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Chris Geidner
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NEWS: We Now Know The Law Firm Representing The Mystery Foreign-Owned Company That Is Fighting A Grand Jury Subpoena — It *is* Alston & Bird. CNN previously reported the firm was involved. buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
How'd we find this out? Thanks to the @rcfp motion seeking to intervene at #SCOTUS. In the gov't response to that motion, the gov't "cc’d Petitioner’s attorney" in sending out the copies to the parties. Later, "Petitioner's counsel" even confirmed receipt of @rcfp's papers.
Today, @rcfp lawyer @BoutrousTed responded to my request about that and provided @BuzzFeedNews with on-the-record comment about their filing — including naming Alston & Bird — today. buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
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Update in the mystery grand jury matter: Both sides now agree that the foreign country-owned company’s supplemental brief at #SCOTUS can be filed in unredacted form. (So, I’d imagine that means we’ll be able to read it. Soon? I’m checking.)
Recall that last Friday, we learned, definitively from a DC Circuit filing and the district court docket who the lawyers are: It's Alston & Bird for the foreign country-owned company and lawyers with the special counsel's office. Thread:
Cross-referencing the district court, DC Circuit, and SCOTUS dockets, it seems likely that the supplemental brief at #SCOTUS relates to a series of rulings — from the dist ct on 1/15 & 1/24 & the DC Cir on 1/29 — that appear to relate to accrual and enforceability of fines.
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Chris Geidner
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Four years ago this weekend, I published this blockbuster report: Nancy Reagan Turned Down Rock Hudson's Plea For Help Nine Weeks Before He Died buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
“Mrs. Reagan ... did not feel this was something the White House should get into ...” buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
As the world found out during that summer of 1985 that Rock Hudson was gay and had been diagnosed with AIDS, this happened behind the scenes. buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
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Chris Geidner
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JUST IN: Alston & Bird partners Brian Boone and Ted Kang have acknowledged representation of "Country A" in the grand jury dispute, through an unsealed motion at the DC Circuit. / Earlier story from me: buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
And, yes, as someone noted, A&B do regularly in their filings — at SCOTUS as well — just refer to the subpoenaed corporation, wholly owned by a foreign country, as “Country A.”
This seems to me to be a pretty transparent attempt to argue, through the language they choose, that the company is inseparable from the country (as part of their Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act argument).
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Scott Stedman
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In perhaps the strongest evidence that Russia is fighting the Mueller subpoena, the law firm that is representing the mystery company, Alston & Bird, was previously hired by the Russian government: prweek.com/article/127315…
So as recent as 2013, Alston & Bird was working for the Russian government. Not many law firms do that. nbcnews.com/storyline/ukra…
Make that 2014
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Chimene Keitner
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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
For non-lawyers: to “quash” a subpoena, the recipient (defendant or witness) must show that compliance would be “unreasonable or oppressive.” A court can hold in contempt a witness “who, without adequate cause, disobeys a subpoena.” 2/19 law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/r…
Yesterday’s panel opinion upholding the subpoena and the contempt order rejected the foreign state-owned company’s arguments that it was 1) immune from US jurisdiction and 2) precluded from complying by foreign law. 3/19 lawfare.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/staging/2018/3…
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Karol 🍃
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⚠️NatSecCrisis⚠️

US Officials ‘at a F*cking Loss’ Over Latest Russia Sell Out

WH says they are considering handing over US citizens if Putin asks.😱

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Dr. Dena Grayson
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💣BOOM💣

THREAD: Remember the claims by @realDonaldTrump & cronies that he'd sit for an interview w/Mueller⁉️

Trump LIED.🙄

Trump’s lawyers have **for months** tried to prevent Mueller from trying to force Trump to answer questions = #subpoena‼️ 1/

nytimes.com/2018/06/02/us/…
In a letter to Mueller, Trump's lawyers claim that Trump "cannot be compelled" to testify.🙄

WRONG! Mueller can #subpoena Trump to FORCE him to testify **in front of the grand jury**.😎

Trump's lawyers CAN be w/him for an interview, but NOT for grand jury testimony.😉 2/
Trump's lawyers also claim Trump "could not possibly have committed obstruction b/c he has unfettered authority over all federal investigations."🤨

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Dr. Dena Grayson
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🛑BREAKING🛑

Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg has been subpoenaed to appear in front of Mueller’s federal grand jury but says he REFUSES to go‼️

Nunberg provided a copy of his #subpoena👈🏼NUNBERG is the WITNESS in the subpoena leaked yesterday‼️ 1/

washingtonpost.com/politics/forme…
Nunberg provided WaPo w/ a copy of his 2-page grand jury #subpoena seeking documents related to Trump and 9 other people, including emails, correspondence, invoices, telephone logs, calendars and “records of any kind.”.🤔 2/
Looks like NUNBERG is the mysterious WITNESS who leaked his #subpoena, first reported by @axios yesterday.😉 3/

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Dr. Dena Grayson
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🔥WHOA🔥

THREAD: An *actual Grand Jury #subpoena* — from Mueller to a witness just last month — has LEAKED‼️

What’s NOT in it is more interesting than what IS.🤨

Let’s break it down together.🤗 1/

#MuellerTime

axios.com/robert-muller-…
Here is WHAT, WHO, and WHEN is *in* Mueller’s #subpoena.👇🏼 2/
First, WHAT Mueller is subpoenaing👉🏼ALL communications — meaning emails, texts, handwritten notes, etc. — that this particular (unknown) WITNESS sent and received.🤔

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