Former Obama WH counsel Greg Craig indicted in charges connected to Mueller probe

[The Purge]

The Surrender Monkey...NOT A SCANDAL IN MY ADMINISTRATION......ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!.... Now THREATEN HIM with 30 years if HE Doesn't talk!!!

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Greg Craig, a prominent Democratic attorney who worked for two presidents, charging him with false statements and concealing material information in connection with work he performed for Ukraine. An indictment in the case against Craig, which originated in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, has been expected for several weeks, with Craig's own lawyers saying Wednesday they anticipated such an outcome. Craig, 74, is the highest-profile Democrat to be indicted in a matter stemming from Mueller's work, which resulted in charges against numerous Republicans connected to President Donald Trump. The case is being handled by the US Attorney's office for the District of Columbia in connection with the Justice Department's national security division. The case is likely to bring renewed attention to the Justice Department's application of a once-obscure law applying to unregistered foreign agents.

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[hunarcy]

The Surrender Monkey...NOT A SCANDAL IN MY ADMINISTRATION......ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!.... Now THREATEN HIM with 30 years if HE Doesn't talk!!!

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Greg Craig, a prominent Democratic attorney who worked for two presidents, charging him with false statements and concealing material information in connection with work he performed for Ukraine. An indictment in the case against Craig, which originated in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, has been expected for several weeks, with Craig's own lawyers saying Wednesday they anticipated such an outcome. Craig, 74, is the highest-profile Democrat to be indicted in a matter stemming from Mueller's work, which resulted in charges against numerous Republicans connected to President Donald Trump. The case is being handled by the US Attorney's office for the District of Columbia in connection with the Justice Department's national security division. The case is likely to bring renewed attention to the Justice Department's application of a once-obscure law applying to unregistered foreign agents.

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Uh oh...seems like trouble on the horizon for the Left. An isolated case, or the start of something big?

 

[bendog]

The Surrender Monkey...NOT A SCANDAL IN MY ADMINISTRATION......ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!.... Now THREATEN HIM with 30 years if HE Doesn't talk!!!

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Greg Craig, a prominent Democratic attorney who worked for two presidents, charging him with false statements and concealing material information in connection with work he performed for Ukraine. An indictment in the case against Craig, which originated in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, has been expected for several weeks, with Craig's own lawyers saying Wednesday they anticipated such an outcome. Craig, 74, is the highest-profile Democrat to be indicted in a matter stemming from Mueller's work, which resulted in charges against numerous Republicans connected to President Donald Trump. The case is being handled by the US Attorney's office for the District of Columbia in connection with the Justice Department's national security division. The case is likely to bring renewed attention to the Justice Department's application of a once-obscure law applying to unregistered foreign agents.

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Uh oh...seems like trouble on the horizon for the Left. An isolated case, or the start of something big?

It's not partisan. But I wondered what Manafort in the Ukraine and illegal lobbying and perhaps tax fraud had to do with Trump and the election….. besides Mueller pressuring him to flip on Trump

 

[Lesh]

What's he charged with and when?

 

[miketx]

What's he charged with and when?

Collusion.

 

[Edgetho]

He was indicted for withholding material facts and misleading regulators about whether he should have registered as a foreign agent under FARA [Foreign Agents Registration Act] for his work for Manafort's client in Ukraine.

Former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig was charged with making false statements on Thursday in connection with the failures by his former law firm to report its work for powerful clients in Ukraine.

Mueller referred Craig to federal prosecutors, presumably because, while he discovered evidence of a crime, it wasn't a crime he was commissioned to investigate.

He also referred longtime Friend of the Clintons Tony Podesta for the same failure to register as a foreign agent.

Since the spring, Mueller has referred matters to SDNY involving longtime Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta and his work for his former firm, the Podesta Group, and former Minnesota Republican Rep. Vin Weber and his work for Mercury Public Affairs, the sources said.

The media freaked that Paul Manafort, who never worked in the White House, was an unregistered Ukraine agent.

Well, so was Greg Craig -- and Greg Craig worked in the White House as Obama's White House Counsel. He was Obama's taxpayer-paid top lawyer.

