https://saraacarter.com/robert-mueller-andrew-weissmann-the-fbi-and-the-mob/ Robert Mueller, Andrew Weissmann, the FBI and the Mob By Sara Carter | March 21, 2018 | 10:35 PM EDT Special Counsel Robert Mueller III and lead attorney in the Special Counsel’s Office Andrew Weissmann have been connected to one another throughout most of their careers, and both men moved quickly to the top tackling major crime syndicates and white-collar crime. Ironically, both men were also connected in two of the biggest corruption investigations in FBI history. But rarely are Weissmann and Mueller’s past cases discussed in the media. Their past is relevant because it gives a roadmap to the future — now that these two longtime colleagues are charged with one of the most controversial investigations into a president in recent history. “The integrity of the “investigation” and of the “investigators” must be a paramount priority in our criminal justice system at all times,” said David Schoen, a civil rights and defense attorney, who has been outspoken on the special counsel investigation. “Certainly this fundamental guiding principle must be followed when it comes to an investigation of the duly elected President of the United States. The outcome potentially affects every one of us in very real terms…There were many alternatives to Mr. Mueller and his team and all of their very troubling baggage.” “(Mueller and Weissmann) were both connected to two of the biggest scandals in FBI history,” Schoen added. Special Counsel spokesman, Peter Carr, declined to comment. Weissman, described by the New York Times as Mueller’s ‘pit bull’ was Mueller’s legal advisor for national security in 2005 and later was selected by Mueller to be his General Counsel at the FBI. It made sense for Mueller, who left his $3.4 million a year job at the top D.C. law firm WilmerHale, to bring Weissmann with him to the special counsel team to investigate President Trump and his alleged collusion with Russia in the 2016 election. Weissmann, was a specialist in tracking financing and corruption, was at the time head of the Department of Justice’s criminal fraud section. Mueller saw nobody better than Weissmann to help navigate the murky waters of the investigation and Weissmann was lauded by some and criticized by others, for doing whatever it took to win a case, as reported. Mueller was also aware of critical issues with Weissmann’s handling of the Enron and Arthur Anderson cases, as well as his involvement in the Eastern District of New York’s case against the Colombo crime family. “(Mueller and Weissmann) were both connected to two of the biggest scandals in FBI history…” Attorney David Schoen Weissmann’s involvement in the Colombo case in the 1990s was the first of many cases that would draw criticism from his peers but this case, in particular, would be one of the FBI’s biggest blunders. As I outlined last month, Judge Charles P. Sifton reprimanded Weissmann for withholding evidence from the defense, as previously reported. Weissmann allowed a corrupt FBI agent to testify against the defendants in the case despite having knowledge that the agent was under investigation. The agent had a nefarious relationship with a reputed underboss of the Colombo crime family, who was accused later of numerous murders, court records reveal. Mueller had similar troubles during the 1980s in Boston when he was Acting U.S. Attorney from 1986 through 1987. Under Mueller’s watch in Boston, another one of the FBI’s most scandalous cases occurred. At the time, an FBI agent by the name of John Connolly, who is now in prison for murder-related charges, had been the handler for James ‘Whitey’ Bulger. Bulger, who Connolly aided in escaping FBI custody in the 90s, was a notorious mobster and murderer who had been working as a confidential informant for the FBI against other crime syndicates in the Boston area. Mueller, who oversaw the FBI during his time there, was criticized by the media and congressional members for how the situation in Boston was handled. Bulger, who committed numerous murders during his time as an informant, disappeared for more than 16 years until he was finally captured in California in 2011; by that time Mueller was director of the FBI. James ‘Whitey’ Bulger “Many have suggested (Mueller) never should have been FBI Director, a position in which he then hired Weissmann to be his counsel – and, of course, Weissman presided over the No. 1 most corrupt relationship between an FBI agent (Lyn Devecchio) and his informant (Greg Scarpa, Sr.),” Schoen said. The defendants in the Colombo related cases were acquitted after it was discovered that Weissmann and his team had withheld evidence. There were 16 defendants in front of 48 different jurors and 4 different judges. Three others had their convictions overturned. Two men convicted without the evidence having been revealed remain in prison, serving life sentences. At one trial, Weissmann and his co-counsel expressly vouched for the integrity of the corrupt agent, concealing the corruption, and arguing to the jury that if they had any reason to believe the agent lied about anything they should acquit the defendant, according to court records and Schoen. But Mueller and Weissmann’s past isn’t part of the public discussion. The special counsel investigation has enjoyed, overall, bipartisan support from senior lawmakers. Recently, however, the tide may be shifting against the ongoing investigation, which has yet to prove collusion. Evidence has surfaced over the past year revealing the FBI’s partisan behavior and the bureau’s role in targeting the Trump investigation. The DOJ’s Inspector General Michael Horowitz, as well as Congress, have uncovered troves of documents that have led to the removal, demotion or firing of numerous FBI agents and DOJ officials. Last week, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was fired by the DOJ on a recommendation by the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility after it received evidence revealing McCabe lied under oath and authorized a leak to the Wall Street Journal, as reported. Special Counsel Robert Mueller III and Whitey Bulger James ‘Whitey’ Bulger: a notorious gangster and murderer from Boston, who was also a long time confidential informant of the FBI. During the 1980s, Mueller served as an assistant US attorney and then as the acting US attorney in Boston. The FBI was under his supervision during the time Bulger was an informant. Former FBI Special Agent John Connolly, who is now in prison for racketeering and murder-related charges, had been the handler for James ‘Whitey’ Bulger. He allegedly tipped off Bulger that one of his business associates was going to testify against him. Bulger had his associate murdered. Bulger was a confidential informant for the FBI since 1975 and escaped arrest by the FBI in the 90s after his FBI handler informed Bulger an arrest was imminent. He was on the run for 16 years and captured in 2011. Mueller was then director of the FBI. In 1965 four men were convicted of a murder that the FBI later learned they did not commit. Three of the men faced death sentences. The FBI had learned during the time Bulger was an informant that the men did not commit the murders. The men served decades in prison and two of them died in prison. A jury trial revealed that the FBI had known the men were innocent but withheld the evidence from state law enforcement authorities. In 2007, a jury awarded more than $101 million in damages to the surviving men and their families. However, during the time the men were in prison Mueller wrote multiple letters to the parole and pardons board opposing clemency for the four men. Mueller never answered questions as to what he knew about the case or if he was aware of the men’s innocence, as reported extensively by Kevin Cullen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer with the Boston Globe. In 2013, Bulger went on trial for 32 counts of racketeering, money laundering and extortion. He was also indicted on weapons charges and 19 counts of murder.