Doesn’t pass the smell test. It’s not like you can actually enforce a judgment against Russian oligarchs, and even village idiot Deutche Bank knows that.
Then again, good god banks are fucking stupid and terrible.
It’s easy to enforce a judgment against their US owned property or even bank assets.
That guy has popped up in a bunch of things over the years basically playing the same guy. I remember him from Summer of Sam. I can never remember his name though heh
Their “us property” is an empty penthouse owned by “I’m a criminal lol llc.” C’mon man.
That’s a good point, but still likely doable if they have enough assets. some will be attachable/executable.
That wasn’t what was he tasked to do. Rosenstein kept that shit as narrow as humanly possible.
Same. Not a single person I know thought it was Stain. Life hasn’t been the same since.
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edit: sad I was proud of myself for a second
I’d rather not get into it, but they sure as shit didn’t make it seem like Mueller was never going to investigate stable’s finances in all those “Mueller knows everything” segments (on MSNBC in particular).
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I suppose it’s cool from time to time that POTUS can call some rando pundit a complete bitch (and be right for once)
From page 397 of the PDF, here’s what he was tasked to do:
Here’s a description of 600.4:
Don’t make a mistake here, Mueller uncovered a bunch of financial crimes or things that looked like financial crimes but none of that was under his purview. Those got referred elsewhere and are probably still ongoing. The House Intelligence Committee knows what all these investigations are from the unredacted Mueller report, and they’re keeping an eye on them (Schiff also said they’re depending on whistleblowers if anything goes sideways on any of those). Several other Committee heads have read the unredacted report as well, but even the regular members of the Judiciary Committee have not gotten to see the unredacted report.
Mueller’s personal team just didn’t do the investigations of any of that stuff. Almost all of it probably went to other U.S. Attorney Offices and the FBI. The closest they got to investigating a financial crime was the Cohen improprieties related to Trump Moscow as far as I can remember. Cohen was too stupid to do anything right, and that’s the only reason nothing consummated.
So if he’s really going to use Doral for the G7 wouldn’t the rooms have to be booked like a year in advance? So when’s the deposit due?
I would think that an investigation of were there any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and stable’s campaign would include, thought bubble, investigating stable’s financial interests with Russians? I will not bother to do this, but I’m guessing I can find more than one lawbro of Preet’s caliber saying that investigating stable’s finances was always within Mueller’s mandate.
I’m not playing guess what’s in the magical redacted report or what some other save the day committee will unearth; if/when more information comes out I will take it into account. What I’m saying though is that if that tweet is accurate (I’m skeptical atm) and that there are records of Russians co-signing millions? of dollars of stable’s loans, then some gross failure occurred, either in the special counsel investigation itself or in our information industrial complex, which, overflowing with experts, should have gotten it across at least to me that stable’s finances were not going to be investigated by the SCO.
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Correct me if I’m wrong here, but anything farmed out would fall under the purview of one William Barr, right?
At the end of Lawrence’s broadcast he made it very clear that what he reported was one source from Deutsche Bank who talked directly to him. He said that he has not seen any documents, and that a lot more vetting would need to be done before it can be verified.
You’re getting tripped up on language in the mandate. They are very specific that they mean official Russian government. It’s semantic stupidity, but he followed it to the letter. There are financial crimes outlined in the report, but if you think this was an investigation about Trump specifically you’re quite wrong. He was barely even mentioned in Volume I. The investigation was about Russian government interference and where that led with other members of the campaign. I hate asking the question, but you did read the report, right?
That is correct.