Judge Had Absolutely No Sympathy for Mystery Mueller Opponent, Unsealed Orders Show
Source: Law & Crime
by Colin Kalmbacher | 4:25 pm, February 28th, 2019
A federal judge on Thursday released several redacted trial court records in an ongoing legal battle between the mystery foreign company owned by a mystery foreign country and special counsel Robert Mueller.
Spread across six separate orders and 71 extremely-redacted pages, the newly public information reveals the special counsel filed a document in the case thats so hush-hush even the serially secretive and mysterious Mueller nemesis doesnt have access to it.
This document, apparently, was more than enough to convince Chief U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Beryl A. Howell that the foreign companys commercial activities in the United States bear substantially upon Muellers investigation into Russian electoral interference and/or collusion between the Russian Federation and the Trump 2016 campaign.
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To explain: the submission was made solely by the special counsels office without any pretense of sharing it with the opposing party and therefore it was submitted ex parte (one party only). This document was also provided to Judge Howell in a cloistered meeting known in Latinesque legalese as an in camera hearing. Theres no argument from anyone that this is extremely secretive and one-sided.
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/federal-judge-had-absolutely-no-sympathy-for-robert-muellers-mystery-opponent/
sandensea
(21,681 posts)Vlad, is that you? Or was that you, Bibi?
Hard to tell these days.
DBoon
(22,401 posts)sandensea
(21,681 posts)rpannier
(24,341 posts)I'd love it to be them
sandensea
(21,681 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)pages of whatever it is they have to compose and type up - and those papers better be typed PERFECTLY else there could be trouble in court and he like, loses the case because of one typo ARGGHH
Well, I dont know if that ever actually happens, but
Rock steady Mr. Mueller & Co & and all your hard-workin typists-
RESPECT
maxsolomon
(33,431 posts)Can't tell if it's a bank, but it makes sense if it's a bank.
it has to be owned by a foreign Gubmint.
Germany owns 15% of Commerzbank.
Rusher, per Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-owned_enterprises_of_Russia :
Rosselkhozbank 71.9873%
Sberbank of Russia 51% (owned by the Central Bank)
VTB Bank 60.9%
ffr
(22,674 posts)Izzy Blue
(282 posts)?
Russian Troll Farm?
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)That's an expensive coverup.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,593 posts)I have no idea what you are saying. Is this a good thing for the Special Prosecutor or a bad thing?
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)... regarding a filing made months ago, but not released at the time.
From the last paragraph of the article:
They argued that they did not have to respond to the GJ subpoena because of regulations protecting foreign governments from such things (aka sovereign immunity). However, the law in question has exceptions, and the SP convinced Judge Howell that one of them applied to this situation. She ordered the company to comply forthwith. So did the next 3 judges, at the Court of Appeals for the DC federal circuit.
SCOTUS then gave them a brief respite before refusing to grant the mystery company a permanent injunction re: the fines. The company next asked for SCOTUS to grant their petition for a full hearing on whether or not they must comply with the SP's subpoena. That arrived when SCOTUS was heading out for their 4-week break, so they haven't responded yet. Meanwhile the fine meter is running. (Note that when SCOTUS refused to give them a permanent injunction in early January, that likely meant that they were not going to convince them to toss the GJ subpoena.)
Except for it being dragged out, it seems like the SP has the upper hand here.