</font></p><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is what is known in the legal profession as a “benchslap.”</font></p><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sure, it stings. Most attorneys just take it.</font></p><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not Dubelier. His response was a legal filing one observer described as&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.law.com/2019/01/09/in-petulant-filing-reed-smiths-dubelier-blames-judge-for-being-mean/?slreturn=20190022164351" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(254, 119, 147);">“breathtakingly petulant:”</a></font></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: url(" img="img" sprite.png="sprite.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin="margin" padding="padding" border-width="border-width" border-style="border-style" initial="initial" border-top-color="border-top-color" border-right-color="border-right-color" border-bottom-color="border-bottom-color" border-left-color="border-left-color" rgb="rgb" border-image="border-image" outline="outline" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" quotes="quotes" none="none"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Perhaps more importantly however, the Court did not consider the fact that while the mainstream media has largely ignored Defendant’s pending motions, when the word “Judge” appears before a person’s name, this political adornment suggests to the public that there now is some higher level of wisdom than among the mere mortal lawyers in the case, and as such, every single mainstream media organization repeated the Court’s words as gospel.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></blockquote><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How dare the media quote the judge!</font></p><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But there’s more.</font></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: url(" img="img" sprite.png="sprite.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin="margin" padding="padding" border-width="border-width" border-style="border-style" initial="initial" border-top-color="border-top-color" border-right-color="border-right-color" border-bottom-color="border-bottom-color" border-left-color="border-left-color" rgb="rgb" border-image="border-image" outline="outline" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" quotes="quotes" none="none"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The direct consequence was swift and clear; that is, undersigned counsel have received overnight and continuing today a flow of hatred in the form of voicemail and electronic mail from self-proclaimed patriots containing threats, intimidation, and the desire that both undersigned counsel promptly die. One communication specified that the cause of death for [co-counsel Katherine] Seikaly should be by fire.<b> Apparently some of these brave self-proclaimed patriots were whipped into their frenzy by a cable television entertainer unknown to undersigned counsel named Rachel Maddow who devoted a significant portion of her variety program to the words spoken by the Court yesterday.</b> So while counsel’s words used in advocacy can hurt, the words of a Judge can have devastating consequences.</font></p></blockquote><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dubelier’s humiliation is palpable. Which is surprising. It’s not the first time he’s been benchslapped.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg also benchslapped Dubelier in&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="her dissent in the case of Connick v. Thompson. (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-571.pdf" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(254, 119, 147);">her 2011 dissent in the case of Connick v. Thompson.</a></font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This case involved an infamous episode of prosecutorial misconduct in the death penalty case of John Thompson. (Thompson spent 14 years on Louisiana Death Row until an investigation found blood evidence that would have exonerated him was withheld from the defense. Dubelier was the special prosecutor on the case.)</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Here’s RBG’s benchslap of Dubelier:</font></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-image: url(" img="img" sprite.png="sprite.png" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-size="background-size" initial="initial" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" margin="margin" padding="padding" border-width="border-width" border-style="border-style" border-top-color="border-top-color" border-right-color="border-right-color" border-bottom-color="border-bottom-color" border-left-color="border-left-color" rgb="rgb" border-image="border-image" outline="outline" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" quotes="quotes" none="none"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On what basis can one be confident that law schools acquaint students with prosecutors’ unique obligation under&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Brady</em>? Whittaker told the jury he did not recall covering&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Brady</em>&nbsp;in his criminal procedure class in law school. Dubelier’s alma mater, like most other law faculties, does not make criminal procedure a required course.</font></p></blockquote><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Translation: Just because Eric Dubelier has a law degree doesn’t mean he knows the law.</font></span></p><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Brady</em>&nbsp;rule RBG is talking about is the 1963 Supreme Court case of&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Brady v Maryland.</em>&nbsp;Ever since that ruling, prosecutors have had to share with defense attorneys any evidence that might help exonerate a defendant.</font></p><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Dubelier, questioned under oath, could not articulate the&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Brady</em>&nbsp;rule</b>, according to&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/10/supreme-court-case-can-a-man-exonerated-of-capital-murder-sue-the-prosecutor-who-convicted-him.