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from Ted Lieu and Don Beyer.
Link to tweet
Text for the twitter-deprived:
.@RepDonBeyer & I have made a criminal referral of Jared Kushner to @TheJusticeDept.
Making false statements or omitting material info on SF-86 security form is punishable by up to 5 years in prison. More info at @politico huddle. Here's the letter: https://politi.co/2C7nzAM .
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)So foul are the republican crimes against the truth, justice, honor and the USA that we may need help from The Great White North.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,033 posts)or, an unindicted Bush.
triron
(21,915 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,083 posts)Thank you.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Felix Sater's 2009 sealed, cooperation criminal case files are "unlocked" this year. Are these records unsealed yet?
In 1998, Sater was convicted of fraud in connection to a $40 million penny stock pump and dump scheme conducted by the Russian Mafia[9][10] involving his company White Rock Partners. In return for a guilty plea, Sater agreed to assist the FBI and federal prosecutors as an informant in organized crime.
In 2009, he was sentenced to pay a $25,000 fine and served no prison time. As a result of his assistance, Sater's court records were sealed for 10 years by Loretta Lynch,
........she stated that Sater provided "information crucial to
national security and
the conviction of over 20 individuals,
including those responsible for committing massive financial fraud and
members of La Cosa Nostra."[36][37][38][39]
Felix just sold his Long Island home for $2.3 MILLION last month, February 2019.
All found on Wikipedia
Thought you might want to enlarge on this story. Sater was informing for 11 years!!!!
Working from a 24th-floor office in Manhattan's Trump Tower, Felix Sater spent years trying to line up lucrative deals in the United States, Russia and elsewhere in Europe with Donald Trump's real estate organization.
For much of that time, according to court records and U.S. officials, Sater also worked as a confidential informant for the FBI, and he says U.S. intelligence.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-sater-trump-20170223-story.html
He personally escorted and opened Russian doors for Ivanka in 2006 while being an informant.
Volaris
(10,260 posts)OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Putin invited MBS to Moscow in June, 2016 to "finalize" a few big deals including the sale of 16 nuclear power plants. Wonder when the negotiations began? Nuclear is Iran's only upper hand. And oddly this year, just in time to save Kushner Co from defaulting, a so-called Canadian company with ties to the Middle East buys/leases? Kusner's property and saves the day, while on the way to sign the deal to buy Westinghouse's famed nuclear power division.
Good hell, let us hope Congress is looking into all this before anything nuclear reaches SA
With this knowledge, in addition to MBS's secret visit to Trump Tower, it seems quite possible the Big Deal several countries conspired about, was planned even before Trump announced his bid to run... Or, perhaps it is why he ran? His hail mary pass out of insolvency and potential irrelevency.
Yes, a great movie in deed! action packed with no need for time-killing chase &/or sex scenes.
Just a concerted effort by crazed entitled rich people, extremists, zealots, & emotional zombies hell bent on eternal self-gratification & destruction of all that is good & democratic. Or so it seems
Volaris
(10,260 posts)You know, the more time passes, the more I think Obama might have really been an advocate for imperial america.
Hear me out...he grew up in the age of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and I think maybe he thought that an imperial america could be both good and bad for the world...depending on how it was managed. If he had access to all this (and I can practically gaurantee he did)
How in the hell does his Iran nuclear deal look like anything BUT an imperial counter to SA nuke ambitions, in the same way that the backing of Iraq was an imperial counter to Iran as it existed in 1985. I think he understood the over/under much better than his predecessors, and his intentions were for sure much more Noble, but still...in light of this information, it's kinda hard to see that action on his part completely OUTSIDE an idea of Imperial America(n) Power.
And I would have to agree with him. However he was gonna get there, the government of Iran seems much more inclined to be LESS A MORAL ENEMY at this point, than that family of ruthless barbarians running SA.
opinions on my opinion are welcome, as always.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)SA breaking ground on first nuclear tech facility
https://dailycaller.com/2016/09/06/saudis-buy-16-nuclear-plants-from-the-russians-terrorists-rejoice/
SA launches nuclear plant project amid Khashoggi drama reported June, 2018.
https://www.islamicinvitationturkey.com/mbs-launches-nuclear-plant-project-amid-khashoggi-drama
Whatever Obama's innermost beliefs were/are, the world leaders seem to have known better than to push his tolerance for actions in opposition to American goals.
For decades I have bought into the "end hunger" hope only to watch the quality of the majority of my own countrymen decline. In the past decade, I have known nearly a dozen people that have committed suicide, four of them under 17! And I live in a fairly well off area.
