Robert Mueller Refers New Sexual Smear Campaign to the FBI
WASHINGTON — The office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller referred to the FBI an apparent plot involving a lobbyist and conspiracy theorist who had reportedly offered to pay a woman to make sexual misconduct allegations against Mueller.
The Atlantic reported Tuesday that Mueller’s office was alerted to the scheme by journalists who had been researching it. Mueller’s team has been famously tight-lipped throughout its investigation, but the Special Counsel’s office took the matter seriously enough to issue a rare public statement. “When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the Special Counsel, we immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, told reporters on Tuesday.
According to the Atlantic, Jack Burkman, a Republican fringe figure in Washington political circles perhaps best known for leading a widely ridiculed and self-promotional “investigation” into the 2016 murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, had sought to pay an unnamed woman so that she would “make accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment against Robert Mueller.” Instead, the woman reportedly contacted several journalists by email and told them about Burkman’s scheme, claiming that he had offered to pay off her credit card debt and write her a check for $20,000 if she would sign a sworn affidavit alleging sexual misconduct and workplace harassment by Mueller, according to the woman.
The journalist Yashar Ali posted on Twitter what he said was a screenshot of the email sent by the anonymous woman describing the supposed pay-off plot.
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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mueller-sexual-smear-fbi-749640/
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