Exit Question: Do you think the media will give this as much play?

Exit Answer: No, you don't think that. In fact, you think the precise opposite.

Edge:

Bonus coverage under the Banner; "Shit the DISGUSTING FILTH ain't never gonna touch"


The honorary Permanent Expert Analyst of CNN and MSNBC has been taking other people's money for some time now.

Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti was slammed Thursday with a 36-count indictment by a federal grand jury in California that accuses him of ripping off clients -- including a mentally ill paraplegic -- tax crimes, wire fraud, bank fraud, and perjury.
The indictment comes more than two weeks after federal prosecutors in Los Angeles and New York hit Avenatti with separate criminal complaints.

In the New York federal case, Avenatti is accused of trying to extort more than $20 million from Nike by threatening to expose alleged bribery of amateur basketball players and their families unless the company coughed up cash to Avenatti and a client.

...

Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti was slammed Thursday with a 36-count indictment by a federal grand jury in California that accuses him of ripping off clients-- including a mentally ill paraplegic -- for millions of dollars, shorting the IRS of millions more, swiping millions of dollars in employment taxes from his coffee company, and perjury.

The indictment comes more than two weeks after federal prosecutors in Los Angeles and New York hit the 48-year-old Avenatti with separate criminal complaints.

...

U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna of Los Angeles said that Avenatti's allegedly criminal conduct spanned four distinct areas, which "are all linked to one another because money generated from one set of crimes appears in other sets -- typically in the form of payments to lull victims and to prevent Mr. Avenatti's financial house of cards from collapsing."

An IRS official said that the money stolen by Avenatti though "a tangled financial web of lies" was "used to fund a lavish lifestyle which had no limits."

H/T Ace of Spades HQ

 

[B. Kidd]

Indictment was expected, not a surprise, and definitely not a bombshell.

 

[depotoo]

his indictment-

http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/04/11/craig,.gregory.-.stamped.indictment.-.april.2019.pdf

 

[hunarcy]

Indictment was expected, not a surprise, and definitely not a bombshell.

Unless someone on my ignore list used the term, no one mentioned "bombshell" but you.

 

[imawhosure]

The Surrender Monkey...NOT A SCANDAL IN MY ADMINISTRATION......ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!.... Now THREATEN HIM with 30 years if HE Doesn't talk!!!

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Greg Craig, a prominent Democratic attorney who worked for two presidents, charging him with false statements and concealing material information in connection with work he performed for Ukraine. An indictment in the case against Craig, which originated in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, has been expected for several weeks, with Craig's own lawyers saying Wednesday they anticipated such an outcome. Craig, 74, is the highest-profile Democrat to be indicted in a matter stemming from Mueller's work, which resulted in charges against numerous Republicans connected to President Donald Trump. The case is being handled by the US Attorney's office for the District of Columbia in connection with the Justice Department's national security division. The case is likely to bring renewed attention to the Justice Department's application of a once-obscure law applying to unregistered foreign agents.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...

The Surrender Monkey...NOT A SCANDAL IN MY ADMINISTRATION......ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!.... Now THREATEN HIM with 30 years if HE Doesn't talk!!!

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Greg Craig, a prominent Democratic attorney who worked for two presidents, charging him with false statements and concealing material information in connection with work he performed for Ukraine. An indictment in the case against Craig, which originated in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, has been expected for several weeks, with Craig's own lawyers saying Wednesday they anticipated such an outcome. Craig, 74, is the highest-profile Democrat to be indicted in a matter stemming from Mueller's work, which resulted in charges against numerous Republicans connected to President Donald Trump. The case is being handled by the US Attorney's office for the District of Columbia in connection with the Justice Department's national security division. The case is likely to bring renewed attention to the Justice Department's application of a once-obscure law applying to unregistered foreign agents.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...

Uh oh...seems like trouble on the horizon for the Left. An isolated case, or the start of something big?

What's he charged with and when?

I have a question for the Left----------> Did you see that Assange got arrested? Of course you did!

Did you know that the US has issued an international warrant after he was arrested, for helping Mz/Mr Manning to break into the top secret servers to get the information he released? You might have.