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(254, 119, 147);">a Slate article on the Thompson case.</a></font></p><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dubelier’s alma mater, Tulane University, bears some of the blame here. Dubelier spent the better part of a decade at Tulane, leaving a bachelor’s degree (with honors), an MBA, and finally, in 1984, a law degree.</font></p><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A year out of law school, Dubelier, working for the New Orleans district attorney’s office, embarrassed himself before Judge Oser in a high-profile point-shaving case against a former Tulane basketball star, John “Hot Rod” Williams.</font></p><div class="wp-block-image" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><figure class="aligncenter" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; display: table; max-width: 100%; zoom: 1;"><img data-attachment-id="18312" data-permalink="https://trump-russia.com/screen-shot-2019-01-22-at-3-06-58-pm/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/trump-russia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/screen-shot-2019-01-22-at-3.06.58-pm.png?fit=401%2C332&ssl=1" data-orig-size="401,332" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{" aperture="aperture" credit="credit" camera="camera" caption="caption" created_timestamp="created_timestamp" copyright="copyright" focal_length="focal_length" iso="iso" shutter_speed="shutter_speed" title="title" orientation="orientation" data-image-title="screen-shot-2019-01-22-at-3.06.58-pm" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/trump-russia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/screen-shot-2019-01-22-at-3.06.58-pm.png?fit=300%2C248&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/trump-russia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/screen-shot-2019-01-22-at-3.06.58-pm.png?fit=401%2C332&ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/trump-russia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/screen-shot-2019-01-22-at-3.06.58-pm.png?w=830&ssl=1" alt="" class="wp-image-18312 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled" data-recalc-dims="1" data-lazy-loaded="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; max-width: 100%; height: auto; float: left;" /></figure></div><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s another violation of the same&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Brady&nbsp;</em>obligations Justice RBG referenced earlier.</font></p><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judge Oser reversed himself and, later, dismissed the case again saying Dubelier had deliberately concealed&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Brady</em>&nbsp;material from the defense. Williams was acquitted in a retrial.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Despite his disastrous performance in the Hot Rod Williams case, Dubelier remained a close assistant to New Orleans District Attorney Harry Connick Sr. (the father of singer Harry Connick Jr.). It didn’t hurt that Dubelier was&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="briefly married to Connick's niece. (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/courts/article_752bc164-5ac7-11e8-aa95-834f28cf6483.html" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(254, 119, 147);">briefly married to Connick’s niece.</a></font></p><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After New Orleans, Dubelier spent more than a decade as a prosecutor the U.S. Attorney’s office, first in Miami and later in Washington, D.C. In his defense, he seems to have performed his duties without any more national embarrassments. One of the individuals he prosecuted was Francisco Martin Duran on charges of trying to assassinate President Clinton.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He left what now refers to as “the real Justice Department” in 1998 to join Reed Smith. One of his clients at Reed Smith was the widow of Andrew Breitbart, the founder of Breitbart News, which is interesting given his current representation of the (alleged) financier of the Russian troll farm.</font></p><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As for the Concord case, the troll farm lawyer got his revenge on the press when he trolled reporters with another filing that made a cryptic reference to a&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://xn--nude%20selfie%20mueller%22-om2p/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(254, 119, 147);">nude selfie in Mueller’s possession.</a></font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/30/1830996/-Russia-purposely-didn-t-just-leak-court-documents-from-Robert-Mueller-they-altered-them"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="4">https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/30/1830996/-Russia-purposely-didn-t-just-leak-court-documents-from-Robert-Mueller-they-altered-them</font></a></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Concord Management and Consulting, the indicted Russian “company” that provided funding for the Russian effort to weaponize social media, leaked information from non-public court documents to undercut the case being made by the special counsel’s office. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">To release the information, the Russian company created yet another fake company, Redstone Hacking, which claimed to have “hacked Russian server with info from the Russian troll case,” but in fact Concord was just releasing its own copy of court documents—but not without making a few changes.</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In February 2018, the special counsel indicted 13 Russian individuals associated with Concord Management and the collection of Russian operatives masquerading as a company called the Internet Research Agency. The IRA was the core of Russia’s social media effort to support Donald Trump. It generated the fake sites for not just “groups” that supported Trump, but also the sites that weaponized American racism. Fake “Black Lives Matter” sites intended to frighten white voters in critical areas were being created by the same people making fake “Hillary hates blacks” sites that were intended to suppress African-American votes. Similarly, the Russian agency played nonexistent extremes on both sides of immigration, of gun safety, and of every issue that could be used to lever open a gap among American voters. The militant messages at “Blacktivist” came from the Russians. So did the xenophobic rants at “Secured Borders.”