Confirmation that Rudy was working as a CHS for FBI & DOJ when approaching Ukrainians & Russian spies behind them.
FBI & DOJ used news articles about Rudy's activity in the warrant to collect the #receipts Rudy gathered. Didn't mention his CHS interviews! emptywheel.net/2023/12/29/rud…
As I have been pointing out for several years, Rudy was a witness not a target of that investigation.
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The FBI refused to provide Rudy's 302s (if they were 302s) with NY SAC William Sweeney.
Likely because sharing Rudy's status as a CHS would complicate the effort to have the NY FBI affiant sig the warrant affidavit. If the agent doesn't know Rudy's a CHS, he can't tell the court.
Remember at this time, FBI & DOJ are still hunting for a suspected Russian mole in the NY FBI office. I bet they didn't want that mole to learn that Rudy was catching his Russian employers.
While Emptywheel tries to blame this on Barr his team.
She can't understand why AG Merrick Garland's DOJ wouldn't want the NY office to have the evidence of Rudy's cooperation with the FBI & DOJ.
It's because cooperation doesn't belong in parenthesis.
The people on the left & the right both believed that FBI & DOJ were out to get Rudy.
When DOJ told us 2 1/2 years ago that Rudy wasn't a target of the investigation. He had collected the evidence that needed attorney client privilege review by a court appointed special master.
Rudy's cooperation with FBI & DOJ against Parnas & others was revealed in May of 2021 in court filings in the special master appointment case.
Of course the court appointed a former judge who as a prosecutor worked with Rudy & Trump to put mobsters away.
It is great to see people on the eve of 2024 catching up to what I found in May of 2021. Now if only they would believe what they read without applying a fake news filter to it first!
If you are just learning about the Swamp creature named Leonard Leo & his control of ‘conservative’ judges who work for Fortune 500 multinational corporations instead of the American people; now is your chance to catch up.
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Leo’s friends then use your fake news to tell you that you should blindly support judicial rulings disguised as protecting the Constitution. When in reality, they are protecting Swampy relationships between corrupt companies & the politicians they own.
Why does your fake news want MAGA to support judges controlled by ’sleazeball’ Leonard Leo?
Because they believe that it’s very important that you support the judges who work for the Swamp.
How do they control them? Consulting fees, gifts & trips.
Gone are the days of German leaders from East Germany, weakening NATO by not spending their agreed upon defense budget.
Gone are the days fo German politicians buying energy from Russia & taking Swampy deals & well paid seats on Russian company boards.
Credit Suisse pleads guilty & flips for helping 475 US account holders hide billions from the IRS in off-shore accounts.
They have also signed a deferred prosecution agreement for other crimes & agreed to cooperate!
Crimes from 2010-2021!
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Credit Suisse will pay $510M in fines & penalties in addition to the guilty plea.
After corrupt bankers collapsed Credit Suisse, UBS bought them & are now also forced to comply with the cooperation agreement!
It's a 2 for 1 special!
The reason for the requirement to plead guilty is likely because when they committed these crimes, they were under a Deferred Prosecution Agreement signed in 2014 that required their cooperation.
They didn't think DOJ would hold them to it!
How long before people realize that Trump sets up cases to get precedents set in court?
Once the exact parameters & processes for using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 are confirmed deporting Tren de Aragua, how long does Trump wait to use it on China's 1000 Talents spy program?
It would be very easy to prove in court by the precedents set at this time that the 1000 Talents program is a predatory incursion against the United States by the Chinese government.