Clinton 2016 Campaign Lawyer Tech Exec In Joint Venture To Smear Trump Durham Alleges

The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a rally on Friday, killing at least 48 people and wounding dozens more. At the heart of the case is a September 18, 2016 text message sent by Sussmann to then-FBI Director General James Baker, which was reproduced in Monday’s statement. “Jim – is Michael Sussmann. “I have something time-sensitive (and sensitive) that I need to discuss,” the lawyer wrote. “Are you available for a short meeting tomorrow?” I come alone – not on behalf of a client or company – I want to help the Office. Thanks.” In fact, prosecutors say, Sussmann – then a cybersecurity lawyer at the powerful Democratic law firm Perkins Coie – had deceived Baker and was acting on behalf of the Clinton campaign when the two met the next day. During that meeting, Sussmann allegedly provided Baker with information suggesting that Trump’s servers were communicating with servers at Moscow-based Alfa-Bank. This claim was reinforced by the Clinton campaign, suggesting that Trump collaborated with the Kremlin. Hillary Clinton’s campaign worked actively to collect and disperse dirt on Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. AFP via Getty Images According to Monday’s testimony, preparations for Sussmann’s meeting with Baker began in “late July and early August” when Tech Executive-1, who has since been identified as Rodney Joffe, began telling Virginia-based Neustar officials – where a senior vice president was based – to “extract and gather Internet data to support a” conclusion “or” narrative “linking Trump to Russia.” Joffe, who was not named in the affidavit, was quoted as saying that the purpose of the effort was to thank these “VIPs”, whom Durham says referred to Sussmann, his Perkins Coie colleague Marc Elias – the general counsel. of the Clinton campaign – and the campaign itself. John Durham is calling on Hillary Clinton and her lawyer Michael Sasman to campaign for information against former President Donald Trump. Perkins Coi Prosecutors also allege that Joffe ordered an executive from two other companies to dive deep into Trump, saying he was “working with one person at a company in Washington, DC, with close ties to the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic Party. . » The document adds that Joffe even emailed the executive the home addresses, email addresses, IP addresses and other personal information of “various Trump associates”, including spouses and other family members. According to Durham, the CEO was “very uncomfortable” with Joffe’s request, but complied because “he was a strong figure”. The dive into Trump was codenamed “Crimson Rhino”. Eventually, prosecutors say, Joffe and his associates “took advantage” of Internet traffic linked to a healthcare provider to gather information from the Trump Tower and the Trump apartment building in Central Park West. Among the allegations Sussmann made was that Trump and his associates were using a type of Russian-made cell phone near the White House and elsewhere. At the same time, Sussman and Perkins Coie allegedly linked Joffe to Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that hired former MI-6 agent Christopher Steele to write his now-infamous explosives dossier, debunking allegations about Trump’s alleged relations with Russia. The most notorious of these allegations was that Moscow security services were in possession of a Trump cassette in a hotel room in Moscow with prostitutes allegedly urinating on a bed where the Obama had previously stayed. The Clinton campaign suggests that Donald Trump collaborated with the Kremlin. AFP via Getty Images Clinton’s campaign has remained silent about her commitment to Fusion GPS – so silent that last week, the Federal Election Commission fined the campaign $ 8,000 and $ 105,000, respectively, and the Democratic National Committee, respectively, for mislabeling payments to the company launched through Perkins Coie as “legal advice and services” rather than an opposition inquiry. According to the testimony, Sussmann even met with Steele himself (identified as “UK Person-1”) and Fusion GPS employees at Perkins Coie’s offices in the summer of 2016. Prosecutors say that while Sussmann told Congress in 2017 that he only intended to “make Steele a veterinarian”, the once British spy testified in a UK lawsuit that Sussmann shared the Alfa-Bank allegation with him and Fusion GPS ordered Steele to “investigate and generate intelligence reports” for Alfa-Bank. Michael Sussmann served as Clinton campaign advocate.CSPAN Allegations of links