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/2014...ver-up-of-murders-involving-boston-fbi-agents DOJ Complicity and Cover-Up of Murders Involving Boston FBI Agents Published on September 4, 2014 Rodney Stich Investigator and corruption-fighter. at Hardcore-corruption-fighting whistleblower The following are excerpts from the book, DOJ Corruption-Enabled al Qaeda Successes, authored by Captain Rodney Stich, one of over 20 books in the Defrauding America book series. DOJ Cover-Up of MurdersInvolving Boston FBI Agents For years, several CIA assets had given me the names of FBI agents involved in assassinations. I could never get myself to write about what they were telling me. It was too bizarre to comprehend that FBI agents, entrusted with protecting people, would be engaged in murdering them. And that higher FBI and DOJ officials were protecting the murders. However, criminal proceedings and civil lawsuits filed in the Boston area in the 1990s provided proof that some FBI agents secretly worked with crime figures in murders and other crimes. Investigative newspaper reports and criminal proceedings provided the details of these happenings in the Boston FBI offices, and implicated high FBI and DOJ officials in Washington. FBI Corruption and Murders in Boston Office Indicated Deep-Seated Culture Throughout FBI and DOJ Over the years the instances of corruption involving FBI personnel had been kept off the public radar, but this would change in the 1990s when decades of FBI involvement in murders and other criminal acts were exposed by courageous media people in the Boston area. Media outlets elsewhere kept the lid on this scandal. This attention was brought about by the large number of murdered victims in the Boston area associated with the FBI-criminal relationship. If it weren’t for determined investigative reporters at the Boston Globe and the Hartford Courant, the murderous conduct would probably still be functioning as it had for the past 20 years. Helping to expose these matters were two reporters for the Boston Globe, Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill. They authored the book, Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the FBI and a Devil’s Deal. The following was revealed by affidavits, testimony, court proceedings, and government records. FBI Boston Office a Criminal Enterprise—Sanctioned by Washington FBI and DOJ Officials The courageous media reporting and court proceedings revealed decades of FBI agents misusing their FBI positions to protect the murderous Boston-based crime group known as the Winter Hill gang headed by James “Whitey” Bulger and his partner, Steven “The Rifleman” Flemmi. Under the pretext of using Bulger and Flemmi as confidential informants, FBI agents, and particularly FBI Agent John Connolly, protected the crime group against state and federal prosecution and provided them insider information about wiretaps and pending indictments so they could protect themselves. FBI agent Connolly’s corruption began in 1976 when he accepted gifts from Bulger and returned the favors by giving Bulger inside information. FBI agents provided Bulger and Flemmi with information about wiretaps placed upon their phones by state and federal agencies, and with information on pending indictments. FBI agents knew that Bulger and Flemmi were committing murders, some of which occurred after FBI agents leaked information about FBI confidential informants to Bulger. Bulger was involved in numerous criminal activities and needed the FBI to protect him whenever a state or federal agency threatened him. The alleged purpose for this cozy arrangement was for the FBI to receive information from the Winter Hill gang on the activities of rival gangs. However, the information provided to the FBI by this relationship was relatively minor, while the benefits to the Bulger group were of immense value. By providing information to the FBI about Winter Hill’s competitors in criminal activities, the gang was able to not only murder their competition in other criminal groups but also to take over their racketeering activities. Another valuable benefit to the Winter Hill gang was that the FBI agents provided information about FBI informants, who were then tortured and murdered. This information permitted the Winter Hill gang to murder many government informants—with the full knowledge of the FBI agents and the Justice Department official in Washington—including FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Bulger was not only a living legend in Boston, but also had strong political connections in Massachusetts. His younger brother, William “Bill” Bulger, was powerful in the Massachusetts Senate, and later became president of the University of Massachusetts. While president of the University of Massachusetts, William Bulger refused to testify in December 2002 before a congressional committee investigating the FBI’s conduct associated with the Winter Hill gang and William Bulger’s brother. Referring to William Bulger, a New York Times article (April 10, 2003) stated: In December, Mr. Bulger refused to testify at a hearing of the committee [House Government Reform Committee], in Boston, pleading his Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination. In December it was revealed that Mr. Bulger had told a federal grand jury looking into misconduct by F.B.I. agents in Boston, “I had an honest loyalty to my brother. I don’t feel an obligation to help everyone to catch him.” Mr. Bulger also disclosed that he had spoken with Whitey Bulger by telephone shortly after he went into hiding and had not advised him to give himself up. Who Was Using Whom? The FBI-Bulger connection made Bulger the undisputed crime king in New England, without any significant competition, and using the FBI for protection against prosecution for the dozens of murders committed. It was not the FBI using Bulger but rather Bulger using the FBI. The FBI was Bulger’s enabler, paving the way for an already powerful murderous organized crime group to become even more powerful. The incestuous relationship between the biggest crime group in New England and the FBI started in the 1960s for Flemmi, and 1975 for Bulger. This relationship continued until the turn of the century. During this period, FBI agents socialized with Bulger and Flemmi, having dinner at each other’s homes, exchanging gifts, and in several cases, the FBI agents received cash from the crime group. FBI Blocking State Police Investigations When the Massachusetts state police sought to indict Bulger and other members of his criminal organization for murders and other crimes, FBI agents provided protection. The FBI informed Bulger of investigations, removing their names from indictments, disclosing wiretaps, and refusing to cooperate in joint task force investigations. This made possible the continuation of the murders, drug smuggling, and other racketeering activities that could have otherwise been prevented. One Agent Exposed the Links, and High Level Cover-Up FBI Special Agent Robert Fitzpatrick repeatedly told his superiors that Bulger was committing murders and other crimes and should be terminated as an FBI informant. He also advised his bosses that FBI Special Agent John Connolly was passing confidential FBI information to Bulger, and that this information assisted Bulger to avoid certain areas where telephone and other taps were in place. The decision was made at high FBI levels, including Washington, to continue this relationship with Bulger, knowing that people were being murdered and that racketeering activities were continuing to flourish. Two of the many murders perpetrated by Bulger and Flemmi involved young women, Deborah Hussey and Debra Davis. Flemmi was living with his common-law wife, Marion Hussey, starting this relationship when Deborah, her daughter, was only five years old. As Deborah grew older, Flemmi started a sexual relationship with her, in addition to what he had with her mother. When Deborah decided to end the sexual relationship, Flemmi and Bulger strangled her. Before disposing of the body, to prevent identification, they cut off Deborah’s fingers and toes and knocked out all of her teeth. While Flemmi had sexual relations with Marion Hussey and her daughter, he also had a sexual relationship with Debra Davis. She had foolishly entered a relationship with Flemmi at the age of 18, lured partly by the gifts lavished