&nbsp;</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The workers at the IRA created dozens of Facebook accounts, Twitter accounts, webpages, and a network of connections among them. Then they created thousands of bots, each of which had its own set of accounts and provided apparent heft and popularity to the core accounts. They even sent actual Russian agents to actual American cities to stage actual protests.<b> On Twitter alone, the IRA created 3,800 known accounts and sent 176,000 tweets that were seen by millions of Americans. Some of those tweets were retweeted by such conservative Trump supporters as Ann Coulter. Some of them were retweeted by members of Trump’s campaign, like Michael Flynn. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The YouTube videos the IRA created also got broad notice on the right. So did their GIF memes. And when they had trouble getting an idea to break through organically, the Russians did it the old-fashioned way: They bought ads. All of it as part of the effort to help Donald Trump. At least 90 people worked full-time at this effort—and that doesn’t include the “over 100 Americans” that they either recruited or attempted to recruit.&nbsp;</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On Wednesday, the special counsel’s office made a new court filing opposing the publication of some documents related to the Concord case. And, as CNN reports,&nbsp; the filing reveals that Concord Management has already been busy conducting its own document release—against court orders. And the Russians have been making changes to the documents they release. The new filing states that "Certain non-sensitive discovery materials in the defense's possession appear to have been altered and disseminated as part of a disinformation campaign aimed (apparently) at discrediting ongoing investigations into Russian interference in the U.S. political system.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CNN and BBC reporter Josh Russell was one of several people who received information from a new Twitter account under the name of Redstone Hacking.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Redstone claimed to have “special access” to court documents obtained by hacking into a Russian server with information on the case against Concord and the Internet Research Agency. But it now appears that Redstone was Concord “hacking” its own documents to leak out selections.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Exactly what Concord Management/Internet Research Agency/Redstone Hacking altered in the documents they released isn’t clear, because for the most part the documents they produced were still not available to the public.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Lead&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Concord</span>&nbsp;attorney Eric A.&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Dubelier</span>, of Reed Smith in Washington, declined to ...</font></div></div></div><div id="r1-3" class="result results_links_deep highlight_d result--url-above-snippet" data-domain="www.emptywheel.net" data-hostname="www.emptywheel.net" data-nir="1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; opacity: 1; visibility: visible;">/2019/01/30/the-disinformation-campaign-targeting-mueller-and-the-delayed-briefing-to-ssci-on-russian-election-interference/</span></a></font></div></div><div class="resultsnippet js-result-snippet" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.45; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To substantiate an argument that&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Concord</span>&nbsp;Management should not be able to share with Yevgeniy Prigozhin the sensitive&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">discovery</span>&nbsp;that the government has shared with their trollish lawyers, Mueller revealed that on October 22, someone posted 1000 files turned over in&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">discovery</span>&nbsp;along with a bunch of other crap, partially nested within the file structure of the files turned over in&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">discovery</span>.</font></div></div></div><div id="r1-4" class="result results_links_deep highlight_d result--url-above-snippet" data-domain="www.reddit.com" data-hostname="www.reddit.com" data-nir="1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; font-variant-numeric: inherit; 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vertical-align: baseline; opacity: 1; visibility: visible;">/r/Keep_Track/comments/alh7e0/special_counsel_muellers_team_alleges_that/</span></a></font></div></div><div class="resultsnippet js-result-snippet" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.45; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On that same date, a reporter contacted the Special Counsel's Office to advise that the reporter had received a direct message on Twitter from an individual who stated that they had received&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">discovery</span>&nbsp;material by&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">May 4, 2018</span>On Friday, Mueller's prosecutors disclosed that&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Concord's</span>&nbsp;attorneys, Eric&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Dubelier</span>&nbsp;and Kate Seikaly, had made a slew of&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">discovery</span>&nbsp;requests demanding nonpublic details about the case and the investigation. Prosecutors also asked a judge to postpone the formal arraignment of&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Concord</span>&nbsp;Management set for next week.