FBI Is Investigating Florida Company Where Whitaker Was Advisory-Board Member
Source: The Wall Street Journal.
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FBI Is Investigating Florida Company Where Whitaker Was Advisory-Board Member
Active case is being handled by FBI Miami office; acting attorney general oversees FBI
By Mark Maremont and James V. Grimaldi
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Nov. 9, 2018 4:39 p.m. ET
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting a criminal investigation of a Florida company accused of scamming millions from customers during the period that Matthew Whitaker, the acting U.S. attorney general, served as a paid advisory-board member, according to an alleged victim who was contacted by the FBI and other people familiar with the matter.
The investigation is being handled by the Miami office of the FBI and by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, according to an email sent to the alleged victim last year by...
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SCOOP: Firm with ties to the acting U.S. attorney general is under investigation by the FBI, an agency that is overseen, of course, by -- yes, that's right -- the acting attorney general. w/ @markmaremont
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Here's the email confirming the FBI criminal probe of an alleged scam company with ties to acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker....who now oversees the FBI. w/ @JamesVGrimaldi https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-is-investigating-florida-company-where-whitaker-was-advisory-board-member-1541799564 via @WSJ
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YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)If it was the plot of a novel or movie, critics would slam it for being unbelievable.
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)???
DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)meaning it's doubtful.
louis c
(8,652 posts)No wonder Trump, Kushner and the Trump people are so interested in prison reform. It's in their own self interest.
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,886 posts)FBI Director Wray: Welcome, sir, and I hope your time as Acting Attorney General is
Whitaker: AM I FREE TO LEAVE
Wray: . . . .
Whitaker: I DO NOT CONSENT TO ANY SEARCHES AM I FREE TO LEAVE
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thbobby
(1,474 posts)Crap being drawn to crap. Wherever trump goes, criminals follow. POTUS and company is an organized crime syndicate.
dchill
(38,320 posts)Docreed2003
(16,817 posts)Trump is attempting to appoint a partisan lackey to oversee the Trump investigation, who, conveniently will also be able to oversee his own investigation. Yeah that sounds about right for this administration.
diva77
(7,604 posts)Docreed2003
(16,817 posts)diva77
(7,604 posts)ResistantAmerican17
(3,776 posts)Is probably salivating at the chance to weigh in on this shitshow, squarely on the side of the Cheeto shitgibbon.
RockRaven
(14,782 posts)but I didn't think this was going to be the reason for that. Lordy.
Lordy, Lordy, Lordy. SMH.
maxrandb
(15,188 posts)That fucking organization needs to be treated like a criminal enterprise
RockRaven
(14,782 posts)Comey (also no hero) said of Rosenstein "Rod is a survivor" and did not mean it as a compliment.
They've seen other people get nailed for misrepresenting what was said in a meeting, and they've seen people get nailed for not being sufficiently candid, and they've seen people get blamed for decisions they had nothing to do with. Out of pure self-interest they will document every interaction so they cannot be made the fall guy for something inappropriate later by someone trying to spread blame around for some misdeed.
watoos
(7,142 posts)An honest person would never be hired by Trump, his administration is full of crooks, this guy is just one more.
It appears to me he passed his loyalty, er, job interview.
C_U_L8R
(44,891 posts)mucifer
(23,371 posts)Gothmog
(143,998 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)to be in Trump's cabinet or a member of the senior WH staff?
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)EarthFirst
(2,877 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)I think I can now skip dinner.
hay rick
(7,521 posts)Another graduate of their advisory board is my congressman, Brian Mast. Story here: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/florida-mast-marketing-scandal-236103
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)He is a joke.
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(56,886 posts)The victims of this scam -- which fooled inventors into emptying out their savings for "patent help" that never came -- were flabbergasted to learn that one of the ppl involved was now the acting U.S. attorney general.
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Said one former World Patent Marketing customer who lost $77,000 of Whitaker: Its really upsetting to know that guy will be attorney general. Its so offensive. Its like a stab in the back.
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