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@DevinNunes employs the nuclear option on Fusion GPS & Glenn Simpson! $9.9M + triple damages RICO lawsuit for obstruction of justice to defame him & intimidate him from performing his duties as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee!
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6382…

Racketeering case against the Fusion GPS & Glenn Simpson what Nunes calls a variety or racketeering crimes, intimidation, false ethics claims, wire fraud, & lying to Congress, the FBI & DOJ! Seeking injunctions prohibiting them from committing future oppo research crimes!

Accuses Fusion GPS of having a business model based upon creating false 'dossiers' & then getting them published by friendly media! That certainly isn't news!

The RICO suit also names Campaign for Accountability, Inc. of “CfA” identifying them as an organization that does astroturfing using fake social media accounts (bots) to promote a position that real people don't support.

The suit accuses Simpson of "conspiring" with Perkins Coie, Orbis & Chris Steele to create fake intellegience reports "for the express purpose of instigating and promoting the false narrative that the Trump campaign or persons associated with it colluded with Russians."

A conspiracy to "influence the outcome of the 2016 election."
I thought that was Treason? We'll see, it will be hard for Democrats to take that back after 3 years of calling it Treason. They'll try of course!

Huh, Simpson was colluding with former intelligence officials from another country to influence the election.

I recall the Democrats calling that Treason also!

While Perkins Coie isn't a named defendant in the RICO suit, they are named as co-conspirators in the suit! Including Marc Elias (lawyer of choice for Swampy Democrats) & Michael Sussman former DOJ official who tried to influence the FBI"s investigation in 2016.

The suit also identifies CfA's source of revenue for their astroturfing, the left-wing New Venture Fund. Seems CfA paid Fusion GPS while they were targeting Devin Nunes with left-wing funding.

Nunes then identifies his key witnesses against Fusion GPS & their corrupt practices: James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Bruce Ohr, & Nellie Ohr, because they all live in Virginia helping gain jurisdiction in VA over DC!

Then we get to the Statement of Facts! We've all known for a long time that Perkins Coie funneled the money to Fusion GPS thanks to Nunes' subpoenas!

But I am going to have to come back to it tomorrow because there are too many facts there! #ButNothingsHappening

It is mostly stuff that most of us who follow the case closely already know, but I bet a lot of journalists who aren't very curious about facts will be surprised.
But it does seem Fusion created a #DirtyDossier against Nunes too in the hopes of avoiding criminal referral!

That CfA in collusion with Fusion GPS filed 3 false ethics complaints against Nunes in the hopes of intimidating him into not making a criminal referral to the DOJ for Simpson's perjury before multiple Congressional committees.

Accuses CfA & Fusion of making false allegations that Rep. Nunes made the Waldman/Warner text leaks.

They then brought in California left wing activists who requested then released his wife's school related emails. Resulting in false allegations & harassment of teachers & school administrators.

Fortunately for the truth to be exposed, some of these conspirators are dumb enough to brag about the dirty tricks they play with left-wing money.

The racketeers also colluded with McClatchy newspapers to publish the false allegations from the fake ethics claims. Not unusual for media members to print lies for the right people. #ButNothingsHappening

Rep. Nunes says that they hid their conspiracy to protect Fusion GPS & keep their fingerprints off ethics complaints used to intimidate a member of Congress from performing their duty & referring criminal charges against Glenn Simpson.

He also uses the Mueller Report to prove that the allegations made in the #DirtyDossier were "false and
misleading in all material respects."

Good think Mueller investigated the people Steele named in the dossier, or we wouldn't have proof they were innocent!

Wonder how @DevinNunes learned that CfA was paying Fusion GPS to do "research"? Wonder if it was discovery from the Devin Nunes Cow lawsuit or another source.

Wonder if McClatchy was getting paid to print these fake stories or if they did it for politics alone? #Presstitutes

@DevinNunes Looks like money was being laundered through different organizations affiliated with Christopher Steele & Orbis to hide the payments for anti-Trump work. From Feinstein staffer Dan Jones & Democrat donors under The Democracy Integrity Project.

@DevinNunes Now we get to the specific RICO corruption allegations. Threatening, intimidating, and corruptly influencing to obstruct justice of crimes committed by members of the organization!

@DevinNunes Defendants attempted to corruptly persuade the Chairman & members of the House Intelligence Committee and 3rd parties to prevent the criminal referral of Glenn Simpson to the Department of Justice.

@DevinNunes Fusion GPS, CfA & Simpson corruptly dissuaded members of the Intel Cmte in an effort to hinder the reporting of criminal offenses by Simpson & other officers of Fusion GPS to the FBI & DOJ.

@DevinNunes It's starting to get really good, trying to interfere with Nunes employment as a member of Congress to intimidate him out of providing truthful reporting to law enforcment about the commission of crimes by Glenn Simpson & others.

@DevinNunes Accusing Fusion GPS, Simpson, Orbis & Steele of corruptly providing a fraudulent document (the dossier) to the FBI, DOJ, State & Congress for the "express purpose of influencing the outcome of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election and, thereafter, to topple a sitting President."

That is called colluding with a foreign intelligence agent to influence a Presidential election, also known as Treason to Democrats for several years. Toppling a sitting President is what most would call a coup! With the help of foreign intelligence agents no less...

This seems to escalate the role of McClatchy as a participant in the smear campaign, not just as journalism but as a "cut-out" for racketeering to obstruct a government official from reporting evidence of federal crime.

Not only did they do this to Nunes to protect the crooks at Fusion GPS, but they did it to Halvorssen to protect Venezuelan crooks, Browder to protect Russian crooks, & Trump to protect Beltway Crooks.
i.e. a pattern of racketeering to obstruct investigations into corruption.

Followed up with a RICO Conspiracy allegation too! Not only did they do these things, they engaged in a criminal conspiracy to commit racketeering offenses!

Rep. Nunes also through in a common law conspiracy to defame him, just in case some judge tries to misapply RICO law to not include the defendants in this case!

I'm betting a lot of so called journalists are reading this tonight & wondering if this is all true. Wondering if there is evidence of all of this to back up Nunes' claims.
While this corner of Twitter has already reviewed the evidence & know most of this was already public!

As I stated earlier the discovery for this law suit is going to be amazing! Getting to open up the files & communications of Fusion, Orbis, Perkins Coie, McClatchy, CfA, the DNC, and many more will be worth the waiting!

In fact, Representative @DevinNunes expects that this discovery will give him the opportunity to add additional allegations (and probable defendants) to this RICO lawsuit!

#ButNothingsHappening!

Nunes is asking for the usual punishments for Fusion GPS & their co-conspirators including stripping them of all income & profit they made off of this racketeering activity. And shutting them down so they can't do it in the future!

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