</font></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div class="entry-body" style="clear: both; background-color: rgb(249, 250, 232);"><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>federal judge in Washington today criticized prosecutors for litigation tactics in a foreign bribery case that kept defense lawyers in the dark about key notes that belong to a government witness.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judge Richard Leon of Washington federal district court, presiding over a high-profile Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case, questioned the extent to which prosecutors tried to keep the notes hidden to secure an advantage.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Leon warned the government that “sharp” tactics, where prosecutors try to secure even the slightest advantage, will not be tolerated. The judge refused to declare a mistrial. But he did strike a part of a witness's testimony to sanction the government.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prosecutors, the judge said in an oral ruling this afternoon, chose to keep the existence of the notes from the court and the defense lawyers, leaving it to chance that the notes would never come up. The judge questioned the government’s “calculated” move, saying the government “effectively snookered” the defense about whether or not the witness even had any notes.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>At issue are notes that a man named Thomas O’Dea wrote in February 2010. O’Dea prepared a chronology of events of his activity in the fictitious arms and supply deal the government set up involving the government of Gabon.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Gabon deal is at the heart of the FCPA prosecution in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. In all, 20 defendants were charged for their alleged participation in a deal that required an illegal payment to complete a business transaction. The defendants, executives in the arms and military equipment industry, were arrested in January 2010.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prosecutors said O’Dea, who received immunity from criminal charges, prepared the chronology at the direction of a personal attorney. O’Dea used his notes as he prepared for his testimony during the trial.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The notes referenced post-arrest statements from at least one defendant,<b> R. Patrick Caldwell, represented by Reed Smith partner Eric Dubelier</b>. Leon said some of the statements could be characterized as exculpatory. Others arguably pointed to Caldwell’s guilt, the judge said.</font></p></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a id="more" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(249, 250, 232);"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 250, 232);" /></a></font><div class="entry-more" style="clear: both; background-color: rgb(249, 250, 232);"><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The government’s legal team, including Laura Perkins and Matthew Graves, said they believed the attorney-client privilege protected O’Dea’s communication from disclosure to defense lawyers.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Perkins and Graves also said that since the government was never in possession of the notes, the prosecution did not have an obligation to turn over the information. Prosecutors instructed O’Dea not to reveal to them his communication with private lawyers, including any notes written at the advice of counsel.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“If such a due-process requirement did exist, or if it were created, then it would substantially curtail the scope and efficacy of a witness’s attorney-client privilege within the criminal process,” prosecutors said Wednesday in a court filing.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The existence of the notes surfaced on cross-examination on Dec. 12, court records show. A lawyer for Caldwell asked O’Dea about his certainty of his recollection of a conversation with Caldwell.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lawyers for Caldwell urged Leon to grant a mistrial. Giordanella’s attorneys at Carlton Fields, including Paul Calli and Stephen Bronis, asked the judge to strike O’dea’s testimony.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prosecutors said the late disclosure of the notes did not hurt the defense lawyers, who can now use them for the cross-examination of O'Dea, which is set to continue this afternoon.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leon said in court today that it wasn’t fair to strike O’Dea’s testimony altogether. Instead, the judge said he would tell jurors this afternoon to disregard anything O’Dea said about his conversation with Caldwell after his arrest.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Leon warned prosecutors not to cut any corners</b> during the rest of the case or in any other prosecution in his court. Trials for other defendants in the case are scheduled for next year, including in February and in May.</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...A<span style="background-color: rgb(249, 250, 232); font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif">fter months of wrangling over Breitbart's role in the case following his death in March 2012, lawyers for the plaintiff have</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 250, 232); font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif">&nbsp;</span><span class="asset asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451d94869e2019affd5b4cd970c" style="background-color: rgb(249, 250, 232); font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif"><a href="https://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/sherrod-motion-to-substitute.