(UPDATED): Mueller role confirmed in subpoena battle with mystery firm - POLITICO
Something’s up. Turns out it’s Booby protesting the release of info, not the company that’s standing up to his blackmail, bullying , and bluster. Whoever that company may be.
Mueller role confirmed in subpoena battle with mystery firm
Attorneys from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office are the prosecutors locked in a mysterious grand jury subpoena fight that a state-owned foreign company has taken all the way to the Supreme Court, court records now confirm.
A docket unsealed by the U.S. District Court in Washington shows two prosecutors from Mueller’s office, Scott Meisler and Zainab Ahmad, are handling the dispute on behalf of the special counsel.
However, with journalists pressing for more access to the details of the fight, the district court released a docket sheet Wednesday laying out a timeline of the filings in the dispute. With no fanfare, the same court posted a slightly less redacted version of that docket online Thursday.
The new version revealed the names of Meisler and Ahmad, as well as four attorneys for the foreign company: Brian Boone, Ted Kang, Emily Costin and Karl Geercken.On Friday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unsealed a document also naming Boone and Kang as lawyers for the company in that court. The Friday order making that document public also discloses that the opposition to unsealing the records has come from Mueller’s prosecutors, at least in recent weeks
The government’s explanation of the need for some of the more extreme secrecy in the case, such as the deletion of prosecutors’ names and titles from the public record, has not been disclosed. However, in a Supreme Court filing last week, the Justice Department said it believed some more information in court filings there could be released without harming grand jury secrecy
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When the firm took the issue to the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts briefly stayed Howell’s contempt order and the $50,000-a-day financial penalty Howell imposed for defying her order. However, the high court lifted that stay several weeks ago.
Docket sheet link:
https://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/files/FINAL_18gj41_PublicDocket_2...
“...contempt order and the $50,000-a-day financial penalty...”
There’s a shitload of stuff going on that is OUR business that we are not being told. And there’s been no coverage in the msm. (Go figure)
Booby has overstepped his authority. Has there been any mention of this particular wrinkle in the msm about this? I’ve not heard heard much. I knew somebody somewhere told Booby to go pound sand, but nothing about the Supreme Court.
Roger Stone and Carter Page are fighting back and the ‘-vich’ hunt has hit a snag. I hope whoever he’s messing with wipes the courtroom floor up with the old Dimocritic fixer.
BTW does anybody know if he’s rounded up those 13 democracy destroying RUSSIAN!!! telemarketers? How can we feel safe with thugs like that running around. You’d think he would have ‘em rounded up by now, wouldn’t you? They’ll probably show up when Booby gets his records.
UPDATE: found my telemarketers. They’ve fallen on hard times.
RUSSIAN 'TROLL FARM' AT HEART OF MUELLER INVESTIGATION EVICTED FROM HEADQUARTERS AFTER WAVE OF BOMB THREATS
The infamous Internet Research Agency (IRA), dubbed the “troll farm” at the center of Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation into Russia’s election interference, has been evicted from its St. Petersburg headquarters after a series of bomb threats, according to Russian media.
For five straight days, the Russian company was harassed with “fake” bomb threats, leading to the building’s evacuation and the annoyance of other tenants, The Moscow Times reported on Thursday. After a Wednesday morning threat, about 500 people were forced to evacuate from the building.
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The troll farm, which has rebranded as Lakhta-2, apologized for the threats and explained that it had reached an agreement to “terminate” its lease. Another office of the company came under attack in October, with an unknown perpetrator throwing a Molotov cocktail into the building, causing a fire.
An eight-count indictment released last February by special counsel Mueller’s team charged that the IRA had worked since 2014 to “interfere with the U.S political system.” Part of the company’s campaign was allegedly intended to support Donald Trump while also harming Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential race.
The organization used social media advertising, promoted fake news articles and spread misinformation as part of that effort. It also, according to the indictment, staged some political rallies in the United States.
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-troll-farm-mueller-bomb-threats-1313482
Comments
Geez, I wonder who
is doing the bomb threats?
Surely no one associated with our country would harass like that. /sn
dfarrah
Whatever happened
to those indicted Russians that called Muellers bluff and agreed to come to trial and demanded "discovery"?
Could this be what this is all about?
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Isn't that case about the troll farm?
When their lawyer showed up Mueller didn't want to release his information on them because of national security. The judge told him to pound sand and do it anyway. Maybe it's this that has gone to the SC?
Not one of the ads I've seen said who to vote for. The BLM group ads certainly didn't say anything about voting. Nor did the Jesus ones. One said that if you have a problem with masturbation Jesus can help you beat it. I'm serious.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
So Mueller wants a Soviet style secret trial.
Looks like Mueller did not expect push back.
Mr. Mueller seems to think he a
‘Law unto himself’.
phrase
If you say that someone is a law unto himself or herself, you mean that they behave in an independent way, ignoring laws, rules, or conventional ways of doing things.
Some of the landowners were a law unto themselves.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Why do people call him 'Booby'?
I still don't get that.
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
Robert,
I guess.
Thanks, AM, for staying on top of this and providing the cliff notes on calling bullshit to this-bullshit.
With the obligatory apology to Bulls Shitting everywhere.
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
Because he’s got some serious kind of
mental condition that absolutely ‘prevents’ him from recognizing the fact that he cannot manipulate the courts, the news, and people’s minds and it’s is either due to ignorance or some other cognitive defect, including the possibility he’s a conscienceless sociopath.
EDIT: didn’t make any sense so fixed it
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Jeeezus H...
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!