upon her. Several years later, when she announced an intention to end the relationship, Bulger and Flemmi strangled her in a house owned by Flemmi’s mother. Flemmi and Bulger feared she would reveal what she learned about the criminal activities during her relationship with Flemmi. She was buried under a railroad trestle in Quincy, Massachusetts. As the information became known about how Bulger and Flemmi had murdered their daughters, the girls’ mothers filed civil actions against Flemmi and several FBI informants and agents. On February 26, 2001, Deborah’s mother, Marion Hussey, filed a lawsuit and on March 7, 2001, Olga Davis filed hers. Protection from Other Government Offices While the FBI protected Bulger and Flemmi, protection came also from other DOJ offices—which would be ordered at the Washington level. Although it was common knowledge in the community that Flemmi and Bulger were murderers and protected by the FBI, William F. Weld, the U.S. Attorney in Boston from 1981 to 1986, did nothing to interfere. Nor did he do anything when he subsequently became governor of Massachusetts. And this protective stance continued after Weld left the governorship and became Assistant Attorney General in Washington, D.C. In 1984, while Weld was U.S. Attorney, the DEA planned to use wiretaps against Flemmi and Bulger to obtain additional evidence of their drug crimes. The DEA asked Weld if the FBI wanted to get involved in a joint operation. Weld asked the head of the FBI Boston office, James Greenleaf, if he wanted to cooperate. Greenleaf refused. The DEA then proceeded without FBI assistance, but their subsequent wiretaps were rendered useless when FBI agents tipped off Bulger and Flemmi about the location of the wiretaps and bugs. When U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller was responsible for the Boston office, he also covered up for the relationship. He later became director of the FBI to defend the United States against crime in the presidency of George H.Bush (Jr.). While Mueller was U.S. attorney in San Francisco, I made his office aware of considerable corruption that I and a group of other former federal agents had uncovered, much of it in Mueller’s immediate jurisdiction. Mueller and his office chose to cover up for the criminal activities. This entire FBI-Winter Hill gang partner-in-crime relationship was known to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover for many years, and nothing was done to halt the incestuous and criminal relationship. Hoover, the FBI, and the Justice Department became complicit in the murders made possible by FBI misconduct. In my book, History of Aviation Disasters: 1950 to 9/11, I described writing to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover—while I was a federal agent for the Federal Aviation Administration—accusing him of criminal cover-ups. A federal agent does not get away with such accusations unless they are true. When a secret federal indictment against Bugler occurred in 1994, FBI agent Connolly immediately informed Bugler, enabling him to flee. He is still on-the-run. Senator Bugler stated he was unaware of his brother’s criminal career, which no one, of course, believed. Local Media Exposure Finally Forced Justice Department Action The Hartford Courant and the Boston Globe ran a series of articles on the sordid relationship between FBI agents and the Bulger gang, while most of the national media kept the lid on the scandals. One such article was the following: As the State of Massachusetts was about to hand down indictments against Bulger, Flemmi, and other members of the Winter Hill gang, FBI Agent Connolly alerted Bugler, who then fled, along with a female companion. James Bulger was shown on the Internet web site of the Massachusetts State Police as being wanted by the State of Massachusetts and the DEA, offering one million dollars reward for information leading to the arrest of Bulger. The Internet site listed Bulger under Most Wanted, and “Wanted for 19 counts of murder.” The Internet site lists his female companion for harboring a fugitive: Catherine Elizabeth Greig (aka Helen Marshall and Carol Shapeton). Defense Argument: Murders Perpetrated with FBI Permission Defense lawyers for defendants Bulger and Flemmi argued before U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf that the charges should be dismissed because the government tacitly gave Flemmi and Bulger permission to commit the crimes they committed while they were acting as FBI informants. They also argued that the FBI knew of the crimes being committed and looked the other way. FBI Aiding and Abetting Revealed in Testimony In one of Flemmi’s affidavits, he stated that FBI agents had a practice of alerting him to avoid certain places where the FBI had placed bugs; that FBI agents told him of impending indictments, and gave him the names of government informants, who were then murdered. Those statements were supported by John Morris, former supervisor of Boston’s Organized Crime Squad, who testified that he told FBI Agent Connolly about an informant who would be testifying against Bulger in the murder of a New England Jai Alai operator, Roger Wheeler. A short time later, the informant was killed. The informant, Edward Brian Halloran, had information showing that Bulger killed Wheeler, and asked the Boston FBI office to allow him to testify and to put him in the government’s witness protection program. Despite the fact that this information could solve one or more murders, the FBI refused. Halloran’s name was given to Bulger, knowing that Holloran would be killed shortly thereafter. Another FBI Agent Exposed in the Murderous Boston Office According to testimony by a Mafia boss and a government informant, Boston FBI Special Agent H. Paul Rico was also heavily involved with criminal elements. He reportedly helped kill a gangster, and framed others for murders that they did not commit. FBI Agent Taking Cash from Murderous Crime Group Former FBI agent John Morris, testifying under a grant of immunity, admitted taking cash on several occasions from two informants, totaling $7000, and that the money came from Bulger and Flemmi. FBI Agent Connolly, who was Bulger’s handler—or the other way around—repeatedly refused to answer questions, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Thirty Years in Prison For Crime the FBI Knew He Didn’t Do A May 4, 2001, Boston Globe headline read, “Man Imprisoned 30 Years for Crime FBI Knew He Didn’t Commit:” Due to the withholding of evidence, Salvati was sent to prison in 1967. A Massachusetts father of four, Joe Salvati, was convicted of murder and served 30 years in prison—while the FBI, including Washington headquarters, knew he was innocent and knew the murder was committed by one of their paid informants. The known perjured testimony of an FBI informant led to his conviction and imprisonment. Foreign News Service Reporting FBI Corruption A June 20, 2001, Reuter’s article, titled, “FBI Agent Accused In Corruption Inquiry,” referred to an FBI agent in nearby Providence, Rhode Island, accepting expensive gifts from criminal elements. The article stated: An F.B.I. agent has been suspended over accusations that he accepted gifts from a mob associate’s former wife … the Providence Journal reported today. The newspaper said the Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed that the special agent, David DiLustro, has been suspended with pay. The gifts Mr. DiLustro received included a bath house at an exclusive beach resort … The F.B.I. is investigating Mr. DiLustro’s relationship with Gail-Ann Calenda, who bribed city officials to get property-tax reductions in 1998. Two tax officers and a lawyer were convicted in the case. Mayor Vincent Cianci and five others have been indicted on corruption charges as a result of the inquiry. Dying in Prison for Crimes They Didn’t Commit: |Courtesy of Justice Department Personnel Two of the men convicted with Salvati died in prison for a murder they did not commit and which the FBI knew they didn’t commit. Salvati remained in prison for 30 years until a rare lawyer’s persistence produced documents withheld by the FBI and Boston police. It took years for Salvati’s lawyer, Victor Garo, to obtain