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">asked the court</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 250, 232); font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 250, 232); font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif">to substitute Susannah Breitbart as a defendant. Over the weekend, lawyers for Susannah Breitbart, represented by Reed Smith,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 250, 232); font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif">&nbsp;</span><span class="asset asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451d94869e2019affd5a88d970b" style="background-color: rgb(249, 250, 232); font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif"><a href="https://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/susannah-breitbart-response.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">filed papers</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 250, 232); font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 250, 232); font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif">opposing that request.</span></font></div><div class="entry-body" style="clear: both; font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former U.S. Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod sued Breitbart, Breitbart's colleague Larry O'Connor and an anonymous third defendant in the Washington federal trial court over a video clip of Sherrod speaking that was posted on Breitbart's website. Sherrod accused Breitbart of "deceptively" editing the clip to make it seem as though Sherrod, who is black, discriminated against a white farmer.</font></p></div><a id="more" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" /></font></a><div class="entry-more" style="clear: both; font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a id="more" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" /></font><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 250, 232); margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a id="more" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a id="more" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" /><a id="more" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" /><a id="more" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" /><a id="more" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Sherrod agreed to her superiors' request to resign after the clip came out. However, she received apologies from the White House and other officials after the full version of her speech was released, showing she said she ultimately rejected making decisions based on race.</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 250, 232); margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a id="more" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="Verdana" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">At a hearing last month, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon&nbsp;</a><a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202618971221" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">expressed his frustration</a>&nbsp;that lawyers in the case had not figured out the status of Breitbart's estate and what his death would mean for the case moving forward.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 250, 232); margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Several weeks later, Sherrod, represented by Kirkland & Ellis, asked the court to substitute Susannah Breitbart as a defendant. Her lawyers argued Sherrod's lawsuit could continue against his successor-in this case, his widow-under D.C. and California law (Breitbart lived in California).</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 250, 232); margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On October 5, Susannah Breitbart agreed that she and her children were the successors to Andrew Breitbart, who died without a will. However, she argued Sherrod was asking for damages "in excess of amounts allowed" under California law that addresses litigation after the death of a party.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 250, 232); margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sherrod didn't specify how much money she wanted in her complaint, except to say she was seeking compensatory and punitive damages. Susannah Breitbart quoted a section of the California Code of Civil Procedure saying punitive damages could not be recovered from a decedent's successor.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Susannah Breitbart is represented by Reed Smith partner Eric Dubelier. He wasn’t immediately reached for comment. Sherrod's lawyer, Thomas Clare, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, declined to comment.</font></b></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 250, 232); margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Breitbart's co-defendant, Larry O'Connor, who’s represented by Baker & Hostetler, did not take a position on whether Susannah Breitbart should become a defendant, according to Sherrod's court filing.</font></font></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/06/22/mueller-frees-up-the-troll-team/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/06/22/mueller-frees-up-the-troll-team/</font></a></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><div id="comment-740291" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(212, 212, 212); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; min-height: 100px; float: left; width: 898.531px; background-color: rgb(246, 246, 240);"><article style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(212, 212, 212); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment_content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(212, 212, 212); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; z-index: 10; overflow: hidden;"><header class="comment-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(212, 212, 212); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(212, 212, 212); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(212, 212, 212); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">j<a href="https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/06/22/mueller-frees-up-the-troll-team/#comment-740291" data-wpel-link="internal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(212, 212, 212); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%;">une 23, 2018 at 4:15 pm</a></font></time></font></font></div></header><div class="comment_text entry-content-wrapper clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1; clear: both;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(212, 212, 212); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yeah, I thought Devlin Barrett was weirdly off the mark with his reading of the trollfarm filing as the beginning of a wind-down: it might partly be because this is going to be stretched out for ages, but Mueller isn’t going to waste his top team members’ time on Eric Dubelier’s theatrical filings. (Again, I’m fine with Dubelier being paid to be a dick while making a few sharp legal points about the theatrics of indicting people outside US jurisdiction, but everybody on both sides knows exactly what the game is.)