Holy crap, person on Melber says Cohen is Deputy Finance Director for the RNC!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

[Exotica]

1. yep

RNC Announces Additions To RNC Finance Leadership Team

https://gop.com/rnc-announces-additions-to-rnc-finance-leadership-team/

Michael Cohen, National Deputy Chairman

Mr. Cohen is currently the personal attorney to President Donald J. Trump. He served for more than a decade as Executive Vice President Special Counsel to President Trump at the Trump Organization and has sat on the boards of multiple Trump organizations, including Trump Productions, the Eric Trump Foundation, and the Miss Universe Organization. In addition to raising millions of dollars for his campaign, Mr. Cohen has been an active spokesperson and advisor for the President during his interest in seeking office since 2011.

[radical noodle]

38. Oh snap!

We may be getting way more than we originally thought.

[Exotica]

39. Cohen has SO MUCH dirt on Trump, this is HUGE

[radical noodle]

41. Indeed...

and I think Cohen has his own dirt as well. I'd love to see him in orange.

[Exotica]

42. Hopefully the RNC is now brought in for the legal beatdown too

The RW is one giant cancerous blob in need of some RICO chemo.

[Volaris]

46. If If he funnels dirty money to congressional candidates,

How is the republican party NOT legally considered a Corrupt Organization?

[calimary]

51. Exactamente!

“Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!” - Walter Scott

[lunasun]

49. Books_Tea _Alone mentioned this on a locked thread . I didn't know him as anything but Trump's

lawyer ! ...and as mentioned in order for this to go down today there had to be an airtight reason to do the no knock raid

[MontanaMama]

2. I heard that too!

Thought I was mistaken..for a minute there. Oh my goodness...Cohen should be crapping his pants tonight. Unbelievable.

[Matthew28]

3. The republican

party is guilty of high crimes against this country. That is why they defend trump!

[wiggs]

4. Lots o' theories out there about overseas money coming to campaigns through RNC and NRA. RICO. nt

[Leghorn21]

5. Oh, and that Broidy guy, too!

“I am delighted to announce the addition of these longtime friends of the Party and supporters of this administration to our Finance leadership team,” said Chairwoman McDaniel. “Elliott Broidy, Michael Cohen, and Louis DeJoy will serve as National Deputy Finance Chairmen”


Ain’t heard nuthin good about this Broidy character yet...!!

https://gop.com/rnc-announces-additions-to-rnc-finance-leadership-team/

[procon]

14. Wasn't Broidy already linked in Mueller's investigation? nt

[Leghorn21]

21. Too amped for a thorough search, pro, but from March 3:

Elliot Broidy, a republican donor, and his wife Robin Rosenzweig, discussed setting up a consulting contract with Jho Low, who is at the center of the 1MDB scandal.

The contract proposed a $75 million fee for Broidy and his wife if they could get the Justice Department to drop its probe into 1MDB.

The Wall Street Journal reviewed a cache of emails which revealed the connections.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/03/1mdb-trump-ally-elliot-broidy-tries-to-get-75-million-to-end-us-probe.html

dirty dog

[0rganism]

6. would the FBI raid the RNC offices?

that would be both fully appropriate and fully yolo at the same time
shit just got real interesting today

[ToxMarz]

30. The RNC is a private non profit corporation. It is not established by the Constiution or afforded

special consideration. It is not accountable to the electorate. It is accountable to the Government and the law.

[spanone]

7. Oooohh lala...

[procon]

8. So, was Cohen the Russian pipeline connection to channelling money into the RNC?

Did Russian dark money finance the RNCs anti-Hillary campaign and pay to fuel the fire of fake news propaganda? Did dirty money from Russia help to elect Republicans?

[Wwcd]

23. That's how I see it too. He has to have some deep ties to the money that flowed from Deutsch/Cyprus

..Russia, NRA, Middle East, Ukraine & the shock will be when its revealed who all in the US was connected to the RNC money flow.