Did you know that Britain is going to entertain that warrant, which means he will probably be extradited to the US!

So what does that have to do with ANYTHING Leftists ask-)

ANSWER--------------->Because your whole bit was--------> the Russians got Assange to break into the DNC, and the Russians and Trump schemed it all together, lol. Now then-----------> once in the United States if extradited, ANY place (like New York, ya know, all your pals) can indict him for this.

Are they gonna do it, and do YOU WANNA BET-)

You see, it is all coming apart for you, since now all the players YOUR SIDE named, are now going to be available. (you don't believe that Trump put pressure to remove diplomatic immunity from him now, do you, lol) What do ya think is coming your way-)

Now your position is--------> Greg Craig, no biggy, correct, lol! All the pieces are not FALLING in place, but are being FORCED into place, and the weather system heading in your direction is beyond believe. If you are to dumb to see what is now happening right before your very eyes, I do feel sorry for you, but admit------>it couldn't happen to a nastier bunch of Leftist/Socialists-)

 

[Zorro!]

The Surrender Monkey...NOT A SCANDAL IN MY ADMINISTRATION......ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!.... Now THREATEN HIM with 30 years if HE Doesn't talk!!!

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Greg Craig, a prominent Democratic attorney who worked for two presidents, charging him with false statements and concealing material information in connection with work he performed for Ukraine. An indictment in the case against Craig, which originated in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, has been expected for several weeks, with Craig's own lawyers saying Wednesday they anticipated such an outcome. Craig, 74, is the highest-profile Democrat to be indicted in a matter stemming from Mueller's work, which resulted in charges against numerous Republicans connected to President Donald Trump. The case is being handled by the US Attorney's office for the District of Columbia in connection with the Justice Department's national security division. The case is likely to bring renewed attention to the Justice Department's application of a once-obscure law applying to unregistered foreign agents.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...

Uh oh...seems like trouble on the horizon for the Left. An isolated case, or the start of something big?

The Real Takeaway of the Failed Mueller Investigation: Washington Is Crawling with Foreign Influencers.

In an indictment that seized the attention of the capital’s K Street lobbying corridor, Gregory B. Craig, a White House counsel in the Obama administration, was charged on Thursday with lying to the Justice Department and concealing information about work he did in 2012 for the government of Ukraine.

The charges represented a continuation — and an expansion — of a new focus on a long-neglected law governing foreign influence operations in the United States, which the Justice Department has begun prioritizing in part because of scrutiny related to Mr. Mueller’s investigation.

The career of Tony Podesta exemplifies how extensive the foreign presence D.C. has become.

"In 1988 Tony and John Podesta founded Podesta Associates ... By 2015, the Podesta Group was the third largest in Washington D.C. The firm had a number of foreign governments as clients, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Republic of Iraq and the government of South Sudan."

Podesta's lobbying firm performed well in 2015 because clients believed that he had access to a future Hillary Clinton administration. In the 2016 presidential election, he raised money for Clinton. Fundraising records show that over the course of a decade Podesta and his wife Heather donated more to the Democratic Party and its candidates than any other lobbyists. In 2017, Tony Podesta came under scrutiny for failing to disclose the extent of his political work for a Ukrainian group tied to both adviser Paul Manafort and to the pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2012.

Foreign entities seek entry at all levels. In 2016, as chief of staff and counselor to Hillary Clinton at the State Department, Cheryl D. Mills worked ceaselessly to help a South Korean garment maker open a factory in Haiti despite criticism of its labor record elsewhere. During Ms. Mills’s tenure at the department, Mr. Kim’s company, Sae-A, became a donor to the Clinton Foundation.

Foreign powers may now come in the guise of companies. The Lawfare Blog notes that

the Justice Department filed two notices under Section 1806(c) in the Huawei case. We learned that the U.S. government at some point had obtained FISA surveillance orders targeting both companies"

That means that the government first had to go to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to show not merely that a purpose of the collection would be foreign-intelligence gathering but also that there is probable cause to believe that the specific target of the collection was a “foreign power” or an “agent of a foreign power.