</font></font></font></p></div></div></article></div><ul class="children" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 74px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-style: dashed; border-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-image: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: outside none; clear: both; background-color: rgb(246, 246, 240);"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-emptywheel bypostauthor odd alt depth-2" id="li-comment-740324" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(212, 212, 212); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: outside; width: 823.531px; position: relative; display: block; background: 0px 0px; min-height: 100px; clear: both;"><div id="comment-740324" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(212, 212, 212); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; min-height: 100px; float: left; width: 823.531px;"><article style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(212, 212, 212); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment_content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px rgb(212, 212, 212); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; z-index: 1; overflow: hidden;"><header class="comment-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(212, 212, 212); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="author_name heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(212, 212, 212); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">emptywheel</font></cite><span class="says" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px 0px; border: 0px rgb(212, 212, 212); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; height: 1px; left: -70px; position: absolute; text-indent: 200%; top: 18px; width: 40px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">says:</font></span></font></font><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(212, 212, 212); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/06/22/mueller-frees-up-the-troll-team/#comment-740324" data-wpel-link="internal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(212, 212, 212); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(212, 212, 212); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">June 24, 2018 at 8:12 am</font></time></a></font></font></div></header><div class="comment_text entry-content-wrapper clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1; clear: both;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(212, 212, 212); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Well said, particularly about the fairness of Dubelier getting paid to be a dick and make a few key points. Though I will ALSO say that I think Prigozhin is genuinely trying to either force out some intel or force Mueller to shut down that prosecution. By making sure there are four people who can focus on Dubelier, you decrease the chance there’ll be a costly mistake on either point.</font></font></font></p></div></div></article></div></li></ul></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">lewsinsky trial starr</font></font></font></div><div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><u>Third</u>, the OIC went after Julie Hiatt Steele who contradicted the story of her life-long friend, Kathleen Wiley, that Clinton had made sexual advancements on her.</font></b></font></font></p><p style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Starr learned of Wiley’s allegations against the president, she became a pivotal witness in his crusade to nail down Clinton. But in Steele’s grand jury testimony, she maintained that Wiley asked her to lie to&nbsp;<i>Newsweek</i>&nbsp;reporter Michael Isikoff about her alleged sexual encounter with Clinton. Steele said, "I told Mr. Isikoff that I wanted to set the record straight before he published the story and I proceeded to explain to him that Ms. Wiley had asked me to lie to support her version of the event and that I had in fact, done so. I told him that I had not seen Ms. Wiley the day she claimed to have met with President Clinton and that I had never heard any allegations of improper conduct by President Clinton until she called to tell me her story in 1992 as Mr. Isikoff was en route to my home."</font></font></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Starr obviously hoped to discredit Steele's credibility as a witness</b>. Starr's deputies twice subpoenaed her to testify before a grand jury. His deputies combed through bank, credit, and telephone records. The independent counsel also subpoenaed her family members including her daughter and her neighbors. Steele's tax accountant was subpoenaed twice. Starr's office also inquired about the legality in her adoption of an orphan from Romania in 1990. All this was done to determine if she was vulnerable to threats emanating from the White House.</font></font></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The very day that the Senate impeachment trial opened -- January 7, 1999 -- a grand jury indicted Steele on charges of obstructing justice and lying when she contested Willey's story that the president sexually harassed her.</span> Steele was charged with three counts of obstruction of justice and one count of false statements. Among other things, the indictment accused Steele of filing a false affidavit in the Jones litigation. The indictment said that Steele initially declined to sign the affidavit on January 28 on the advice of her attorney but that "sometime thereafter ... changed her mind." It did not state why she supposedly changed her mind, but did state that she was interviewed by "an attorney for President Clinton" three weeks before signing the affidavit on February 13. Steele plead not guilty to the charges.