Judge rejects Mueller's request for delay in Russian troll farm case
Source: Politico
A federal judge has rejected special counsel Robert Muellers request to delay the first court hearing in a criminal case charging three Russian companies and 13 Russian citizens with using social media and other means to foment strife among Americans in advance of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
In a brief order Saturday evening, U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich offered no explanation for her decision to deny a request prosecutors made Friday to put off the scheduled Wednesday arraignment for Concord Management and Consulting, one of the three firms charged in the case.
The 13 people charged in the high-profile indictment in February are considered unlikely to ever appear in a U.S. court. The three businesses accused of facilitating the alleged Russian troll farm operation the Internet Research Agency, Concord Management, and Concord Catering were also expected to simply ignore the American criminal proceedings.
Last month, however, a pair of Washington-area lawyers suddenly surfaced in the case, notifying the court that they represent Concord Management. POLITICO reported at the time that the move appeared to be a bid to force Muellers team to turn over relevant evidence to the Russian firm and perhaps even to bait prosecutors into an embarrassing dismissal in order to avoid disclosing sensitive information.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/04/mueller-russia-interference-election-case-delay-570627
Judge is appointed by Trump.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)dalton99a
(81,411 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)The accelerating corruption of perhaps the only defense we have left.. the judiciary.
CrispyQ
(36,425 posts)Where is the MSM on this? That's right. They've been busy defending Sarah Huckabee Sanders from an attack on her eye makeup.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts),,,This Should Be An Outrage, But Sadly Congress Dems Won't Fight It, Sad. Tired Of This Shit.
Izzy Blue
(282 posts)Mueller unseals a few indictments Monday morning to really piss off Trump.
Tactical Peek
(1,207 posts)Leghorn21
(13,523 posts)related to this case today. The documents are from the Pacer (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) website.
A small fraction of her post:
In which we find out on April 11, 2018, counsel entered appearances on behalf of one of the defendants, Concord [Caterting] and the Special Counsel discloses:
...counsel sent broad-ranging requests for information to the government. Counsel sought a bill of particulars, demanding 51 categories of information, including details about online platforms the government has discovered, individuals believed to have been involved in charged and uncharged activity, and names of potential witnesses.
requested discovery, including of all statements, recordings, or electronic surveillance of Concord officers and employees,
Attachment B, at 1-3, and, as a predicate to motions practice, information about more than 70 years of American foreign policyeach and every instance from 1945 to present where the U.S. government engaged in operations to interfere with elections and political processes in any foreign country, (emphasis added)
All documents can be seen here:
https://maddogpac.com/blogs/spicy-files/internet-reseach-group-et-al-indictment-updated
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,967 posts)Trying to drag the US through the mud because Putin is muddy.
RockRaven
(14,916 posts)don't know what Mueller knows (they only know their own pieces, not the whole puzzle), which is why they're desperate to know what Mueller has on those he's already charged -- to prepare/coordinate their bullshit to defend those not yet charged.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,967 posts)PSPS
(13,580 posts)dajoki
(10,678 posts)five months. This is where * appointments are leading us.