Adam Schiff Hires a Former Prosecutor to Lead the Trump Investigation
Source: New Yorker
Jeffrey Toobin
Representative Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has hired a veteran prosecutor with experience fighting Russian organized crime to lead his investigation of the Trump Administration. Last month, according to a committee source, Daniel Goldman, who served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York from 2007 to 2017, joined the committees staff as a senior adviser and the director of investigations.
The hiring of Goldman, who will be joined by two other former federal prosecutors on Schiffs staff, underlines Schiffs decision to conduct an aggressive investigation of the Trump campaigns ties to Russia during the 2016 Presidential campaign. In the rough division of labor among the various committees in the House of Representatives, Schiffs panel is tackling the most provocative and, so far, most elusive subject related to the President: whether so-called collusion occurred between the Trump campaign and Moscow. In public comments, Schiff has suggested that Trumps interest as a private citizen in building a tower in Moscow led him to curry favor with Vladimir Putin, the Russian President. American intelligence agencies long ago concluded that the Russian government made significant efforts, through the hacking of e-mails and use of social media, to help elect Trump over Hillary Clinton. The question of whether the Trump campaign facilitated, assisted, or knew about these efforts has been at the heart of the investigation by the special counsel, Robert Muellerand will also be central to Schiffs inquiry.
Goldman seems well suited to lead this effort. As deputy chief of the organized-crime section of the Manhattan U.S. Attorneys office, Goldman supervised the prosecution of more than thirty defendants accused of racketeering, gambling, and money laundering. During his decade in the office, Goldman convicted individuals associated with Russian organized crime of securities fraud and health-care fraud, and convicted leading figures in the Genovese crime family of racketeering and murder.
One of Schiffs previous committee hires drew a critical comment from the President. Last month, Schiff hired Abigail C. Grace, who served as an Asia policy staffer on the National Security Council during the early part of the Trump Administration. In response, President Trump tweeted that the Democrats were going nuts and that Schiff was stealing people who work at the White House. In response, Schiff pointed out that congressional committees often employ individuals with experience in the executive branch.
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WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)Alright, in my dreams... o.k.?
Lonestarblue
(9,971 posts)Trumps head truly would explode, and it would be a fantastic sight to see. Im smiling as I contemplate the notion.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)So I hope he would explode while at Mar-A-Lardo.
erronis
(15,241 posts)the orang-u-tan has finished flinging his poo around.
GetRidOfThem
(869 posts)catrose
(5,065 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)on Russia, if I'm not mistaken. So, him getting fired was a double gold star for Trump with Putin.
WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)On The Americans. Or is it more like Stan?
Terrific show, if anyone here has never seen it. It is the BEST portrayal of the 1980s that I've ever seen.
agingdem
(7,845 posts)the rest yes...
WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)"If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."
agingdem
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hiring Comey would lift trump to a whole new level of out of control raging insanity...worth it...also Preet Bharara would make a fabulous addition as well
WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 5, 2019, 03:22 PM - Edit history (1)
ffr
(22,669 posts)OMGWTF
(3,951 posts)Reagan -- I like kicking Russa's ass.
Trump -- I prefer to lick it.
Maxheader
(4,372 posts)You and dan should have lots to talk about...traitor...
jxla
(201 posts)DirtEdonE
(1,220 posts)And others - this shit is going to get serious quickly. Then we're going to see what this country is really made of.
One of my chief fears is this traitor motherfucker will do anything to save his worthless ass up to and including handing us over to pootin. I mean trump doing a 9/11 dick cheney stand-down to disrupt the chain of command long enough for pootin to finish his takeover.
It might sound far-fetched but I'm serious. I put NOTHING past this traitor motherfucker and even less past pootin.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)One of the things that keeps me up at night is this: He has long wanted and discussed how to implement martial law. He could create a situation where he declares an actual national emergency in which he can call for that. Wide and sweeping powers are granted to the executive under such circumstances -- including suspending the vote.
Think about that for a minute.
Ambien, anyone ?
duforsure
(11,885 posts)About his being a victim , and he's innocent, but everyone else are corrupt, and liars, and rigging the system against him he'll claim, but the truth is we've been victimized by him and the republicans, and they are corrupt liars, and they aren't innocent at all, they're criminals.That's also why they will be voted out of office soon for allowing this to happen to us in this country. They just thought the Mid Terms were really bad.
swag
(26,487 posts)moonseller66
(430 posts)(and apologies in advance in case)
with tongue firmly in cheek,
I can't wait until the Schiff hits the Tan.
DirtEdonE
(1,220 posts)That's not offensive. That's funny.
The "tan" is the one who's offensive.