most lawyers would just quit but they don't have to. as far as legal consequences tho the lawyer would be safe as long as they could prove they didn't know the statement was a lie and had no good reason to think they where lied to, their client may be fucked tho for soliciting a false testimony.
Mueller subpoena's (former) employee of Cambridge Analytica.
Hmm. Neat.
"Ukraine's Opposition Bloc" basically means Russians. And, yes, Paul Manafort worked for them.The ex-employee, Brittany Kaiser, is cooperating fully with Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, the spokesperson added. Kaiser is also cooperating with congressional and other legal investigations into the actions of Cambridge Analytica.
Cambridge Analytica shut down last year after becoming embroiled in controversy for improperly obtaining data on tens of millions of Facebook users.
Kaiser says that the subpoena came after The Guardian reported last year that she met in 2017 with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while she was still working for Cambridge Analytica, according to the newspaper. WikiLeaks is a focus of Mueller's probe because it released hacked Democratic emails ahead of the 2016 election.
The special counsel has also previously probed the ties between Cambridge Analytica and the Trump campaign.
In a case stemming from Mueller's probe, federal prosecutors have already charged Sam Patten, another former employee of the firm and an ex-associate of Paul Manafort.
Patten pleaded guilty last year to illegal foreign lobbying after he was charged with failing to register as a foreign agent for Ukraine's Opposition Bloc. Patten, who agreed to cooperate with the special counsel, is scheduled to be sentenced in April.
We've heard plenty about CA but not recently. Well, with Roger Stone in the crosshairs, this new development is not a massive surprise.
She's definitely plucked. I guess people think they can get away with this shit because so far a lot of them have. Of course, that's all going to change.
Reminder to everyone - if this whole investigation gets buried by the Trump administration (and his newly minted AG), and the House can't get it subpoenaed, and it isn't leaked by a Mueller staffer, and Pelosi doesn't hire Mueller at the House Special Prosecutor (and ask for any preliminary findings, lol) - then the incoming 2021 president can restart the whole thing and get the unedited report then.
An interesting take from this OP ED that I hadn't considered.
Trump is faced with his own failure after his own failure. By constantly refusing to deliver on his promises -- or worse, for such promises to have the opposite effect -- he's in great danger of losing his base. Coal? Farms? Refunds? Health care? Fucking NAFTA 1.0.0.2 isn't even signed.
The "national security lol" for the Wall, says the OP EDitor, isn't about the Wall. It's about riling up the base, to get re-elected, so that the statute of limitations runs out while he's still in office.
This will not be an easy sell. Remember, Trump's rabid fanbase is pretending. They know they backed a lying loser. And they know votes are secret. Remember last election when people were ashamed to admit they voted for Trump? This might very well be the opposite: people claiming to vote for Trump, while silently exacting revenge.
Unless Trump starts delivering. Hence, "national security lol". Hence, the seemingly irrational, illegal, unConstitutional move purely to keep his base from further eroding.
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House investigation forms up with the target being the NRA's ties with Russia.
Specifically, they want details on how much of the Russian money they got was laundered into with 2016 election.
The fact that the NRA lied about whether their trip to Russia was official/endorsed isn't helping their case.
Oh, i checked Google for her next court hearing date (it's Feb 26 btw, just a week later), and found this gem of an article:
The Spy Who Wasn't
And this one:
Let Me Tell You About My Friend Maria Butina — Who Might Be A Russian Spy
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Threatening the life of a judge is a federal crime and considered obstruction of justice. If Stone thinks he's going to change who is presiding over him with this bullshit he's in for a quick lesson in judiciary process.
And if there are charges brought up regarding the threat, every single federal judge will be his enemy. Threatening a judge in a still functional democracy is one of the dumbest things you can do.