between the Trump administration and the Alfa-Bank server were also reported by Steele to State Department officials, and Fusion GPS forwarded them to at least one Justice Department official. Following the imports, Durham claims that Sussmann and Fusion GPS employees bought Alfa-Bank’s claims in the mainstream media. Allegations of server traffic between Trump Tower and Alfa-Bank have been the subject of much controversy in the run-up to Election Day 2016. Franklin Foer’s most notable story, published by Slate in October, was a Trump Does the server communicate with Russia? ” Finally, Alfa-Bank’s claims were allegedly collected by Joffe and Sussmann in a “white paper” that Sussmann handed to Baker when the two met. According to Sussmann’s indictment, the lawyer invoiced Clinton for the time the document was written. The same day that Slate’s story about Trump and Alfa-Bank was published, the New York Times reported that the FBI had examined Sussmann’s allegations and concluded that “there could be a harmless explanation, such as an email. marketing or junk content, for computer contacts. ” According to the indictment, Sussmann followed Alfa-Bank’s corner even after Clinton lost to Trump in the 2016 election. In February 2017, she allegedly provided an “updated set of allegations” about the Russian bank and the its connection to the Trump campaign in another US government agency that has since been identified as the CIA. Sussmann was indicted in September 2021 and pleaded not guilty to the charges. Durham’s proposal calls for the acceptance of documents, including notes from conversations two other FBI officials had with Baker about his September 19, 2016 meeting with Sussmann. emails concerning Sussmann, Joffe, Elias, Clinton campaign executives and Fusion GPS employees. and a statement by Sussmann before the House Intelligence Committee in December 2017. In that testimony, Sussmann was asked if he was acting “of his own free will” when he contacted Baker and the CIA about Alfa-Bank’s allegations. He replied: “No.” “So your client led you to these conversations?” was asked. John Durham has accused Hillary Clinton of campaigning for directing misinformation about Donald Trump and Russia in the 2016 presidential election. Rick Wilking-Pool / Getty Images “Yes,” he replied, before trying to back off a few moments later. “[W]”When you say my client directed me, we had a discussion, as lawyers do with their clients, about clients’ needs and goals and the best course for a client,” he said. “And so it may have been a decision we made together. I mean, I do not want to imply that I was somehow directed to do something against my best judgment or that we were in some kind of conflict. ” In a deposition storm on Monday, Sussmann’s legal team argued that much of the evidence Durham was seeking was either inadmissible as rumors or irrelevant to the accusation against their client. “The Attorney General has not charged the government with a substantial plan to defraud, nor has it charged him with conspiracy to defraud the government,” a statement said. “The way in which [internet] collected data, the objective validity and reliability of this data and / or the conclusions drawn from the data and the information that Christopher Steele provided separately to the FBI have nothing to do with the sole crime that the Attorney General chose to indict: whether “Mr. Sachman falsely stated that he was not acting on behalf of a client when he met with Mr. Baker.” John Durham claims that Sussmann and Fusion GPS employees bought Alfa-Bank’s claims in the mainstream media. Sussmann’s lawyers further accused Durham of trying to “promote a baseless allegation that the Clinton Campaign conspired with others to deceive the federal government into investigating relations between President Trump and Russia.” “But there was no such conspiracy. the Special Prosecutor has not charged such a crime. “The Special Prosecutor should not be allowed to turn Mr Sussmann’s trial into a narrow circle of false statements in a circus full of side performances that will only fuel partisan fervor.” In a separate testimony, Sussmann’s lawyers argued that the judge in the case should have forced Durham to offer Joffe immunity from prosecution or dismiss the case. “While Mr Joffe is prepared to testify in Mr Sussmann’s defense – and to provide critical acquittal on Mr Sussmann’s behalf, including that Mr Joffe’s work was not linked to the Clinton campaign – the Attorney General “Mr Sussmann was unable to call Mr Joffe as an acquittal witness at the trial,” the document read. “It is simply unthinkable that …