documents proving FBI agents and Boston police prosecuted Salvati to protect the identities of several FBI informants who would possibly be exposed if the real murderer were identified. Congressional Hearings—and Then the Usual Cover-Up A hearing was held on May 4, 2001 before the House Government Reform Committee concerning the FBI’s involvement in covering up for several of their informants who were involved in a Boston murder and how the FBI withheld information so as to convict an innocent man and father of four of murder. After listening to what occurred, Representative Christopher Shays tearfully told Joe Salvati: Your story of faith, your story of family, your story of courage and perseverance is a gift to your nation. And we cherish it. Your testimony will insure on one else has to endure the outrageous indignities and injustices you, Mr. Salvati, Marie, and your family, have suffered.” [Don’t count on this PR statement!] “Truth be dammed.” Testifying before the committee, Victor J. Garo, a lawyer, said: “It was more important to the FBI that they protected their prized informants than it was for innocent people [to be sent to prison]. The truth be dammed. It didn’t matter about the truth.” FBI Agent’s Arrogance In response to a question from a committee member whether FBI Special Agent H. Paul Rico felt any remorse for his role in the case, he defiantly shouted, “What do you want, Tears? It’ll be probably a nice movie or something.” Documents Showed FBI Director Implicated in Crimes Documents presented during the criminal trial proved that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover knew of the criminal misconduct, false testimony, murders perpetrated by protected FBI informants, sending innocent people to prison, and did nothing to stop it. Connolly’s tip to Bulger of his indictment occurred in 1994 and enabled Bulger to flee. Many people connected to the case believe that the FBI does not want to capture Bulger so as to cover up its own decades of criminal involvement. Burger was finally discovered on a tip from a neighbor in June 2011, living in Santa Monica with his companion, Catherine Greig. Long Overdue Federal Indictments Federal indictments were also finally handed down against FBI agent John Connolly, who was arrested on Christmas Eve, 1999, and charged with racketeering. The trial of John Connolly took place in an atmosphere that implied his innocence. Connolly was permitted to sit in the audience with his family rather than at the defense table. U.S. District Judge Joseph A. Tauro saw no problem in that arrangement. Sitting in the courtroom was the new FBI director, Robert Mueller, who many believe was appointed FBI director because of his capacity to cover up governmental scandals. He followed the profile of many past FBI Directors, including former FBI Director William Sessions who rose from a lowly federal district court Judge in Texas to the FBI Directorship after he cooperated with President Reagan and his Attorney-General Dick Thornburgh in the 1980’s. In politics, rewards are handed out to those that cooperate. During the 1980s AUSA, Robert Mueller in Boston kept the lid on the FBI scandal involving the criminal group headed by Bulger. He was appointed United States Attorney in Boston, insuring that information was kept from the Boston Police Department about the crimes perpetrated by the Bulger group and by FBI agents. Boston Police Department complained bitterly that both the Justice Department and the FBI interfered or prevented their investigations into known mob operations. Watching Connolly’s trial in May and June of 2002 was Massachusetts State Senator William Bugler, who was also the president of the Massachusetts senate. William Bulger was the younger brother of mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, who headed a powerful organized crime group in Boston, in which FBI Special Agent Connolly was involved. Media Publicity Forced Prosecution of FBI Agents On May 23, 2002, Assistant U.S. Attorney John Durham filed charges against Connolly, who at that time was retired from the FBI. The charges stated that Connolly “functioned as a member of a criminal enterprise;” racketeering and obstruction of justice; leaking confidential information to people in the Bulger organized crime group that resulted in the killing of three witnesses; taking bribes; active participation in sending innocent men to prison; role in murdering witnesses against the mob; covering up crimes committed by the criminal elements; and tipping off James “Whitey” Bulger, the powerful head of a Boston crime group. Jury Finds Connolly Guilty of Lesser Charges, With Federal Judge Proposing Leniency The jury found Connolly guilty of racketeering, obstructing justice, and lying to an FBI agent, and innocent on the conspiracy to murder charges. Following this verdict, senior U.S. District Judge Edward F. Harrington wrote a letter to the sentencing judge requesting leniency for Connolly. In 2002, Connolly was sentenced to ten years in prison for his conduct that resulted in FBI informants being murdered, in conduct converting the FBI offices into a racketeering enterprise, and other crimes. The sentence was less than countless numbers of men and women received for peanut quantities of drugs or no-drug conspiracies in which government agents and government informants falsely testify about drug evidence. The system protects their own! In criminal trials against the non-government criminal defendants, one of Bulger’s brothers pleaded guilty (April 15, 2003) in U.S. district court at Boston for perjury and obstruction of justice arising from lying to federal grand juries. Rico was charged with the 1965 murder of Tulsa businessman Roger Wheeler, a murder that Rico committed after retiring from the FBI and working for Wheeler as a security consultant. Rico murdered Wheeler at a Tulsa country club because Wheeler had discovered Rico had embezzled funds from Wheeler’s company, World Jai Alai. It could be assumed that the FBI’s tolerance of Rico’s criminal conduct while in the Boston office emboldened Rico to kill Wheeler, thinking he was immune from prosecution. While waiting to go to trial, Rico died in January 2004 at an Oklahoma state prison in Tulsa. His death prevented further information about FBI misconduct from being revealed during trial. Subsequent Trial Nets FBI Agent Connolly 40 Years in Prison A Miami jury convicted former FBI agent John Connolly of second-degree murder in the 1982 shooting death of World Jai-Alai president John Callahan and a judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison. Six civil lawsuits were filed, with another ten expected, from family members of people who were murdered due to Connolly’s actions. Media Blackout Despite the Grave National Implications The evidence showed a major scandal with national implications, but national media exposure was limited, and only a few local newspapers provided the public with details on this sordid FBI drama. These were the Boston Globe and Hartford Courant, running a series of articles that commenced in 1988. The rest of the nation’s media covered up for the sordid and widespread misconduct in the FBI. This is the FBI that would be counted upon to detect terrorists and other threats to national interests! A CBS “60-Minutes” broadcast in April 2001, provided an abbreviated account, showing mob boss James J. “Whitey” Bulger, as being a paid FBI informant for over 20 years and protected against investigation and prosecution while he and his gang engaged in murders, drug dealings, and other crimes. An April 6, 2001, Dateline program revealed that Robert Fitzpatrick, who was an Assistant Special Agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston Field Office in the 1980s repeatedly told his superiors that Bulger should be terminated as an FBI informant after learning of the numerous murders he committed. Fitzpatrick also said he warned top FBI officials that former FBI Agent John Connolly was leaking confidential information to Bulger. So successful was the media cover-up that I could not find a single person, including talk show hosts, who knew about the Boston FBI scandal. Many More Involved at State and Federal Levels Many