[They_Live]

40. Didn't Wilbur Ross do something in Cyprus...?

A laundromat of some kind?

[Exotica]

44. Cyrpus is Russian mob banking central.

Cyprus enforces Russian mafia law

https://euobserver.com/justice/131327

Cyprus is helping Russian officials to hush up a mafia scam and to hunt down the people who exposed it.

Its justice ministry, last week, invited Russian sleuths to conduct a joint raid with Cypriot police on the offices, in Nicosia, of lawyers acting on behalf of Bill Browder.

Browder is the former employer of Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian auditor who, in 2007, uncovered a huge tax scam by Russian officials acting in league with an organised crime syndicate, the Kluyev Group.

When Magnitsky went public, his office was raided, he was jailed, and later killed in prison. The stolen money was never recovered.

Browder has campaigned for EU sanctions against the killers and for member states to seize the loot, which was, in part, laundered in European banks.

Back in 2012, he gave 133 pages of documents, seen by this website, to Cyprus' anti-corruption agency, Mokas, showing how the Kluyev gang moved $31 million of the stolen money out of Russia via Cypriot banks: Alpha Bank; Cyprus Popular Bank; FBME Bank; Privatbank International; and Komercbanka.

snip

[radical noodle]

48. Yes at a bank in Cyprus

but I don't know the details. I just remember it from a Rachel Maddow show.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. Cohen travelled to Russia in Aug or Sep 2016 (after tRump nominated) reported on DU. . . . nt

[procon]

33. Ding Dong, the witch is dead, can somebody please tell Trump its game over? nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

35. Turns out it was Prague (close)

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/trump-europe-russia-travel-281134

Investigators probe European travel of Trump associates

Questions linger about 2016 trips by Donald Trump Jr., Carter Page, Michael Cohen and other Trump associates.

By JOSH MEYER

12/06/2017 05:06 AM EST

Michael Cohen traveled three times to Europe last year, though he strongly denies the claim in a controversial dossier on President Donald Trump’s Russia connections that he met secretly with a Russian official in Prague.

Congressional investigators are scrutinizing trips to Europe taken last year by several associates of President Donald Trump, amid concern they may have met with Kremlin-linked operatives as part of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Several people close to then-candidate Trump visited Europe during and after the campaign, including his son Donald Trump Jr., Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and foreign policy advisers Carter Page, George Papadopoulos and Jeffrey Gordon. Their known destinations include London, Paris, Budapest and Athens.

[yardwork]

36. Trump was blathering on about this time period during his meltdown today.

[uponit7771]

56. This is my guess, Russia has dirt on all of the KGOP and that's why they back Red Don still

[Wwcd]

9. Dang, Mueller goes straight for the head of the beast

RNC Finance must know where all the laundered foreign money receipts are, ya think?

I believe a lot of entities are financed thru the RNC

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. This isn't Mueller's doing - he referred the investigation of Cohen to the U.S. Attorney

for the Southern District of New York.

[bluestarone]

17. But he (Mueller) did find it. Am i right about that?

Then referred it? or am i wrong?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. It sounds like he found some evidence in the course of the overall investigation

that suggested Cohen might have been up to no good, but because whatever it was didn't seem related to the Russia investigation he turned it over to SDNY.

[yardwork]

37. We don't know that Mueller didn't see a connection to the Russian investigation.

Mueller can still continue his own investigation.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

43. Also, some of the talking heads on MSNBC are now saying that the reason for

the referral could have been for jurisdictional reasons and not because the evidence is unrelated to the Russia investigation. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. It could be almost anything.

[Exotica]

53. yep, I always take a wait and see stance, as I am positive they are not leaving

ANYTHING to chance. The stakes are too high.

[yardwork]

54. Remember that Trump can only pardon for federal crimes.

Mueller has been careful to involve states' attorneys general.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

55. That's not what I'm talking about. Mueller referred the Cohen investigation

to other federal investigators in the federal southern district of New York. It has nothing to do with any state investigation, which might also be ongoing.

