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DonViejo

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Tue Nov 13, 2018, 01:32 PM Nov 2018

The Professor At The Heart Of The Trump-Russia Probe Wants To Testify Before The Senate,... [View all]

Source: BuzzFeed News



The Professor At The Heart Of The Trump-Russia Probe Wants To Testify Before The Senate, A Lawyer Claims

“We are working towards his appearance,” a lawyer closely associated with Joseph Mifsud wrote in an email to BuzzFeed News.

Alberto Nardelli
BuzzFeed News Europe Editor

Reporting From
London

Posted on November 13, 2018, at 12:05 p.m. ET

LONDON — A lawyer closely associated with Joseph Mifsud claims that the Maltese professor, who allegedly delivered word of Hillary Clinton’s stolen emails to Donald Trump's campaign, is willing to testify to the US Senate.

Mifsud disappeared after he was identified as the unnamed professor alleged by FBI investigators in court documents unsealed in October 2017 to have told Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos that the Russians had “dirt” on Clinton in the form of thousands of emails, months before the Democrats themselves were aware that their computer system had been hacked.

He has not been seen in public since November that year. His former girlfriend in Ukraine says he disappeared, prosecutors in Italy investigating a decade-old case couldn’t locate him, and US investigators have complained they weren’t able to interrogate the professor thoroughly when he was last in the US in February 2017. Democratic National Committee lawyers even suggested he may be dead. But in an email to BuzzFeed News sent on Monday, Stephan Roh, a 51-year-old Swiss lawyer with a long history of dealings with Mifsud, wrote, “Prof Mifsud is to testify in front of the US Senate — we are working towards his appearance.”

Spokespeople for the Senate intelligence committee declined to comment, and BuzzFeed News has been unable to independently verify this claim.



Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/albertonardelli/joseph-mifsud-senate-trump-russia

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