more people in state and federal government positions were involved, either directly or through cover-ups, who escaped prosecution. One name that wasn’t mentioned in this scenario was former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld. Weld headed the Boston U.S. Attorney’s office during much of the time Bulger & Flemmi were engaging with the FBI in a racketeering enterprise. Nor was any mention made of U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller, who was responsible for prosecutions in the Boston FBI office during part of the time these FBI crimes were ongoing. High FBI Officials Implicated, Making Cover-Up Urgent Among the high-ranking figures that surfaced at Connolly’s trial were Robert S. Mueller, III; former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and the former president of the Massachusetts senate, William Bulger. FBI Director Mueller was an assistant U.S. attorney in Boston, in charge of the Criminal Division, and for a period of time was the acting U.S. attorney, while Connolly was involved in murderous misconduct with a criminal group headed by James Bulger. Mueller never acted to halt Connolly’s misconduct. Mueller covered up for numerous criminal activities[1] that I reported to him while he was with the FBI office in San Francisco. Diverted Congressional Hearings The publicity forced the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Government Reform to conduct hearings. But not to address the corruption within the FBI that went to Washington and included DOJ officials. The hearings were primarily on the advisability of using government informants! “An institution in dire need of reform.” An outspoken member of the committee was Congressman Bill Delahunt of Massachusetts. He said, “What happened in Boston is not just a John Connolly rogue street agent problem. What we have revealed here is an institution in dire need of reform, with no accountability, no transparency, and a total lack of controls.” Representative Delahunt spent 20-years as a local district attorney and claimed his own investigations of Whitey Bugler were undermined by FBI protection of the mobster. As far back as 1965, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was told that four innocent men had been sent to prison for life for a murder which the FBI knew was committed by one of the FBI’s informants. The murder of Edward Deegan in 1965 was committed by FBI informant Vincent Flemmi. The U.S. Attorney Boston investigated whether other FBI agents were involved. In an attempt to cover its own involvement in the murders and other crimes committed by Connolly, officials in FBI Washington headquarters sent a team to investigate some of these accusations back in 1997. FBI Agent Charles Prouty and a team from the FBI and Justice Department looked into the situation discovered by U.S. District Court Judge Mark L. Wolf. Standard Government Whitewash Within five weeks, Prouty and his team released their report, which found no wrongdoing within a five-year statute of limitations period. Further hearing by Judge Wolf unearthed the misconduct that was eventually cited in the Connolly trial. For protecting the FBI’s role in the crimes, Prouty was promoted to the head of the FBI Boston Field Office as its new Special Agent-In-Charge. While the Justice Department’s Criminal Division prosecuted Connolly, the civil law suits against him were being vigorously defended by the Justice Department’s Civil Division. The U.S. Department of Justice was willing to defend Connolly in these civil lawsuits because the FBI was also being sued. The standard of proof in a civil suit is much lower than in a criminal case. Here jurors base their findings on only a preponderance of evidence, not proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Huge Civil Judgments Resulting From FBI-DOJ Criminal Conduct Referring to the victims of the FBI corruption in Boston, an Op-Ed article in the Wall Street Journal ((August 2, 2007) by Richard Moran addressed the problem of prosecutors knowingly filing false charges against innocent people: Last week, Judge Nancy Gertner of the Federal District Court in Boston awarded more than $100 million to four men whom the F.B.I. framed for the 1965 murder of Edward Deegan, a local gangster. It was compensation for the 30 years the men spent behind bars while agents withheld evidence that would have cleared them and put the real killer—a valuable F.B.I. informant, by the name of Vincent Flemmi—in prison. Most coverage of the story described it as a bizarre exception in the history of law enforcement. Unfortunately, this kind of behavior by those whose sworn duty is to uphold the law is all too common. In state courts, where most death sentences are handed down, it occurs regularly. My recently completed study of the 124 exonerations of death row inmates in America from 1973 to 2007 indicated that 80, or about two-thirds of their so-called wrongful convictions resulted not from good-faith mistakes or errors but from intentional, willful, malicious prosecutions by criminal justice personnel. Yet too often this behavior is not singled out and identified for what it is. When a prosecutor puts a witness on the stand that he knows to be lying, or fails to turn over evidence favorable to the defense, or when a police officer manufactures or destroys evidence to further the likelihood of a conviction, then it is deceptive to term these conscious violations of the law as merely mistakes or errors. Mistakes are good-faith errors—like taking the wrong exit off the highway, or dialing the wrong telephone number. There is no malice behind them. However, when officers of the court conspire to convict a defendant of first-degree murder and send him to death row, they are doing much more than making an innocent mistake or error. They are breaking the law. Since so many wrongful convictions result from official malicious behavior, prosecutors, policemen, witnesses or even jurors and judges could themselves face jail time for breaking the law in obtaining an unlawful conviction. The term “wrongfully convicted” is technically correct, and also has the potential to be misleading. It leads to the false impression that most inmates ended up on death row because of good-faith mistakes or errors committed by an imperfect criminal justice system—not by malicious or unlawful behavior. Falsified FBI Forensic Evidence Reports Referring to forensic evidence, the article stated that “The best trained and most honest forensic scientists can only examine the evidence presented to them; they cannot be expected to determine if that evidence has been planted, switched or withheld from the defense.” The article referred to FBI laboratory technicians making positive reports of crime evidence that they falsified, sending many innocent people to prison. Another article referring to the FBI corruption in those Boston cases (New York Times, Aug. 5, 2007) described the harm suffered by the families of those men wrongly convicted. Louis Greco, Sr. died in prison. His wife, depressed, started drinking heavily and abandoned the children. A son, Louis Greco, Jr., depressed, committed suicide. Others suffered personal and financial tragedies due to the corruption in the FBI and Department of Justice. FBI Agent’s Involvement in Murder of Telex Corporation CEO Appearing on CBS’s 60-Minutes show (January 6, 2008), one of the mass killers for the Winter Hill gang, John Martorano, admitted to murdering over 18 people, and was a government witness. He admitted killing the CEO of Telex Corporation, who also owned World Jai Alai, Roger Wheeler. Martorano stated, as he had previously testified, that Boston FBI Special Agent Paul Rico provided the logistical information to carry out the murder. In another murder, Martorano stated that FBI Special Agent John Connolly advised him and Bulger that one of their associates, John Callahan, was about to expose him for murdering Wheeler. With this information Martorano then murdered Callahan. When asked on the show, “Do you think that John Connolly knew that you were gonna kill Callahan?” Martorano replied, “Sure. He said it. ‘We’re all going to go to jail the rest of our life if this guy doesn’t get killed.’”
