The first talking point that the Left always runs to when trying to justify the Special Counsel is that there has been 34 people indicted. But what have those indictments had to do with Donald J. Trump?
None of the indictments in the Mueller case have had anything to do with Trump Russian collusion. It's all been a smoke screen to make us think there is something there when there really isn't.
Before the official Mueller report is released to the public, let’s take a look at all the, indictments that are Mueller investigation related:
1. General Michael Flynn - [Update from Part 3] Indicted for lying to FBI, but he didn’t lie. Despite what the “fact checking” sites keep trying to say, because they want to claim that President Trump is lying…Sentencing has been delayed several times.
- Flynn did not lie and only plead guilty to lying. - in part three we heard from John Dowd, who reiterated the fact that Flynn didn't lie. Comey also testified that the FBI agents that interviewed Flynn didn't think that he lied. So why did he plead guilty? Will we ever get to know? Why did he let Mueller go ahead and tell everyone that he did indeed lie?
- Why haven't we heard from Agent Stzok's partner, FBI Special Agent Joseph Pientka that was also interviewing Flynn at the time he allegedly lied?
- Svetlana Lokhova - A Russian woman who was accused of being a Russian spy and scrutinized for being at the same dinner as Lt. Gen. Flynn in 2014 when he was Defense Intelligence Agency director, has completely denied being a Russian spy. She also isn't named in Gen. Flynn's indictment.
As Reported April 5, 2019 By Fox News:
"I'm not a Russian spy and I have never worked for the Russian government," the 38-year old historian and academic said, in an interview first broadcast on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” "I believe that General Flynn was targeted and I was used to do it."
Lokhova said the U.K. academic group behind the dinner included American Stefan Halper. The professor, who did not return emails from Fox News seeking comment, is widely reported to be a confidential source in the FBI's original probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Halper also reached out to Trump campaign aides including Carter Page, George Papadopoulos and Sam Clovis.
Halper is also at the center of a whistleblower complaint filed last summer that alleges government contractor abuses, as well as excessive payments with taxpayer dollars.
FBI agents concluded Lt Gen Flynn didn't lie, but then Mueller came along
The unredacted portion of the report, written by Republicans on the panel, details testimony from former FBI Director James Comey and his then-deputy, Andrew McCabe. The report says McCabe, in particular, testified that the two agents who interviewed Flynn “didn’t think he was lying."
As Reported Dec. 2, 2018 By Newsmax:
...Comey told lawmakers that the FBI agents who interviewed Flynn did not believe that Flynn had lied to them, or that any inaccuracies in his answers were intentional.
As Reported Feb. 12, 2019 By The Washington Examiner and Washington Post:
FBI did not think Flynn had done anything wrong in the calls. On Jan. 23, the Washington Post reported that the FBI had reviewed the Flynn-Kislyak calls and "has not found any evidence of wrongdoing or illicit ties to the Russian government." (The calls had been intercepted by U.S. intelligence because the U.S. monitored the Russian ambassador's communications — something which Flynn, a former chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, surely knew.)
As Reported Dec. 12, 2018 By Associated Press:
“This is a very serious offense. A high-ranking senior official of the government making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation while on the physical premises of the White House,” Sullivan said.
He later softened his tone, apologizing for suggesting that Flynn had worked as a foreign agent, “undermining everything this flag over here stands for” while in the White House when that other work had actually already ended. He also backpedaled on an earlier question on whether Flynn’s transgressions amounted to treason, saying he didn’t mean to suggest they did.
As Reported March 13, 2019 By Fox News:
Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is seeking another delay in his sentencing for lying to the FBI, saying that he potentially has more cooperation to offer as he looks to reduce his sentence.
In a court filing on Tuesday, Flynn’s lawyers requested a 90-day delay as “there may be additional cooperation for the defendant to provide pursuant to the plea agreement in this matter.”
Flynn has been cooperating with prosecutors in an ongoing case against two former business associates accused of illegally lobbying for Turkey. That case is scheduled for trial in July.
Mueller's office said in the filing that it takes no position on the request for a continuance and says that "[Flynn's] cooperation is otherwise complete," meaning that his cooperation in the Mueller investigation is likely complete.
