Reading the indictment again it seems clear that Joffe affirmatively tried to structure the project to avoid a false billing (to the govt) problem. He had to use Neustar’s data but he offloaded the actual work to GATech & employees of a sub that only had private sector clients./1
And to their credit, I will say, & good for them, even they questioned it & said it wasn’t really a use to which that the data should be put. /2
This is Company-3. The indictment specifically says they had private sector clients. (Good prosecutors don’t put things in indictments for no reason.) These were the employees Joffe used to write some of the reports, not Neustar’s.
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It’s likely also why he & Sussman wrote the white paper themselves & had the GATech guys do the review of it. None of that time would have been billed to a govt customer easily traceable to Joffe. /4
As with so much of the Russia Hoax, I think Joffe never thought & in fact counted on it never becoming known. These guys work in the shadow worlds. But he still took pains not to have some random COR or COTR questioning his bills, it appears. /5
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