Seems a 'little' suspicious that a British oligarchs daughter would accidentally shoot the top cop in Belize, where her husband runs an elite resort...
Guess he won't be able to testify in any corruption cases....
Businessman, pollster & politician, seems like a trifecta of Swamp. Was Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party in the UK, equivalent to the DNC & RNC swamps.
Was appointed as a peer in the House of Lords in 2000, promising he would end his status as a tax evader, but he didn't.
When he was appointed, a DEA intel specialist leaked information on his ties to drug money laundering that DEA never got around to investigating....
Wonder if it ties into this OIG investigation that found DEA concealing illegal money laundering operations by it's agents. Including a habit of only investigating a small percentage of the crooks & leaving large well connected ones off the radar...
It seems that 10 years after being appointed to the House of Lords, that he pretended to change his status on taxes to avoid being kicked out of Parlament. But the #ParadisePapers leaks showed it was a sham & he kept his off-shore money & Belize residence...
Ashcroft was accused of buying his peerage & seat in the House of Lords from the Conservative Party, by loaning money to the party. A loophole used by several parties to avoid reporting of donations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash-for-…
Looks like his donations to the Swamp in Belize worked...
Looks like he found friends to support in Australia's Swamp too!
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yWhat may be the biggest part of the agreement, DOJ is referring Raytheon to DOD & other agencies to begin a review to determine if Raytheon or individuals involved should be suspended from government contracts & debarred from future contracts!
So in addition to the corruption & bribery, the risks of Raytheon committing crimes to conceal corruption related to arms sales to foreign governments is a major factor in this case.
Opens contractors up to other off the books deals.
Raytheon as a corporation has now flipped on their executives who made these decisions. Which means Raytheon can only survive as a business & defense contractor if it provides all the receipts for criminal prosecutions.
Raytheon will pay $950 million to settle the allegations against the company for several different criminal schemse the company participated in.
Raytheon accepted a deferred prosecution agreement that becomes a confession at trial if they don't cooperate! justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/r…
The 1st set of charges are in EDNY. Bribing Qatari officials for defense contracts.
Then conspiracy by not report the bribes on the paperwork requesting permission to export the arms to Qatar. This sets a precedent for EVERY arms export deal!
Mayor Adams indicted by the DOJ following an FBI investigation.
And people still want to side with the Swamp against th FBI & DOJ.
Why could they still believe #ButNothingsHappening after 14 years of indictments & convictions?
Remember the researchers at Georgia Tech who were getting paid by the DOD & USAF to spy on Trump & feed that info into Hillary's oppo research campaign?
DOJ joined a lawsuit accusing GT on behalf of those researchers of lying to DOD about compliance with cybersecurity procedures.
So the cybersecurity people accessing NSA data to spy upon Donald Trump for the Pentagon were willfully avoiding compliance with security proposals. Then pressuring GT to lie to the DOD & submit false audits claiming that their computers were secure.
#ButNothingsHappening
I know some people still believe Hillary's Russia Hoax that told them FBI was investigating & spying on Trump.
How long are you going to continue to believe Hillary's smokescreen & help hide that it was her campaign & the Pentagon that spied on Trump?
For those who don't understand the law in this case, Congress has authorized the Attorney General to specially appoint lawyers & conduct legal proceedings at the same level as US Attorneys without confirmation. It's specifically authorized.
While Canon ignores Section 515, it specifically authorizes AGs to appoint special attorneys to prosecute criminal cases & run grand juries same as a US Attorney can.
She claims the law does not authorize the AG to appoint a special counsel with the authority of a US Attorney.
Julian Assange flying to the North Marianas to plead guilty to espionage.
Gets a 62 month prison sentence, but will be released with time served for his 5 years in British prison.
The choice of the Northern Marianas Islands is unusual.
That US territory is a hub for Chinese money laundering to the US & to US politicians. Wonder if he will testify to a US grand jury while he is there? Or has he already done so by Zoom?
The Chinese have been buying off Swampy politicians on Pacific islands that are US territories to infiltrate them to get into the US financial system.
The Northern Marianas, the Solomons, & many others...