THE CURIOUS CASE OF MICHAEL FLYNN: TIMELINE OF TWISTS AND TURNS IN EX-OFFICIAL'S PROSECUTION
As Reported Dec. 18, 2018 By Bloomberg:
Michael Flynn Is Owed an Apology.
One year after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, there is still no evidence that he is a traitor.
Flynn, a retired three-star general, was forced to resign after serving less than a month as Trump’s national security adviser. He was said to have colluded with Russians during the presidential transition. For this he was defamed as a Russian agent and mocked as a bumbling Benedict Arnold. Former officials of Barack Obama’s administration hinted that Flynn had been compromised.
As it turns out, none of this was true!
Manafort’s case has nothing to do with the 2016 campaign or Trump. It’s over dealings that happened in the early 2010s-2014. He was found guilty of 8 counts out of 18, in financial crimes.
[Indictment text] [2nd indictment text]
Here's the breakdown of the counts:
- Count 1: Tax Fraud — Subscribing to false US individual income tax returns in 2010 (3 year maximum sentence)
- Count 2: Tax Fraud — Subscribing to false US individual income tax returns in 2011 (3 year max sentence)
- Count 3: Tax Fraud - Subscribing to false US individual income tax returns in 2012 (3 year maximum sentence)
- Count 4: Tax Fraud — Subscribing to false US individual income tax returns in 2013 (3 year maximum sentence)
- Count 5: Tax Fraud — Subscribing to false US individual income tax returns in 2014 (3 year maximum sentence)
- Count 6: Hiding Foreign Bank Accounts — Failure to File Reports of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts in 2012 (5 year maximum sentence)
- Count 7: Bank Fraud — $3.4 million Citizens Bank loan (30 year maximum sentence)
- Count 8: Bank Fraud — $1 million Bank of California loan (30 year maximum sentence)
- A federal judge has sentenced former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to 47 months in prison on tax and bank-fraud charges for hiding millions in income derived from advising Ukraine lawmakers.
- A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday sentenced former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to an additional 43 months in prison and ordered him to pay $6 million in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
As Reported August 23, 2018 By DML News:
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team was one holdout juror away from winning a conviction against Paul Manafort on all 18 counts of bank and tax fraud, juror Paula Duncan told Fox News in an exclusive interview Wednesday.
“It was one person who kept the verdict from being guilty on all 18 counts,” Duncan, 52, said. She added that Mueller’s team of prosecutors often seemed bored, apparently catnapping during parts of the trial.
- The Podesta Group Is also named as Company ‘B’ in Manafort’s Indictment. Most of his crimes had already been dismissed by the DOJ as not worth prosecuting, and then a decade later are picked up by the Special Counsel in an attempt to flip him against Donald J. Trump.
- Nothing, that Manafort was indicted for or convicted of has anything to do with Donald J. Trump or collusion with Russians to help him win the 2016 Presidential Election. One could then assume that no evidence of that was found.
- New York Charges Paul Manafort with 16 Felonies After Federal Sentencing
As Reported March 13, 2019 By Breitbart:
An indictment unsealed in Manhattan accuses the 69-year-old Manafort of conducting residential mortgage fraud that netted millions of dollars, along with conspiracy and falsifying business records.
As Reported By March 19, 2019 The Hill:
For more than a year, leading New York state prosecutors have openly pledged to get Manafort on some undefined crime to prevent Trump from releasing him from jail on a presidential pardon. They promised to find crimes that could be alleged in the state system, which would not at all be impacted by a presidential pardon. To do that, they only had to strip all citizens of certain rights. Former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman pushed the legislature to rescind a core protection against double jeopardy to allow him to charge Manafort on the same criminal conduct that he would later be sentenced for in federal court.
New York is one of those states with its own protections against such abusive and duplicative charges. When Schneiderman was forced out of office for alleged sexual assault, his cause was picked up by his successor, Barbara Underwood, who has deemed the constitutional protection a loophole that would “thwart the cause of justice rather than advance it.” You heard that right, a constitutional protection would “thwart justice” because it could be used by an unpopular individual such as Manafort.
These calls were then picked up by Vance and James, who promised to get Manafort at any cost. James actually campaigned for and was elected to the attorney general post in part on her effort to reduce constitutional protections for everyone in order to get one man….