Kevin Cullen A lingering question for the FBI’s director By Kevin Cullen Globe Columnist / July 24, 2011 Back in 1976, as we were celebrating the 200th birthday of this republic, Congress passed a law limiting the tenure of the FBI director to 10 years. This was done because, after the scandalous findings of the Church Commission, Congress realized that letting J. Edgar Hoover serve as director of the bureau from its founding in 1935 until his death in 1972 had only confirmed Lord Acton’s maxim that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Hoover was a power unto himself, and the FBI that was created very much in his image sometimes acted more like the secret police of the totalitarian regimes Hoover regularly denounced: running rogue wiretaps, harassing political dissidents, using illegal means to collect evidence. Hoover’s FBI wasn’t accountable; it was untouchable. So now, just weeks after the FBI’s worst nightmare, a gangster and FBI informant by the name of Whitey Bulger came strolling back into town, Congress is about to ignore its own wisdom and let Bob Mueller, the FBI director and former US Attorney in Boston, stay on an extra two years. President Obama says he needs Mueller to stay because there’s been so much turnover in the national security teams at the CIA and Pentagon, and that’s all well and good. Mueller has wide, bipartisan support in Congress. To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen, I know Bob Mueller and he’s no J. Edgar Hoover, though the folks at the ACLU might take exception to that. The recent FBI targeting of antiwar and labor activists in the Midwest has a disturbing echo of the days when the bureau considered Martin Luther King Jr. a sinister threat to national security. But Mueller’s a Marine veteran and tough enough to take a question or two before Congress gives the president what he wants, and Mike Albano is just the guy to ask it: What did you know about Whitey Bulger, and when did you know it? Back in the 1980s, when he was serving on the Massachusetts parole board, Albano expressed some sympathy for a group of men who had always maintained they had been framed for the 1965 gangland murder of a hoodlum named Teddy Deegan in Chelsea. The FBI had been instrumental in seeing that the men - Peter Limone, Henry Tameleo, Joe Salvati, and Louis Greco - were convicted. The FBI contended that Tameleo was the consigliere of the Mafia in Boston, and that Limone was a Mafia leader. There is no question that both men were bad actors, and Mafia players, but the evidence showed that neither had anything to do Deegan’s murder. So in 1983, after Albano indicated he might vote to release Limone, he got a visit from a pair of FBI agents named John Connolly and John Morris. They told Albano that the men convicted of Deegan’s murder were bad guys, made guys. “They told me that if I wanted to stay in public life, I shouldn’t vote to release a guy like Limone,’’ Albano said. “They intimidated me.’’ Turns out that Connolly was Whitey Bulger’s corrupt handler and Morris was Connolly’s corrupt supervisor. When they weren’t pocketing bribes from Bulger, they were helping him murder potential witnesses who were poised to expose the FBI’s sordid, Faustian deal with the rat named Whitey Bulger. Albano was messing with the FBI’s national policy of going after the Mafia and the Mafia alone. That was the justification the FBI gave for making deals with devils like Whitey Bulger and his partner in crime, Stevie Flemmi. They were supposedly giving up their pals in the Mafia. The problem with the FBI’s national policy is that it didn’t take into account that the most vicious, murderous gangsters in Boston were Whitey Bulger and Stevie Flemmi. After Albano was elected mayor of Springfield in 1995, he soon found the FBI hot on his tail, investigating his administration for corruption. The FBI took down several people in his administration, and Albano is convinced that the FBI wasn’t interested in public integrity as much as in publicly humiliating him because he dared to defy them. In 2001, the four men convicted of Teddy Deegan’s murder were exonerated. Turned out the FBI let them take the rap to protect one of their informants, a killer named Vincent “Jimmy’’ Flemmi, who just happened to be the brother of their other rat, Stevie Flemmi. Thanks to the FBI’s corruption, taxpayers got stuck with the $100 million bill for compensating the framed men, two of whom, Greco and Tameleo, died in prison. Albano was appalled that, later that same year, Mueller was appointed FBI director, because it was Mueller, first as an assistant US attorney then as the acting US attorney in Boston, who wrote letters to the parole and pardons board throughout the 1980s opposing clemency for the four men framed by FBI lies. Of course, Mueller was also in that position while Whitey Bulger was helping the FBI cart off his criminal competitors even as he buried bodies in shallow graves along the Neponset. “Before he gets that extension,’’ Mike Albano said, “somebody in the Senate or House needs to ask him why the US Attorney’s office he led let the FBI protect Whitey Bulger.’’ I called FBI headquarters in Washington and tried to do just that. The nice lady who answered suggested I talk to one of the FBI’s “public affairs specialists.’’ But my call was not returned. Four years ago, when questioned about the FBI’s corruption in Boston, Mueller told the Globe, “I think the public should recognize that what happened, happened years ago.’’ That’s true. And we still don’t know what really happened. Kevin Cullen is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at cullen@globe.com. http://archive.boston.com/news/loca...gering_question_for_the_fbis_director/?page=1
David Willman Revisiting Mueller and the anthrax case An envelope containing the anthrax-laced letter that was sent to then- Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle in 2001. (File 2001/ Reuters) By David Willman June 15, 2011 FBI DIRECTOR Robert Mueller, a Republican who was appointed 10 years ago by President George W. Bush, has been paid a supreme compliment: Bush’s Democratic successor wants to keep him on the job another two years. Before agreeing to extend his term, though, Congress and President Obama should examine Mueller’s role in overseeing one of the most consequential investigations in the annals of federal law enforcement. My research for “The Mirage Man,’’ a book that explores the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, documents that Mueller exerted far-reaching control over the FBI-led “Amerithrax’’ investigation. For five years, the bureau pursued as its prime suspect a virologist, Steven Hatfill, who at no point had handled anthrax, which is a bacterium. It was not until late in 2006 — when Mueller replaced the leader of the case — that Hatfill was dropped as a viable suspect. Two years later an Army anthrax scientist, Bruce Ivins, committed suicide as prosecutors prepared charges against him in connection with America’s worst episode of biological terrorism. The FBI’s prolonged focus on Hatfill reflects at least two factors that deserve a public accounting: Mueller’s flawed evaluation of the evidence that propelled the push, ultimately abandoned, toward the indictment of Hatfill. And, Mueller’s transforming of the FBI from a conventional law enforcement agency to one whose top priority became preventing terrorism. The latter has won the FBI director widespread praise — without a necessary airing of the consequences for the anthrax investigation and future cases. Any serious retrospective of Amerithrax must start with a realization that, as former senior FBI official Michael A. Mason told me, “The director was always the leader of the anthrax investigation, period.’’ In 2002, with pressure to solve the case still high, Mueller installed his handpicked man, Inspector Richard L. Lambert, to lead it. Hatfill had already emerged as the case’s top suspect, and the expectation at headquarters was that Lambert would promptly shore up the evidence needed to bring charges related to the five deaths caused by the mailings. A crucial part of that evidence was the work of three bloodhounds, brought from Southern California to Hatfill’s Maryland apartment and other locations of interest to the FBI. Mueller himself stood behind the promise of the dog-related evidence, notably on the evening of Jan. 9, 2003, when he and Lambert briefed both congressional targets of the anthrax letters, Senators Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont. The senators were told that the bloodhounds had “alerted’’ on Hatfill and had traced scent of both him and the anthrax letters to several ponds in a forest above Frederick, Md. The FBI’s commitment to the dog evidence served to misdirect the investigation for years — and it could have been averted, based on well-publicized murder and rape cases in which the dogs’ reliability had been discredited. The wrong turns were not limited to the bloodhounds. Agents kept Hatfill under prolonged, 24/7 surveillance, openly following his every move. Though consistent with Mueller’s reordering of bureau priorities to prevent further acts of terrorism, this left fewer agents available to scrutinize other potential leads and suspects. On Aug. 6, 2008, just days after Bruce Ivins’s suicide, officials prepared to announce that he, alone, carried out the anthrax mailings. This was Mueller’s moment to preside over the apparent resolution of one of the most important cases in US history. After all, the mailings had spurred support for the Patriot Act, the Iraq War, and, finally, a risky expansion of US biocontainment laboratories, staffed by thousands of scientists granted access to anthrax and other deadly, highly portable pathogens. Mueller chose not to attend the announcement and has at no point conceded the investigation’s costly missteps. A prosecutor’s letter formally exonerated Hatfill, who had already won a $5.82 million legal settlement from the government. Obama’s request to extend Mueller’s term gives Congress the chance to coax a necessary dialogue over the director’s decision-making. Mueller’s responses could clarify how the anthrax case was resolved — and better inform ongoing decisions over funding and securing the germ-handling labs. As the FBI joins its traditional role with the interdiction of terrorism, essential lessons also remain to be learned about the tradeoffs of committing outsize resources to uncharged suspects whose culpability, by definition, remains unclear. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Willman’s book, “The Mirage Man,’’ was just published. © Copyright 2011 Globe Newspaper Company. http://archive.boston.com/bostonglo...6/15/revisiting_mueller_and_the_anthrax_case/
Coyote dances with a star A Cheyenne Legend Because the Great Mystery Power had given Coyote much of his medicine, Coyote himself grew very powerful and very conceited. There was nothing, he believe that he couldn't do. He even thought he was more powerful than the Great Mystery, for Coyote was sometimes wise but also a fool. One day long ago, it came into his mind to dance with a star. "I really feel like doing this," he said. He saw a bright star coming up from behind a mountain, and called out: "Hoh, you star, wait and come down! I want to dance with you." The star descended until Coyote could get hold of him, and then soared up into the sky, with Coyote hanging on for dear life. Round and round the sky went the star. Coyote became very tired, and the arm that was holding onto the star grew numb, as if it were coming out of its socket. "Star," he said, "I believe I've done enough dancing for now. I'll let go and be getting back home." "No, wait; we're too high up" said the star. "Wait until I come lower over the mountain where I picked you up." Coyote looked down at the earth. He thought it seemed quite near. "I'm tired, star; I think I'll leave now; we're low enough," he said, and let go. Coyote had made a bad mistake. He dropped down, down, down. He fell for a full ten winters. He plopped through the earth clouds at last and when he finally hit ground, he was flattened like a tanned stretched deerskin. So he died right there. Now, the Great Mystery Power had amused himself by giving Coyote several lives. It took Coyote quite a few winters, however, to pull himself up again and into his old shape. He had grown quite a bit older in all that time, but he had not grown less foolish. he boasted: "Who besides me could dance with stars, and fall out of the sky for ten long winters, and be flattened out like a deer hide, and live to tell the tale? I am Coyote. I am powerful. I can do anything. Coyote was sitting in front of his lodge one night, when from behind the mountain here rose a strange kind of star, a very fast one, trailing a long, shining tail. Coyote said to himself: "Look at that fast star, what fun to dance with him!" He called out: "Ho, strange star with the long tail! Wait for me; come down; let's dance!" The strange, fast star shot down, and Coyote grabbed hold. The star whirled off into the vastness of the universe. Again Coyote had made a bad mistake. Looking up from his lodge into the sky, he had no idea of that star's real speed. It was the fastest thing in the universe. It whirled Coyote around so swiftly that first one and then the other of his legs dropped off. Bit by bit, small pieces of Coyote were torn off in this mad race through the skies, until at last only Coyote's right hand was holding onto that fast star. Coyote fell back down to earth in little pieces, a bit here and a bit there. But soon the pieces started looking for each other, slowly coming together, forming up into Coyote again. It took a long time--several winters. At last Coyote was whole again except for his right hand, which was still whirling around in space with the star. Coyote called out: "Great Mystery! I was wrong. I'm not as powerful as you. I'm not as powerful as I thought. Have pity on me!" Then the Great Mystery Power spoke: "Friend Coyote. I have given your four lives. Two you have already wasted foolishly. Better watch out!" "Have pity on me," wailed Coyote. "Give me back my right hand." "That's up to the star with the long tail, my friend. You must have patience. Wait until the star appears to you, rising from behind the mountain again. then maybe he will shake your hand off." "How often does this star come over the mountain?" "Once in a hundred lifetimes," said the Great Mystery.
Do I detect a nervous anticipation of a release of dirt on Donald Trump by Mueller and his team of appointed Justice Department officials?
you dare question the patron saint of "I told you so"? Why, the sheer number of posts made by this entity, which are conspiracies and other nutbar "facts", out weighs the grand total of stars in the entire universe...
About Mr. Wohl - His mother has the phone number associated with the company that supposedly offered cash to women to say crap about Mueller. Wait until Mueller is indicted, Maris, before you crow.
