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Clinton, Obama Attorney Greg Craig Snagged in Mueller Probe
Clinton, Obama Attorney Greg Craig Snagged in Mueller Probe | Trending
By Debra Heine ~ March 19, 2019
Former Obama White House counsel and Clinton impeachment attorney Greg Craig may soon be indicted by the Justice Department for engaging in illegal unregistered overseas lobbying, Fox News reported Tuesday. Craig appears to have been caught up in special counsel Robert Mueller's long-running investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
If charged, Craig would be the first Democrat to face prosecution in Mueller's Russia probe, according to Fox.
In September, Manafort admitted to directing two firms -- Mercury Public Affairs and the Podesta Group -- to lobby in the U.S. on behalf of a Ukrainian political party and Ukraine's government, then led by Yanukovych, Manafort's longtime political patron.... Mercury and Podesta, which were paid a combined $2 million on the project, then registered under a less stringent lobbying law that doesn't require as much public disclosure as FARA. Both firms have said they registered under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, rather than FARA, on the advice of lawyers at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Craig's former firm. But in court papers, Mueller's prosecutors suggested the firms were aware they were working on Ukraine's behalf.... The Podesta case has reportedly not yet been moved to the DOJ, but in January, there was "a flurry of new activity" as "federal prosecutors began systematically interviewing witnesses and contacting lawyers to schedule additional questioning related to the Podesta Group and Mercury Public Affairs." Trump and his allies have frequently questioned why Tony Podesta, who was guilty of many of the same things as Manafort, was never arrested and charged.
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Congress has written Laws and regulations with so many loopholes that they are used for politicizing contradictory loopholes and there are probably other such problem. If you are going to have A FARA law, enforce it. If you are going to have a Logan Act, rewrite it so it can't be interpreted according to which opposition person you want to destroy. Get rid of the Hatch Act (federal programs are administered in a nonpartisan fashion) because with a bureaucracy and spoils system of government, there is no nonpartisan fashion. Make laws specific and without legalese to confuse issues and make every thing vague. You want a good legal system, you have to force politicians not to be politicians. Good luck with that.
Let the games begin! Hear the Pigs begin to squeal.... Napoleon is soon on the run.....