When I read the complaint against Manafort, I was struck not only by the overlap but the overkill. I had never seen the Manhattan district attorney bring such a case, but I could be mistaken. After all, Vance proclaimed he had a sacred duty to protect the “integrity of our residential mortgage market.” That was news in itself. The core allegation was that Manafort lied about a condo being used as a home by his family, as opposed to a rental property. If that type of misrepresentation were truly prosecuted with vigor, New York would be a ghost town. In the land of rent controlled apartments, fraudulent practices are the norm. Indeed, Aaron Carr of the Housing Rights Initiative, a nonprofit housing watchdog group, declared recently that in New York “rent fraud is like finding rain in a rainstorm.”
Given the absence of past serious criminal prosecutions, I reached out to the office of Vance with a simple request: Could he show me other cases like this where he prosecuted people like Manafort to uphold the integrity of the residential mortgage market? After repeated attempts, the office declined to respond.
INCREDIBLE!!!
Is this a case of vengeance against Manafort, because he’s connected to Donald J. Trump? Sure, the guy may have did slimy things, but going after him and not going after everyone else that commits the same crimes is unjust.
As Reported April 3, 2019 By The Hill:
Paul Manafort wants a federal judge to consider reversing a prior ruling that he deliberately lied to investigators, arguing a sealed filing from special counsel Robert Mueller shows the former Trump campaign chairman did not intentionally make false statements.
Conclusion: Manafort appears to be a dirtbag, but his crimes don’t prove Trump Russia collusion.
3. Michael Cohen - Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer pleaded guilty in November 2018 to tax fraud and lying to Congress about a proposed real-estate deal in Moscow. The deal never made it to fruition and even if his testimony were true, it was perfectly legal for Donald J. Trump to negotiate a real-estate deal while campaigning. [DOJ Press Release]
Cohen also pleaded guilty in August 2018 to charges brought by the Southern District of New York related to making hush money payments to two women who claimed to have had sex with Trump. Cohen was sentenced in December 2018 to three years in prison. None of the charges connected to Cohen have anything to do with Russian Collusion. [Indictment Text] [Plea Agreement]
- The President may be implicated and accused of possible campaign finance violations, in the Southern District of New York, because of the “hush money” paid to Stormey Daniels. However he has a solid defense, and it is not illegal for the President to pay someone out of his own pocket to keep a story quiet. The payment would have been made whether there was an election or not in order to keep the secret from his wife and out of the public.
- It’s also not a crime for a candidate to donate as much money as he/she wants to his/her own campaign. (But you know, extortion is a crime; threatening to tell on someone if they don't pay you money.)
- Cohen is a convicted liar and his word is as good as mud. (Cohen testified openly in front of Congress.) But nothing in his testimony to Congress suggests or proves collusion with Russians.
READ: The unsealed documents connected to Cohen raid
As Reported by August 22, 2019 The Hill:
The sweetener for the prosecutors, of course, was getting Cohen to plead guilty to campaign violations that were not campaign violations. Money paid to people who come out of the woodwork and shake down people under threat of revealing bad sexual stories are not legitimate campaign expenditures. They are personal expenditures. That is true for both candidates we like and candidates we do not. Just imagine if candidates used campaign funds instead of their own money to pay folks like Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about affairs. They would get indicted for misuse of campaign funds for personal purposes and for tax evasion.
There appear to be two payments involved in this unusual agreement. Cohen pleaded guilty to a campaign violation for having “coordinated” the American Media payment to Karen McDougal for her story, not for actually making the payment. He is pleading guilty over a corporate contribution he did not make. Think about this for a minute. Suppose ABC paid Stormy Daniels for her story in coordination with Michael Avenatti or maybe even the law firm of the Democratic National Committee on the eve of the election.
By this reasoning, if the purpose of this money paid, just before the election, would be to hurt Trump and help Clinton win, this payment would be a corporate political contribution. If using it not to get Trump would be a corporate contribution, then using it to get Trump also has to be a corporate contribution. That is why neither are corporate contributions and this is a bogus approach to federal election law. Note that none of the donors in the 2012 John Edwards case faced any legal issues and the Federal Election Commission ruled their payments were not campaign contributions that had to be reported, both facts that prosecutors tried to suppress at trial.