[Wwcd]

24. Yes. Mueller's Super Sense caught the data & referred it to NY

Taking down the mob has evolved into a broad united effort at this point.

[VOX]

20. Give Mueller credit for an assist on this one.

Just joshing! But, yeah.

[world wide wally]

47. By the book

[Wellstone ruled]

10. As well as

Executive Vice President of Trump Organization.

[Wwcd]

26. Wow, kind of an important guy to have around! Trump Org is going to be busted!

Early on in the investigation, it was said that Mueller was approaching it from a RICO direction.

That was shortly after he hired Weissmann, who was in part responsible for the prosecution of ENRON.
He also oversaw investigations into VW.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2017-05-31/senior-justice-official-said-to-jump-to-russia-probe-team

DOJ’s Weissmann Joining Mueller’s Russia Investigation Team, Sources Say

By Tom Schoenberg
May 31, 2017

SNIP

As the head of the fraud section in the Obama administration, Weissmann’s specialties have included overseeing investigations into corporate wrongdoing and foreign corruption -- including probes into Volkswagen AG over diesel-cheating, global banks over market manipulation and Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras over corrupt payments.
He also started a pilot program that offered companies incentives to self-report possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits bribing foreign officials.

Quite the bio on Weissmann & Mueller's newest hires at that time

[Wellstone ruled]

34. Oh yes,lovin it.

Sure sounds like the State of New York wants their piece of the Pie also. Think the New York has had enough of this Criminal Operation..

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Yes

and she suggested that they have all basically put their head in the sand about what is going on around him, how this is all an "albatross" around his neck, and how they should consider replacing him ASAP - especially since this is a midterm elections year.

[Tatiana]

13. Melber's entire show was exceptional.

Caught most of it in the car on the commute home.

Good Lord. What the HELL has this thug done?

[TheDebbieDee]

16. Maybe Mueller is following the money trail from Oligarch DeutscheBank accounts

to the NRA to the election campaign coffers of republican candidates...

Or maybe their campaigns were financed directly by Russian oligarchs...

[babylonsister]

18. 4/3/2017: Trump's personal lawyer will serve as key RNC finance executive

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-rnc-finance-executive-2017-4

[flibbitygiblets]

22. I"m starting to think the $130K payment to Daniels violated campaign finance rules, AND

Cohen is Finance chairman at the RNC. So that's a particularly big crime, of which Tronald J. Dump broadcast to reporters onboard AF1 last week.

[Books_Tea_Alone]

25. This is why what happened today is a big deal n/t

[emulatorloo]

27. Yes indeed, it is a very big deal n/t

[dlk]

28. All of the Shady Characters are in Bed Together

Trump is the Republican Party and the Republican Party is Trump.

[chuckstevens]

29. Follow the Russian money!!!!!!!!!

[Thekaspervote]

32. And.. and with this being state Rico dotard is powerless to pardon cohen

[Enoki33]

45. I believe its Federal.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

60. Not true; it was referred to the federal district in New York.

It's still a federal matter but it's outside the scope of Mueller's investigation.

[Kablooie]

50. I read that the raid on Cohen wasn't coming from Mueller.

It was because of a different, New York based issue.

[triron]

58. Yeah but Mueller is the one who showed the 'complaint' to Rosenstein

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

59. That's correct. Mueller apparently found evidence of possible crimes

that were not part of the Russia investigation, so he referred the Cohen investigation to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the federal jurisdiction where Cohen's office and home are located and where the possible crimes would have been committed.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

52. Maybe...

this is how they're going to expose congressmen who knowingly took Russia supplied NRA money. I had this thought. Thought I'd type it out quick before I forgot it. If it's mentioned above...then I'm glad more the just me are thinking about it. Remember the big GOP enclave that was taped by a cell phone where Paul Ryan admonished everyone to "keep quiet about their shared secret...other wise we all go down?" or something to that effect? Come on big money....as they say on wheel of fortune.

[triron]

57. I can't absorb all this.