So I could care less about a semantic discussion of who believes what. World leaders/governments have failed for decades to protect and lift the "least of these" and instead have managed to enable global slavery by not securing & monitoring private tranaportation. Imagine the horrors these children & vulnerable adults endure.
We are devolving because about 40 years ago it seems like elections world wide have leaned towards so-called conservative policies of "I have mine, forget social responsibility more military please". Were the elections tampered with? or
Are the I Me My Mine consumption hog humans losing empathy & compassion even common decency the new majority? This is the question that keeps me up at night.
President Obama was a decent man. I pray the world chooses to elect decent people after this brush with its opposite.
Appreciate thr dialog. Peace
McKim
(2,412 posts)Keep talking, your ideas are very important to consider. People have stopped going to church where they used to get some sermons on morality. The screw you, I got mine mentality has lead us to a communal disaster. It is time for we Democrats to make some moral arguments. Jeff Merkley is making those arguments in his senate campaign.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)SA is low on oil hence nuke power & hopes we take Iran.....where theres a huge reserve of oil.
spanone
(135,633 posts)duforsure
(11,882 posts)Over a hundred times? He should get 20-30 just for that alone, or the next one will use it to escape justice too. He needs to be made an example of, not given a free pass.
mopinko
(69,806 posts)foreign government contacts.
mitch96
(13,817 posts)You or me did this we would be in the slammer..... Ahhh yes, the white, rich privilege...
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lastlib
(22,981 posts)Thank you, God, for Ted Lieu! And thank you, Ted Lieu!
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calimary
(80,693 posts)He is a bright light, for sure. Glad hes OURS!
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)Dems are going to screw around and Saudi Arabia is going to lose out on getting nuclear technology, just for peaceful purposes now mind you.
Do I need the sarcasm thingy?
PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)Some people are quick on the trigger.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Every pic I see of Jared Kushner -- I see a smug, condescending man. A man of entitlement and self-cherishing. Is it any wonder that he fits right in with the Trump crime family?
PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)They sure recovered quickly...
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Mr. Evil
(2,747 posts)Volaris
(10,260 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,787 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)not fooled
(5,791 posts)working alongside chimpy + uday & qusay trump, if the world were a true meritocracy.
lindysalsagal
(20,440 posts)<sad trombone>
lark
(23,003 posts)He is a russian repug shill and will do everything to protect drumpf Inc.
watoos
(7,142 posts)but my jury is still out on his role with Mueller. Mueller and Barr have been friends for 30 years, there are some rumors floating around out there. They are not from anyone reliable, but there are rumors. Hey, a guy can hope.
Mr. Evil
(2,747 posts)to make Trump think he was on his side. Mueller and Barr could've cooked this up just for that very reason. For men like them, playing Trump is the easiest task they could ever undertake. Maybe (please, please, please), just maybe.
not fooled
(5,791 posts)but barr's track record of working to get Iran-Contra criminals pardoned makes it difficult to dream that dream.
Mr. Evil
(2,747 posts)There has to be a silver lining somewhere.
Fritz Walter
(4,281 posts)Whether it comes from the House Oversight, Judiciary, Ethics or another committee, Barr should then be required to testify under oath and account for his actions or lack thereof. And no, "executive privilege" should not be applicable.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Much more important to protect the USA, than to protect compromised KGOP republicans with FAKE security cred.
triron
(21,915 posts)OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 5, 2019, 10:57 PM - Edit history (1)
https://dailycaller.com/2016/09/06/saudis-buy-16-nuclear-plants-from-the-russians-terrorists-rejoice/SA launches nuclear plant project amid Khashoggi drama reported June, 2018.
https://www.islamicinvitationturkey.com/mbs-launches-nuclear-plant-project-amid-khashoggi-drama/
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)So helpful & uberlynappreciated.
For those who just post links PLEASE at least post the TWITTER NAME of the tweet author so we can look it up on our smart phones.
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SHRED
(28,136 posts)So there's that judicial system.
Catch2.2
(629 posts)We need more Dems like him!
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)i know Christopher Steele was referred to Justice Dept by Lindsay Graham and Meadows/Jordan did the same for Michael Cohen.
madville
(7,397 posts)From what I remember originally the story was that an aide filled it out and it got submitted prematurely before it was completed, They realized it and turned in an amended version the next day. Proving any ill intent will be a pretty difficult hurdle especially since they self-reported and voluntarily corrected it the next day.
Where I used to work, people screwed up their SF-86s regularly and they would just kick them back and tell people to correct them, add additional info or ask follow up questions. When people did get their clearances revoked it was for purposely omitting stuff like getting arrested for DUIs or domestic violence They would just get fired, never saw anyone actually prosecuted.