- Lanny Davis, Cohen’s lawyer lied about Michael Cohen being willing to testify that then Candidate Trump knew about the infamous “Trump Tower/Russian Lawyer Meeting” before it happened. (You will soon learn that meeting was a setup anyway, all the proof and information about that is finally public.) Davis has never been rock solid where his integrity is in play. There are a few things to know about Lanny Davis.
- 1 He defended Bill Clinton in his impeachment Trial
- 2 He has been a “fixer’ for both Bill and Hillary
- 3 He is registered as a foreign agent for a Ukrainian oligarch with close ties to Putin
- 4 He and Hillary screwed over Honduras. When asked who started the coup in Honduras, an unidentified intelligence agent says just to find out who is paying Lanny Davis.
As usual, CNN was reporting fake news and curiously Lanny Davis himself confirmed to being one of the anonymous sources at the time it was published.
Lanny Davis confirmed to The New York Post that he was one of the anonymous sources and lied when he told them that CNN’s report was accurate.
Now Lanny Davis is walking back his claims and went on the record admitting he lied to the media.
Imagine our shock.
Watch Rosenstein’s full announcement of the indictment of 13 Russians
4. Internet Research Agency - Conspiracy to defraud the U.S., conspiracy to commit wire/ bank fraud.
Thirteen Russian nationals and three entities, including the Internet Research Agency, were indicted in February 2018 with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. for interfering with the election. Three were charged with conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud. Five were charged with aggravated identity theft.
Thirteen Russians were indicted for interfering with social media, email phishing and troll farms. There is not one mention in the official court docket that a U.S. person knowingly helped any Russians. Or that the vote totals were affected by this interference.
- It was widely reported that this group of Russians helped the Trump Campaign, win the 2016 election, however they were not exclusively focused on Campaign Trump. They had advertisements, groups and events that were pro-Trump, pro-Jill Stein, pro-Sanders, pro-Cruz and others. They bought about $100K of adds and half were purchased after the election. The mission was to sew discord into the American public, and cause civil unrest. Wouldn’t you say that they succeeded in that task?
Released February 16, 2018 By Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs
The Department of Justice announced that a grand jury in the District of Columbia today returned an indictment presented by the Special Counsel’s Office. The indictment charges thirteen Russian nationals and three Russian companies for committing federal crimes while seeking to interfere in the United States political system, including the 2016 Presidential election. The defendants allegedly conducted what they called “information warfare against the United States,” with the stated goal of “spread[ing] distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general.”
“This indictment serves as a reminder that people are not always who they appear to be on the Internet,” said Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein. “The indictment alleges that the Russian conspirators want to promote discord in the United States and undermine public confidence in democracy.
To hide the Russian origin of their activities, the defendants allegedly purchased space on computer servers located within the United States in order to set up a virtual private network. The defendants allegedly used that infrastructure to establish hundreds of accounts on social media networks such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, making it appear that the accounts were controlled by persons within the United States. They used stolen or fictitious American identities, fraudulent bank accounts, and false identification documents. The defendants posed as politically and socially active Americans, advocating for and against particular political candidates. They established social media pages and groups to communicate with unwitting Americans. They also purchased political advertisements on social media.
The Russians also recruited and paid real Americans to engage in political activities, promote political campaigns, and stage political rallies. The defendants and their co-conspirators pretended to be grassroots activists. According to the indictment, the Americans did not know that they were communicating with Russians.
After the election, the defendants allegedly staged rallies to support the President-elect while simultaneously staging rallies to protest his election. For example, the defendants organized one rally to support the President-elect and another rally to oppose him—both in New York, on the same day.
The indictment includes eight criminal counts. Count One alleges a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States, by all of the defendants. The defendants allegedly conspired to defraud the United States by impairing the lawful functions of the Federal Election Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Department of State in administering federal requirements for disclosure of foreign involvement in certain domestic activities.
Count Two charges conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud by Internet Research Agency and two individual defendants.
Counts Three through Eight charge aggravated identity theft by Internet Research Agency and four individuals.
There is no allegation in the indictment that any American was a knowing participant in the alleged unlawful activity. There is no allegation in the indictment that the charged conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election.
Everyone charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court. At trial, prosecutors must introduce credible evidence that is sufficient to prove each defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, to the unanimous satisfaction of a jury of twelve citizens.