</font></font></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" /><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steele’s attorney, Nancy Luque, charged that Starr had a conflict of interest because of his prior contact with lawyers in the Jones case before he was appointed to investigate the Clintons. Starr spoke on several occasions with Jones's lawyers about whether a civil case could move forward against a sitting president. Luque claimed that the indictment was incorrectly filed in Virginia because Starr wanted to avoid dealing with the federal courts in the District of Columbia. Luque also said that Starr had a conflict of interest stemming from the Jones case.</font></font></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In May 1999, Steele’s trial on charges of obstruction of justice and making false statements. began.</b> It was puzzling that Starr singled out Steele because she retracted her earlier support for Wiley's story. Why did Starr choose to believe Wiley instead of Steele's sworn retraction that questioned Wiley's truthfulness? To add to Starr’s flimsy case, another witness cast more doubt on Wiley’s claim that she was fondled by the president. Harolyn Cardozo, like Steele an ex-friend of Wiley's, told the FBI that Wiley boasted that she could become famous as a Clinton accuser. In addition, Wiley reportedly had passed one polygraph test but failed another. Steele's lawyers refused to confirm this, but they did say, "There is a substantial polygraph issue with regard to their own witnesses."</font></font></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Steele repeatedly claimed that Wiley was lying and that Starr did not want to believe the truth -- that Steele knew nothing about Clinton’s alleged advances toward Wiley.</b> On the other hand, Wiley charged that Steele was lying. Both Tripp and Susan McDougal damaged Starr’s case. Earlier, Tripp had testified that, when Wiley left the Oval Office after she alleged that she was fondled, she appeared disheveled. However, Tripp claimed that Wiley appeared to have enjoyed the encounter and was not upset as Wiley had claimed to have been. In addition, McDougal testified that Starr should have been the person on trial for attempting to force false testimony. Thus, the story played out to each player pointing the finger at another: Steele accusing Wiley; Wiley accusing Steele; Tripp accusing Wiley; Starr accusing Tripp; and McDougal accusing Starr.</font></font></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" /><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Starr’s deputies called Mitchell Ettinger who was a former member of Jones’ legal team. He testified that he asked Steele to sign an affidavit saying Wiley had asked her to lie about the encounter with Clinton. Ettinger testified that after some initial reluctance, Steele ultimately agreed to sign the affidavit, but "I can tell you it wasn't at my urging."</font></font></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Wiley was constantly attacked by Steele’s attorneys. </b>She was accused of lying about the incident and forgetting key details. Wiley acknowledged repeated lapses of memory and contradictions in her accounts of how she was allegedly fondled. She placed some blame on a mystery jogger who she said threatened her just days before she gave a deposition in 1998. Wiley said a man approached her and addressed her by name. She testified that "he asked if I had found my cat" which had disappeared, and whether she had gotten new tires for her car, which had been vandalized. He also knew her children's names. Wiley said that when she asked the man how he knew these details, he answered, "You're just not getting the message, are you?"</font></font></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steele’s attorneys portrayed Wiley as a vindictive woman bent on damaging the credibility and character of Steele. Wiley was forced to concede that she had told Starr’s office damaging gossip about Steele and other associates. Wiley also admitted that she told the OIC that Steele's adoption of a Romanian boy may have been improper as well as stating that Steele had an eating disorder and that another woman she knew may have slept with the president. Steele’s attorneys also pressed Wiley on whether she had used Steele as "an alibi" to cover up a trip to Philadelphia to see a married policeman. Wiley was forced to acknowledge that she had lied to Starr's office about the circumstances of an ugly breakup with a boyfriend. Steele’s attorneys claimed that Starr’s office had given Wiley a new immunity deal and continued to use her testimony in pursuing Steele even after Wiley admitted lying to them about the ex-boyfriend.</font></font></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In May, Steele's trial ended when the jury was "hopelessly deadlocked." The mistrial was a second setback in a month to Starr's office. Just weeks before, a Little Rock jury acquitted Susan McDougal of one count of obstructing justice when she refused to testify before a grand jury about the Clintons' Arkansas financial dealings.</font></font></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>During Steele's trial, her attorney,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> Eric Dubelier, </span>attacked the motives and tactics of Starr's prosecutors. </b>He asked Wiley to describe a confrontation with Steele at a Richmond supermarket over Easter weekend. Wiley acknowledged that she had called Steele an obscenity. Dubelier continued to question the credibility of Wiley who was forced to acknowledge that she had lied to investigators about a relationship she had in 1995 with a younger man. She said she did so because she was embarrassed about the affair.</font></font></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shortly after the mistrial, Starr announced that he would not seek to retry both Steele and Susan McDougal.</font></b></font></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></font></font></div></div>