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Mueller has BRIBERY EXPERTS on team investigating Trump.
Glad to hear it.
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/vba9ax/why-robert-mueller-has-bribery-experts-on-the-team-investigating-trump
As then-candidate Donald Trump pursued a deal for a Trump Tower in Moscow in 2015, his associates floated the idea of offering a penthouse in it to Vladimir Putin as a marketing ploy, according to a BuzzFeed report in late November. That might sound like a bribe, to some observers, even if they never acted on it.
It's just one of many kickback-type situations swirling around Trump and others involved in his campaign. And special counsel Robert Mueller's team has the right expertise to handle these matters as the Russia investigation unfolds.
One of Mueller's senior prosecutors, Andrew Weissmann, was the former chief of the DOJ’s Criminal Fraud division, where he decided anti-bribery policy at a very high level. Another member of his legal team, Greg Andres, oversaw the DOJ’s foreign bribery program.
“[Mueller] brought in expertise in the way these deals are arranged to look very innocuous,” David Montero, author of "Kickback: Exposing the Global Corporate Bribery Network," told VICE News, “Because the thing about bribery deals is they're always arranged to look very legitimate.”
It's just one of many kickback-type situations swirling around Trump and others involved in his campaign. And special counsel Robert Mueller's team has the right expertise to handle these matters as the Russia investigation unfolds.
One of Mueller's senior prosecutors, Andrew Weissmann, was the former chief of the DOJ’s Criminal Fraud division, where he decided anti-bribery policy at a very high level. Another member of his legal team, Greg Andres, oversaw the DOJ’s foreign bribery program.
“[Mueller] brought in expertise in the way these deals are arranged to look very innocuous,” David Montero, author of "Kickback: Exposing the Global Corporate Bribery Network," told VICE News, “Because the thing about bribery deals is they're always arranged to look very legitimate.”
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