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Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has gathered evidence that a secret meeting in the Seychelles just before the inauguration of Donald Trump was an effort to establish a back-channel between the incoming administration and the Kremlin apparently contradicting statements made to lawmakers by one of its participants, according to people familiar with the matter.
In January, 2016, Erik Prince, the founder of the private military company Blackwater, met with a Russian official close to President Vladimir Putin, and later described the meeting to congressional investigators as a chance encounter that was not a planned discussion of U.S.-Russia relations.
A witness cooperating with Mueller has told investigators the meeting was set up in advance so that a representative of the Trump transition could meet with an emissary from Moscow to discuss future relations between the two countries, according to the people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
George Nader, a Lebanese-American business who helped organize and attended the Seychelles meeting, has testified on the matter before a grand jury gathering evidence about discussions between the Trump transition team and emissaries of the Kremlin, as part of Muellers investigation into Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 election.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mueller-gathers-evidence-that-2016-seychelles-meeting-was-effort-to-establish-back-channel-to-kremlin/2018/03/07/b6a5fb8c-224b-11e8-94da-ebf9d112159c_story.html?utm_term=.341877f526cc
BigmanPigman
(51,624 posts)Mueller is being extremely thorough. I can see why political analysts think this will go into 2019.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,624 posts)Last edited Wed Mar 7, 2018, 10:29 PM - Edit history (2)
The money laundering is what will most likely nail him though. Mueller hired the attorney who went after Enron , Andrew Weissmann, and others who are fantastic!
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/06/mueller-russia-probe-trump-239163
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/russia-investigators-money-laundering-article-1.3759077
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)It happened before Trump was sworn into office.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Looks like the Prince family is about to take a major hit.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Mueller looking at Encryption Apps being used by Trump and Friends. Appears the Agencies personnel who have either were fired or decided to just walk away,are filling in the blanks.
Always maintain this,you do not bully or screw with certain Agencies, Karma is doing her thing.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)U.S. Marshall's on the way over? Will it be taped?
poboy2
(2,078 posts)dchill
(38,518 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)I had read somewhere that they were meeting in the Seychelles to discuss financing the private construction of nuclear power plants across the Middle East?
Think about that. Why not just give the terrorists in the Middle East a suitcase bomb and tell them to find a target?
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)The news is coming fast and furious!
mcar
(42,372 posts)I'm so happy we have someone of Mueller's caliber staying on top of all this corruption.
NatBurner
(2,640 posts)pretty sure it was rachel, she's been so ahead of the pack it's ridiculous
but yeah, good deal, mueller- connect those fkn dots
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)When you surprisingly find yourself in a set of islands nobody has ever heard of, and just by coincidence, a Russian close to Putin is there at the same time. I bet they just talked sports. How about those Warriors?
CanonRay
(14,112 posts)finally get some payback.
ffr
(22,671 posts)Hassler
(3,389 posts)This war criminal deserves everything coming his way.
Renew Deal
(81,869 posts)dweller
(23,651 posts)improsoned in Thailand? she has video or something?
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)was present at the meeting and spilled the beans to Mueller and before a grand jury.
James48
(4,438 posts)Every single day, another crime is disclosed.
Somebody needs to start a web page of every single criminal violation, whether it be a regulatory violation; a criminal statute, or violation of rule, regulation or law.
At some point, you HAVE to cumulatively be able to point to the extensive crimes, from misuse of the Presidential seal, violation of the Hatch Act, and repeated violations of law like this- and you have to say-Yes, this rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors sufficient tiki impeach.
Bribery.
Blackmail
Obstruction of justice
Hush money to prostitutes
Willful lying to investigators
Tampering with evidence
Violating election campaign finance laws through payoffs to hookers.
My GOD- what a criminal enterprise!