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RandySF

(59,289 posts)
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 10:56 AM Feb 2018

Mueller charges lawyer with lying about interaction with Rick Gates

(CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller has filed a charge against a lawyer for lying to investigators about his interaction with former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates in September 2016.

Alex Van Der Zwaan is expected to plead guilty Tuesday afternoon. The filing is further evidence of Mueller's investigation of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Gates and their work for Russian-allied clients.

He is also accused of lying about the failure to turn over an email communication to the special counsel's office. He was speaking with investigators about his work with Skadden Arps in 2012 when the firm did work for the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice to prepare a report on the trial of Yulia Tymoshenko.

Van Der Zwaan has a plea hearing scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at US District Court in Washington, DC.



https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/20/politics/robert-mueller-rick-gates/index.html

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Mueller charges lawyer with lying about interaction with Rick Gates (Original Post) RandySF Feb 2018 OP
you start at the bottom and work up the food chain, Mueller didn't take down mafia by luck or chance beachbum bob Feb 2018 #1
I think its a matter of time before Manafort flips RandySF Feb 2018 #2
trump is holding presidential pardons...he is so stupid and all those who are encouraging this act beachbum bob Feb 2018 #3
 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
1. you start at the bottom and work up the food chain, Mueller didn't take down mafia by luck or chance
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 11:25 AM
Feb 2018

you keep getting people to turn on each other until they turn on the top dogs

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
3. trump is holding presidential pardons...he is so stupid and all those who are encouraging this act
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 11:43 AM
Feb 2018

FAIL TO REALIZE that accepting a presidential pardon who are ALSO ADMITTING GUILT to the crime you are being pardoned from

In essence, all those pardoned by trump will be admitting to all the criminal charges that would make trump's own impeachment and perhaps even Pence's impeachment 100% likely.

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