Interesting, the raid on Rep. Cuellar is not just related to domestic Swamp activity. But to crooks for Azerbaijan & US businessmen who must be the go betweens.
Cuellar was the Chair of the House Azerbaijan Caucus!
Hillary's oppo research man Cody Shearer tried to claim that Trump took a $10M bribe in Baku & became the middleman who arranged trips by members of Congress to meet oligarchs in Azerbaijan!
This was the dossier passed by Blumenthal/ Winer/Steele to FBI
The anti-money laundering team that Comey created at HSBC detected corruption & money laundering between Azerbaijani officials & French oil company Total.
Led to raids on the commodity traders who served as the middleman.
The commodity trader got caught paying off Bank of China with money it owed to HSBC & forging documents.
It borrowed money from HSBC to buy Azeri oil, then paid Bank of China the money from the oil instead of paying back HSBC...
The Azerbaijan officials also were bribing Hungarian officials & a Belgian Senator to the EU Parliament...
You can see why Azerbaijan was such an important hub between Iran & Russia. It is literally between them.
But they had lots of donors flying members of Congress to Baku to educate them about oil & other things...
Baku was such a problem for global corruption, money laundering, sanctions violations & Iranian WMD proliferation networks.
That the FBI had to send their very best undercover asset to Baku to identify the networks for them!
@OCCRP For the past 5 years, the European banks from Danske Bank to Swedbank & Deutsche Bank have been getting rolled & flipped for laundering this money from Azerbaijan & through Russian & Ukrainian oligarchs & politicians.
One of the people involved in illegally funding these Congressional Junkets was arrested in 2018 to face DOJ charges.
Perjury to hide that extractive industry money was behind giving $100s of thousands in gifts to 9 members of Congress & 32 staffers.
This even ties in to the disappearance & death of former FBI agent Bob Levinson. CIA's Directorate of Intel, illegally sent Bob to investigate Iranian money laundering because they did not trust the information CIA's Directorate of Operations was providing
Rep. Cueller made 'historic' partnerships between Texas A&M & Azerbaijan as part of his deals...
Higher Ed Swamp connected to the Political Swamp connected to the Oligarch Swamp connected to the Oil Swamp. Can't wait to see the indictments
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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...