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Brad Heath
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There's now a not-quite-so-secret D.C. Cir. opinion in the mystery Mueller grand jury case.
Whoever the mystery company is, it's been ordered to pay $50,000 a day in fines until it complies with the grand jury subpoena. But the accrual is stayed while appeals are pending.
Whatever the mystery company is, it's conducting "general commercial activity in the U.S."
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Brad Heath
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Unfortunately, Mueller's office knows how to redact things.
Here's the main takeaway from Mueller's new filing spelling out the detail of why investigators think Manafort lied during proffer sessions:
In the weeks before a judge revoked his bail (for obstructing justice on house arrest), somebody asked Paul Manafort if it was OK to drop his name during a meeting with President Trump. "Yes," he replied. Mueller's office has the texts.
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Brad Heath
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Speaking of drugs: Since the Trump administration ordered prosecutors to focus on minor immigration crimes, DOJ has been bringing fewer cases against border drug traffickers than at any point in more than a decade. Here's DOJ's data, through November.
Here's our coverage from a couple months ago. The trend hasn't changed. usatoday.com/story/news/inv…
(Yes that's an Excel chart, and yes we'd normally have December data by now, but that might not be one of those essential government functions.)
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Brad Heath
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Lawyers for one of the Russian companies charged over election meddling continue to file peevish things in court, this time about how unhappy the judge seemed to be about previous peevish filings ->
The lawyers say they've been getting threats ever since the judge faulted them for unprofessional behavior. Some were "whipped into their frenzy by a cable television entertainer unknown to undersigned counsel named Rachel @Maddow."
Here's the filing -> documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
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BREAKING: Supreme Court denies the foreign country-owned company's request to stay a contempt order resulting from its refusal to comply with a grand jury's subpoena. Chief Justice Roberts' "administrative stay" is vacated, so the result is the contempt order is back in effect.
That order of the court follows this request, made Monday but put on the docket today, to file a cert petition in the case under seal. Not clear what will happen with that now, but the contempt order (and associated fines) will now be back in place.
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THREAD: A long litany of assumptions by well-meaning speculators who conduct helpful grassroots research, but are making some of the identical mistake as those who misread the Clinton email investigation made, errors born of a lack of professional experience in criminal defense.
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Seems like a thread on recent US practice w/r/t criminal prosecution of foreign sovereign entities might be of interest. @S_R_Anders @YesMomsCan @jedshug @ZoeTillman @lrozen @nycsouthpaw @kpolantz #Mueller #subpoena 1/19
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Cyrus Toulabi
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I can't with this guy...but interestingly, he's also revealing a lot with each one of these interviews.

Why not just go speak to the Grand Jury? Clearly, it's not about avoiding spending more time talking about the investigation and your experience...

He can't help himself..
#NOW: SAM NUNBERG says he was told he wasn't a target or a subject of the investigation and he was OFFERED IMMUNITY by the Special Counsel's team.

He also said THEY WANT HIM TO TESTIFY...TO CATCH ROGER STONE ON PERJURY...

ADMITTING THAT ROGER MAY HAVE LIED TO PROSECUTORS.
#LOL: Save this one...

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