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FBI investigators visit Robert Hyde's home and office
By Mark Morales and Frank Bivona, CNN
Updated 11:46 AM ET, Thu January 16, 2020
Avon, Connecticut (CNN)FBI investigators went to the home and business of Connecticut congressional candidate Robert Hyde, who has been caught up in the scandal about efforts to remove US Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch from Ukraine on Thursday.
The agents were seen by CNN and their presence was confirmed by a law enforcement official. They were at the home early Thursday morning in Weatogue, Connecticut, before going to Hyde's business in nearby Avon.
Hyde runs both his landscaping company and his campaign headquarters from the office. The investigators did not answer questions as to Hyde's whereabouts or why they wanted to speak with him. No other details were provided.
Text messages show Hyde was involved in efforts to surveil and remove Yovanovitch from her post in Kiev.
This story is breaking and will be updated.
More from Tom Winter NBC News:
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Tom Winter ✔ @Tom_Winter
NBC News has confirmed that FBI agents were at the home and business of Robert Hyde in Connecticut this morning, a senior law enforcement official says.
The official says that they were not conducting a court-authorized search but did not elaborate on the reason for the visit.
MORE DETAILS: A neighbor who spoke to NBC News says the FBI agent was outside Hyde's home before dawn this morning and left around approximately 10:30am this morning. The neighbor did not spot the agent entering Hyde's home.
12:24 PM - Jan 16, 2020
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Shimon Prokupecz ✔ @ShimonPro
FBI investigators went to the home and the business of Robert Hyde on Thursday. The agents were seen by CNN and confirmed by a law enforcement official. They were at the home early Thursday morning in Weatogue, CT before going to Hydes business in Avon, CT.
11:35 AM - Jan 16, 2020
A bit more:
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erica orden ✔ @eorden
NEW: FBI agents visited the home and the business of Robert Hyde Im Connecticut on Thursday. A law-enforcement official said they were at the locations to assist in another investigation, @MarkMorales51 reports.
11:43 AM - Jan 16, 2020
Got me swinging...
intrepidity
(7,307 posts)Hope they find something useful
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)Hmmmm.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,733 posts)Hyde probably is a crazy drunk, but how was he involved with Parnas, and why didn't Parnas chase him off instead of humoring him if he thought he was just a crazy drunk?
MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)by the MFs mobsters to be the fall guy because of his history as a crazy drunk. Sounds nuts, I know, but here we are.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)Hyde was a Trump Hotel barfly, and chummy with several connected people in that ( ) "scene", including Igor Fruhman. Parnas "doesn't drink", per his interview.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)Is this action to aid in the enforcement of law, hinder it, or a little of both?
polichick
(37,152 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)For me, the big question is, how many good people are left in our DoJ?
He who controls the evidence, controls the case(s).
MarcA
(2,195 posts)dem4decades
(11,296 posts)OliverQ
(3,363 posts)triron
(22,006 posts)Duppers
(28,125 posts)Was his permission sought? And is someone going to be fired?
Barr may have been too busy talking with his own attorney today?
malaise
(269,054 posts)Goons falling like ninepins
magicarpet
(14,155 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)Around the necks of Trump, Giuliani, Barr, Pompeo, and Pence.
enid602
(8,620 posts)Well I'll be go to hell! Looks like tRump has yet to perfect his hold on the intelligence community.
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)dalton99a
(81,515 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)they were at the locations to assist in another investigation?
Also NICE!!
BuffaloJackalope
(818 posts)And drinking too much with Republicans in Washington?
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)winstars
(4,220 posts)H2O Man
(73,559 posts)Hyde is in way, way over his head.
chowder66
(9,073 posts)The guy has issues against women.
Texin
(2,596 posts)How would he have known about what the plot was if he wasn't privy to that information? He's too much of a loose cannon and gadfly to have been "read in" to this unless they were eyeing him as a person they could throw into the wood chipper - or point the blame on - if/when this blew up in their faces. They needed a fall guy and I think he was going to be their man.
Actually, he may have been becoming too much of a problem several months ago when he was corralled by the Secret Service and turned over to the authorities, then placed by the county under involuntary psychiatric observation. He may have been sniffing around and being to eager to "serve", and Barr had tRump report him so that he could be picked up and "observed" so they could later discredit him if need be.
gab13by13
(21,359 posts)according to Parnas, he was probably on his 4th or 5th eye opener.
AllyCat
(16,189 posts)On his resume for public office.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)DEEP STATE! PERSECUTION!!! (except spelled perzekusion or some such mangling because it's a four-syllable word).