It's not just companies. Ever since Sept 11, 2001, there's been a growing fear that religious organizations can act like "foreign powers." The Islamic Association of North America (IANA) "formally joined the USCMO, in effect, the U.S. branch of Erdogan’s pro-Muslim Brotherhood Justice and Development Party ... just months after Ilhan Omar, state representative of Minnesota" met with Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in New York.

The real takeaway of the Mueller investigation is that Washington is honeycombed with foreign influencers, pretty much everywhere. The Free Beacon points out,

China is mining intelligence from an estimated 23 million records of American federal workers, including intelligence and security personnel, stolen in cyberattacks against the Office of Personnel Management.

 

[Norman]

This may be the downside of accusing Trump for everything they have been involved in.

 

[BULLDOG]

He was indicted for withholding material facts and misleading regulators about whether he should have registered as a foreign agent under FARA [Foreign Agents Registration Act] for his work for Manafort's client in Ukraine.

Former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig was charged with making false statements on Thursday in connection with the failures by his former law firm to report its work for powerful clients in Ukraine.

Mueller referred Craig to federal prosecutors, presumably because, while he discovered evidence of a crime, it wasn't a crime he was commissioned to investigate.

He also referred longtime Friend of the Clintons Tony Podesta for the same failure to register as a foreign agent.

Since the spring, Mueller has referred matters to SDNY involving longtime Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta and his work for his former firm, the Podesta Group, and former Minnesota Republican Rep. Vin Weber and his work for Mercury Public Affairs, the sources said.

The media freaked that Paul Manafort, who never worked in the White House, was an unregistered Ukraine agent.

Well, so was Greg Craig -- and Greg Craig worked in the White House as Obama's White House Counsel. He was Obama's taxpayer-paid top lawyer.

Exit Question: Do you think the media will give this as much play?

Exit Answer: No, you don't think that. In fact, you think the precise opposite.

Edge:

Bonus coverage under the Banner; "Shit the DISGUSTING FILTH ain't never gonna touch"


The honorary Permanent Expert Analyst of CNN and MSNBC has been taking other people's money for some time now.

Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti was slammed Thursday with a 36-count indictment by a federal grand jury in California that accuses him of ripping off clients -- including a mentally ill paraplegic -- tax crimes, wire fraud, bank fraud, and perjury.
The indictment comes more than two weeks after federal prosecutors in Los Angeles and New York hit Avenatti with separate criminal complaints.

In the New York federal case, Avenatti is accused of trying to extort more than $20 million from Nike by threatening to expose alleged bribery of amateur basketball players and their families unless the company coughed up cash to Avenatti and a client.

...

Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti was slammed Thursday with a 36-count indictment by a federal grand jury in California that accuses him of ripping off clients-- including a mentally ill paraplegic -- for millions of dollars, shorting the IRS of millions more, swiping millions of dollars in employment taxes from his coffee company, and perjury.

The indictment comes more than two weeks after federal prosecutors in Los Angeles and New York hit the 48-year-old Avenatti with separate criminal complaints.

...

U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna of Los Angeles said that Avenatti's allegedly criminal conduct spanned four distinct areas, which "are all linked to one another because money generated from one set of crimes appears in other sets -- typically in the form of payments to lull victims and to prevent Mr. Avenatti's financial house of cards from collapsing."

An IRS official said that the money stolen by Avenatti though "a tangled financial web of lies" was "used to fund a lavish lifestyle which had no limits."

H/T Ace of Spades HQ

Big deal He quit working for the White House in 2010, and the indictment has to do with work he did in 2012.

 

[aaronleland]

Are these charges more legit than the others brought on by the Mueller investigation? If so, ask yourself why you think that. It probably has nothing to do with you being a partisan tool.

 

[pyetro]

The Surrender Monkey...NOT A SCANDAL IN MY ADMINISTRATION......ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!.... Now THREATEN HIM with 30 years if HE Doesn't talk!!!