The Special Counsel's investigation is ongoing. There will be no comments from the Special Counsel at this time.
[Indictment Text]
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1035562/download
As Reported Sept. 6, 2017 By The New York Times:
Providing new evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election, Facebook disclosed on Wednesday that it had identified more than $100,000 worth of divisive ads on hot-button issues purchased by a shadowy Russian company linked to the Kremlin.
Most of the 3,000 ads did not refer to particular candidates but instead focused on divisive social issues such as race, gay rights, gun control and immigration, according to a post on Facebook by Alex Stamos, the company’s chief security officer. The ads, which ran between June 2015 and May 2017, were linked to some 470 fake accounts and pages the company said it had shut down.
Mr. Stamos wrote that while some of the ads specifically mentioned the two candidates, most focused instead on issues that were polarizing the electorate: “divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum — touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights.”
(Articles like that one I chew the meat and spit out the fat.)
THE CONCLUSION, NO EVIDENCE OF AMERICANS KNOWINGLY COLLUDING WITH RUSSIANS TO TRY AND WIN THE 2016 ELECTION.
The alleged lies that were told to Congress had to do with emails and text messages between Stone and Person 1.
From the indictment:
STONE was an official on the U.S. presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump (“Trump Campaign”) until in or around August 2015, and maintained regular contact with and publicly supported the Trump Campaign through the 2016 election.
During the summer of 2016, STONE spoke to senior Trump Campaign officials about Organization 1 and information it might have had that would be damaging to the Clinton Campaign. STONE was contacted by senior Trump Campaign officials to inquire about future releases by Organization 1.
The indictment never alleges any money changing hands, and it seems to be that Stone offers the information as something that is already happening regardless to what the Trump Campaign does or doesn’t do. It also doesn’t seem that the Trump Campaign official seems aware of the origin of the leak that will be happening.
This is hardly collusion. A person can not be responsible for something someone else tells them that a third party may or may not be doing.
This is definitely nothing like paying a foreigner to create a dossier based on information taken from an unverified site and using it in collusion with the former Administration’s DOJ and FBI to get a surveillance warrant to spy on her opposing campaign for President of the United States of America… like Hillary Clinton DID DO.
Note: I believe Organization 1 to be Wikileaks and Person 1 to be Julian Assange, but I’ve been wrong before. It seems quite obvious though.
Conclusion: No evidence of “collusion” between Trump and Russians.
Gates worked for Manafort before and during the campaign and also headed Trump’s inaugural committee. He pleaded guilty in February 2018 to conspiracy and lying to FBI agents and prosecutors. He cooperated with Mueller and awaits sentencing. None of which implies that President Trump or his campaign colluded with Russians in order to win the 2016 Presidential Election.
[Indictment text] [2nd indictment text]
7. Konstantin Kilimnik - Obstruction of justice, conspiracy to obstruct justice
Kilimnik is an alleged Russian spy who worked with Manafort and Gates in Kiev. He was indicted in June 2018 on charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice. Which had absolutely nothing to do with the Trump Campaign or President Trump. [Indictment text]
8. George Papadopoulos - Lying to FBI; Pleaded guilty; sentenced to 14 days in prison Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, pleaded guilty in October 2017 to lying to FBI agents. He served 14 days in prison and was ordered to pay a $9,500 fine and complete 200 hours of community service.
:Testimony Released:
As Reported By The Epoch Times:
Papadopoulos revealed significant new details about his interactions with the FBI and the office of special counsel Robert Mueller.
He revealed that the FBI had asked him to travel to London and wear a wire to record Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud—something he refused to do.
Papadopoulos also told lawmakers that he believed he was the target of a sting operation, involving $10,000 he was given in cash.
EXCLUSIVE: Papadopoulos Identified Alleged Spy in Trump Campaign
George #Papadopoulos, the former foreign policy adviser to Donald #Trump’s presidential campaign, revealed during a closed-door interview with congressional lawmakers in Washington the name of the man he believes was a spy working within the campaign, according to a transcript of the testimony reviewed by The Epoch Times.
Papadopoulos, under penalty of perjury, detailed a series of what he described as “strange” interactions with a member of the Trump campaign. The timing and content of that person’s communications led Papadopoulos to suspect that the person was covertly working on behalf of U.S. intelligence.