The number of stars in the Universe is on the order of tens of orders of magnitude. Do wild claims in here outweigh that? Hmm, yes, I guess it does. Please note how they get wilder and wilder as we approach Nov. 6. If I didn't know better, I might suspect desperation.
Report: Mueller Team Knew that Clinton, DNC Invented Russian Collusion Narrative by Elizabeth VaughnPosted: November 1, 2020 Fight tech tyranny. Join Dan on Parler @dbongino. They all knew. Even the Special Counsel, who kept this farce going for two years, knew. A new report by investigative journalists John Solomon and Lee Smith indicates that Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel team obtained evidence that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC conjured up the Russian collusion story to discredit candidate Donald Trump in May 2016. It should come as no surprise that none of their findings were included in the final Mueller report. A “person with direct knowledge of the Mueller probe” spoke to Solomon and Smith on the condition of anonymity.” This individual informed them, “We did have evidence to show that early collusion allegations against Trump and Manafort were created or propagated by people who either worked for the DNC or the Clinton campaign, including some efforts that went beyond the Steele dossier.” Solomon and Smith asked their source why none of this information had been included in the Mueller report. The answer? “Our job was to report on and prosecute crimes, not write an essay on how political opposition research was conducted by the two parties.” The first document Solomon and Smith provide is an email chain between “super-lobbyist” Tony Podesta and Rick Gates. Podesta is the brother of Clinton confidante John Podesta. Gates was the manager of Paul Manafort’s lobbying firm. He ultimately struck a plea deal with the Mueller team. Gates emailed Podesta on May 17, 2016 about a meeting between the American Polish Advisory Council and the DNC. “One of the subjects was a smear campaign against Paul Manafort, which will be launched in a couple of days. The head of the ethnic outreach is of Ukrainian descent and has connections in Ukraine.” The head of ethnic outreach turns out to be Alexandra Chalupa, a pro-Western Ukrainian lawyer and activist. Chalupa had worked as a consultant for the DNC and for Democratic politicians including several Clinton campaign officials. She hated Manafort for his role in the re-election of pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2010 and his subsequent work for the pro-Russian party in Ukraine. She was also “in the tank” for Hillary Clinton. In early 2016, Manafort reached out to Trump and soon became the chairman of his campaign. In Dan’s book, “Spygate,” he writes that “due to Manafort’s connections to Russian billionaires and Ukrainian politicians close to Putin, his hiring by Trump fueled whispered speculation that Russian forces controlled the campaign.” Dan added that “allegations of Trump-Russia collusion started to gain steam” once Manafort joined the team and that much of this narrative was driven by Alexandra Chalupa. Gates, referring to Chalupa, informs Podesta that, “She was able to produce documents linking Manafort to Moscow during his time as adviser to Victor Yanukowych (cq), ousted former Ukrainian president. They will try to link Donald Trump to Putin through Manafort’s engagement and money trail of over [a] billion dollars.” Podesta responds six days later. He writes, “Think I slowed this down.” Solomon and Smith reached out to Gates who confirmed the authenticity of the emails. Gates told them he had emailed Tony Podesta in spring 2016 to ask for his “help and support about a political opposition project that was being orchestrated by the DNC against Paul Manafort to falsely tie him to Russia as a means of suggesting Trump was tied to Russia. I told the Special Counsel I reached out to Tony at Paul’s request to see if he could help.” Gates added, “Tony came back to me and identified the DNC operative who was running the operation as Alexandra Chalupa, the head of their ethnic coalitions. Tony also indicated he believed he had been successful in slowing down the opposition research against Paul.” Solomon and Smith also contacted Tony Podesta who responded by email. Podesta confirmed that the email chain “looks authentic.” However, he categorically denied he “had intervened with the DNC to slow down any anti-Trump research or even knew Chalupa’s name.” He wrote, “Never did anything. Didn’t tell him Chalupa was at DNC. Didn’t know about Chalupa…Don’t remember what it refers to but clearly not Chalupa and Manafort.” The Mueller team also obtained “a private investigator’s report commissioned by Manafort’s office entitled “Unmasking the Left’s Red Scare Anti-Trump Operatives.” The 2017 report purportedly traced Chalupa’s activities in Ukraine and the United States during the 2016 election.” The report said: The DNC predictably is trying to distance itself from Chalupa, noting that it paid her to do outreach for its political department, not for her research. But there is no question that she was paid by the DNC throughout the election cycle and that the research she provided informed and shaped Clinton campaign strategy. Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik was “a trusted, longtime source in Kiev” who worked with the Obama State Department. The Mueller team obtained an August 22, 2016 email from Kilimnik to Eric Schultz, a State Department official, informing him of the Clinton/DNC plan to “tie Trump to Russia through Manafort.” On August 19, 2016, Manafort had been forced to resign from the Trump campaign following a series of New York Times connecting him to Russian oligarchs. Kilimnik wrote: “First, it is definitely HRC and her HQ who launched this sh**storm trying to use construction of “Putin = very bad, Putin = Manafort, Manafort = Trump, therefore Trump = Putin = very bad.” The Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, released documents last month which said the CIA had learned of the Clinton/DNC plan in July 2016. Then-CIA Director John Brennan immediately briefed President Obama at that time. We learned from the December 2019 Intelligence Community Inspector General’s report that the FBI, following a meeting with Christopher Steele’s sub-source in January 2017, were fairly certain that the dossier was made up. After two additional meetings in March and May 2017, the FBI knew with certainty that it had been completely fabricated. (It’s very likely the FBI knew long before this.) One would assume the FBI would have shared this information with Robert Mueller when they turned over their counter-intelligence investigation to the Special Counsel in May 2017. Now, we’re hearing that the Mueller team investigators knew the dossier was fake and that Clinton and the DNC had been responsible for it. Hillary Clinton and her co-conspirators interfered with a U.S. election. They must be held responsible for it. The prosecutors on the Mueller team must explain why they continued to investigate President Trump when they knew with certainty he’d done nothing wrong. Alexandra Chalupa needs to be questioned. Under oath. I’m not a lawyer, but this was not your garden variety political opposition research. Opposition research is investigating a candidate’s past to find information which can be exploited for political purposes. Clinton and the DNC didn’t dig up truthful information. They created false information. Nor was it “conducted by the two parties.” This was a concerted effort to take the focus off of the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s improper use of a private email server during her tenure as the Secretary of State. After the FBI had subpoenaed Clinton’s emails, her team deleted 33,000 messages they claimed were “personal.” Next, they tried to destroy the data with Bleach Bit. Finally, they smashed her devices with hammers. Totally normal behavior for an innocent person, right? This is criminal.