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Greg Craig, a prominent Democratic attorney who worked for two presidents, charging him with false statements and concealing material information in connection with work he performed for Ukraine. An indictment in the case against Craig, which originated in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, has been expected for several weeks, with Craig's own lawyers saying Wednesday they anticipated such an outcome. Craig, 74, is the highest-profile Democrat to be indicted in a matter stemming from Mueller's work, which resulted in charges against numerous Republicans connected to President Donald Trump. The case is being handled by the US Attorney's office for the District of Columbia in connection with the Justice Department's national security division. The case is likely to bring renewed attention to the Justice Department's application of a once-obscure law applying to unregistered foreign agents.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...

Lol. Crap fail thread didn't age well: Jury finds former Obama White House Counsel Gregory Craig not guilty in foreign-influence case

 

[The Purge]

The Surrender Monkey...NOT A SCANDAL IN MY ADMINISTRATION......ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!.... Now THREATEN HIM with 30 years if HE Doesn't talk!!!

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Greg Craig, a prominent Democratic attorney who worked for two presidents, charging him with false statements and concealing material information in connection with work he performed for Ukraine. An indictment in the case against Craig, which originated in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, has been expected for several weeks, with Craig's own lawyers saying Wednesday they anticipated such an outcome. Craig, 74, is the highest-profile Democrat to be indicted in a matter stemming from Mueller's work, which resulted in charges against numerous Republicans connected to President Donald Trump. The case is being handled by the US Attorney's office for the District of Columbia in connection with the Justice Department's national security division. The case is likely to bring renewed attention to the Justice Department's application of a once-obscure law applying to unregistered foreign agents.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...

Lol. Crap fail thread didn't age well: Jury finds former Obama White House Counsel Gregory Craig not guilty in foreign-influence case

SURPRISE A WASHINGTO DC. JURY....95% OF DC OCCUPANTS ARE BRAIN DEAD DEMONRATS...JUST LIKE YOU! LET HIS GUILTY ASS OFF THE HOOK!

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Another low level nobody paying the price for his masters.

 

[Polishprince]

The Surrender Monkey...NOT A SCANDAL IN MY ADMINISTRATION......ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!.... Now THREATEN HIM with 30 years if HE Doesn't talk!!!

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Greg Craig, a prominent Democratic attorney who worked for two presidents, charging him with false statements and concealing material information in connection with work he performed for Ukraine. An indictment in the case against Craig, which originated in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, has been expected for several weeks, with Craig's own lawyers saying Wednesday they anticipated such an outcome. Craig, 74, is the highest-profile Democrat to be indicted in a matter stemming from Mueller's work, which resulted in charges against numerous Republicans connected to President Donald Trump. The case is being handled by the US Attorney's office for the District of Columbia in connection with the Justice Department's national security division. The case is likely to bring renewed attention to the Justice Department's application of a once-obscure law applying to unregistered foreign agents.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...

Mr. Craig should be given an opportunity for leniency, if he is willing to turn state's evidence against Obama, Clinton,or better yet, the 2020 Democrat Party nominee.

 

[BULLDOG]

The Surrender Monkey...NOT A SCANDAL IN MY ADMINISTRATION......ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!.... Now THREATEN HIM with 30 years if HE Doesn't talk!!!

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Greg Craig, a prominent Democratic attorney who worked for two presidents, charging him with false statements and concealing material information in connection with work he performed for Ukraine. An indictment in the case against Craig, which originated in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, has been expected for several weeks, with Craig's own lawyers saying Wednesday they anticipated such an outcome. Craig, 74, is the highest-profile Democrat to be indicted in a matter stemming from Mueller's work, which resulted in charges against numerous Republicans connected to President Donald Trump. The case is being handled by the US Attorney's office for the District of Columbia in connection with the Justice Department's national security division. The case is likely to bring renewed attention to the Justice Department's application of a once-obscure law applying to unregistered foreign agents.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...

Mr. Craig should be given an opportunity for leniency, if he is willing to turn state's evidence against Obama, Clinton,or better yet, the 2020 Democrat Party nominee.

Are you confused again? Craig was found not guilty. There is no reason for leniency of any kind. On some level, you had to know that all the crazy accusations from the right would eventually be evaluated and found to be bullshit. Expect more of the same.