Papadopoulos previously hinted in public statements and interviews that he knew of a spy in the Trump campaign, but never revealed the person’s name. Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson also has said the FBI had a “human source” inside the campaign.
Asked on Jan. 16 by this reporter if he’s still suspicious about the person, Papadopoulos said he is “definitely suspicious of him.”
The alleged spy began contacting Papadopoulos around the time that Papadopoulos met with the foreign minister of Greece in May 2016. Although he isn’t named in the testimony, Nikos Kotzias was Greece’s minister for foreign affairs at the time. The meeting with Kotzias was significant because Papadopoulos claims it was the only time he told anyone directly that Russia was in possession of thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails, a rumor he learned from Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud.
While it’s alleged that Papadopoulos also told Australian diplomat Alexander Downer about the emails, Papadopoulos denies the claim, asserting that he doesn’t remember sharing that information with Downer. Papadopoulos told lawmakers that Kotzias was “a bit shocked” when he learned of the rumor.
“My understanding, as far as I remember, was he was like, this isn’t something that should be talked about. So, that was it,” Papadopoulos said.
The alleged spy then re-emerged months later, in September 2016, asking Papadopoulos to attend a meeting between the Greek foreign minister and two senior Trump campaign members. Papadopoulos told lawmakers that “it made no sense to me why this person would want me to join a meeting with the Greek foreign minister, Michael Flynn, and Jeff Sessions, unless he potentially was informed of what I told the Greek foreign minister myself.”
“So then, I tell the Greek foreign minister, Oh, hey, this information. And then [Person A], all of a sudden, sometime later on in the fall, apparently there’s a meeting between the foreign minister of Greece and Jeff Sessions and Michael Flynn. And [Person A] not only wants talking points from me about this meeting, but he also wants me to attend. And he also tells me that it’s very important for you to attend and that I’m doing my best to get you in this meeting,” Papadopoulos said.
Papadopoulos learned about the alleged existence of the Clinton emails during a meeting with Mifsud in London on April 26, 2016. Papadopoulos would later lie to the FBI that he wasn’t part of the Trump campaign when the meeting occurred. He served a 14-day prison sentence for that offense last year, as a result of prosecution by special counsel Robert Mueller.
The evidence suggests that Papadopoulos was being set up by an FBI confidential source and no Russian collusion between President Trump or his campaign and Russians.
9. Alex van der Zwaan - Lying to FBI; Pleaded guilty; sentenced to 30 days in prison.
Dutch attorney Alex van der Zwaan pleaded guilty in February 2018 to lying to FBI agents about his work for Manafort and Gates. He served 30 days in prison and was fined $20,000.
[Indictment Text]
Does not name Trump once or implicate President Trump in any way shape or form.
10. Richard Pinedo - Identity fraud; Pleaded guilty; sentenced to six months in prison.
Pinedo pleaded guilty in February 2018 to identity fraud for trading in bank account numbers from stolen identities that were then used by the Russians. Pinedo was sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to complete 100 hours of community service.
[Indictment Text]
As Reported By Fox News:
Richard Pinedo, a California man who sold bank accounts to Russians meddling in the election, pleaded guilty in February 2018 to using stolen identities to set up the accounts. He was sentenced in October to six months in prison, six months in home confinement and two years of supervised release.
The U.S. government said Pinedo did not know that he was dealing with Russians when he sold the accounts. Since his arrest, Pinedo has provided investigators with "significant assistance" in identity theft probes, prosecutors said.
During his sentencing, Pinedo told the judge he took "full responsibility" and understood "there needs to be consequences" for his actions. Federal sentencing guidelines called for Pinedo to serve between 12 and 18 months behind bars, but prosecutors did not recommend a particular sentence, noting his cooperation with officials.
You guessed it…
NOTHING TO DO WITH TRUMP COLLUDING WITH RUSSIANS!
11. 12 Russian nationals tied to hacking - Conspiracy to commit computer crimes, identity theft, money laundering.
The twelve Russians were indicted in July 2018 on charges related to a conspiracy to hack Democratic computers with the goal of influencing the 2016 election. Charges included aggravated identity theft and money laundering.
[Indictment Text]
Conclusion: No Trump Collusion with Russians.
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All the released Congressional Testimony related to Russia Investigation and SpyGate
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