NDA lifted for FBI informant----Uranium One

[Pavlov]

So the US attorneys didn't want to subject a brain cancer patient with memory issues to cross examination.

This will put Obama in front of a firing squad for sure!

[TSA]

Top Nuclear Official Suggests Obama Admin Wasn’t Totally Straightforward On Uranium One Deal

The current chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said that one of her Obama-appointed predecessors’ responses to Congress on a key aspect of the Uranium One deal did not capture the intricacies of the matter.

“I would note that, as your letter makes clear, the responses you have received have not fully depicted the complexity of this issue,” NRC chairwoman Kristine Svinicki said in response to a question from Wyoming Republican Sen. John Barrasso during a Wednesday Senate hearing.

Barrasso wrote to the Obama administration in 2010, expressing concerns that the Uranium One deal would allow Russian interests to export uranium abroad. Obama-appointed NRC chairman Gregory Jaczko responded in 2011, downplaying Barrasso’s concerns by noting that the company would need an export license.

“I specifically raised concerns about future exports of U.S. uranium by Uranium One,” Barrasso said in the hearing. “I believe the Obama administration’s response to my letter was at best misleading.”

Barrasso expanded his investigation into the 2010 Obama administration decision to approve the sale of Uranium One to a subsidiary controlled by Rostam, Russia’s state-owned nuclear company.

The chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works asked the Energy Department and NRC for do ents related to the Obama administration’s response to his 2010 letter.

Barrasso also said he had evidence the Energy Department misled him on their role in the approval of uranium exports. He asked both agencies for do ents to find out if he was intentionally misled.

“Uranium One did not need a specific NRC license to export U.S. uranium,” Barrasso said. “Instead, Uranium One only needed to be, and later was, listed as a supplier on a transport company’s NRC export license.”

Svinicki said the NRC would address Barrasso’s concerns and “depict it in context and more accurately than the responses you have received.” Svinicki also sat on the NRC during the Obama administration, but was a Bush administration appointee.

The Uranium One deal gave Russian interests control of one-fifth of U.S. uranium production capacity at the time, and became an anchor around the Clinton campaign in the 2016 election.

As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton sat on a federal board that made recommendations on approving foreign business deals. Though her campaign rejected accusations donations to the Clinton Foundation played any role in the matter.

The New York Times covered the deal extensively in 2015, noting how donations poured into the Clinton Foundation from individuals connected with the deal. TheNYT also noted how Russians were able to export U.S. uranium without an NRC-approved export license.

The Hill reignited the controversy in October when it reported that the Uranium One deal was the target of a Russian bribery scheme.

FBI agents also “obtained an eyewitness account — backed by do ents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow,” The Hill reported.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/13/to...nium-one-deal/

[boutons_deux]

"during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body"

what govt body?

was Hillary's body the only body on that govt body?

was that govt body the only body involved in the U-1 decision?

[boutons_deux]

Prosecutors ask FBI agents for info on Uranium One deal

the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, known as CFIUS, approved the deal by a unanimous vote, according to public reports.

Clinton was just one member of the nine member CFIUS by virtue of her role as Secretary of State.

The other eight members of CFIUS came from Treasury, Homeland Security, Commerce, Defense, Energy, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Office of Science & Technology, and the Justice Department.

Defenders of the deal point out that the Russians don't have a license to export the uranium out of the U.S., and that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission found no risk to national security.

Clinton has said she was not involved in the deliberations and played no role in the decision.

Jose Fernandez, a former assistant secretary of state, told the Times that he represented the department on the committee, and that "Mrs. Clinton never intervened with me on any C.F.I.U.S. matter." He did not respond to a request for comment by NBC News.

A spokesman for Hillary Clinton did not answer whether she was ever briefed on the Uranium One deal.

"At every turn this storyline has been debunked on the merits,"

said the spokesman, Nick Merrill.

"This latest iteration is simply more of the right doing Trump's bidding for him to distract from his own Russia problems,

which are real and a grave threat to our national security."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pr...eal/ar-BBH6WIH

So liar Trash is ordering racist, compromised Russian tool Sessions to go after Trash's enemies, as Pootin-fellator Trash and his big mafiya are investigated for numerous crimes going back many years,

America is ed and un ably in permanent decline.

[TSA]

Prosecutors ask FBI agents for info on Uranium One deal

the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, known as CFIUS, approved the deal by a unanimous vote, according to public reports.

Clinton was just one member of the nine member CFIUS by virtue of her role as Secretary of State.

The other eight members of CFIUS came from Treasury, Homeland Security, Commerce, Defense, Energy, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Office of Science & Technology, and the Justice Department.

Defenders of the deal point out that the Russians don't have a license to export the uranium out of the U.S., and that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission found no risk to national security.

Clinton has said she was not involved in the deliberations and played no role in the decision.

Jose Fernandez, a former assistant secretary of state, told the Times that he represented the department on the committee, and that "Mrs. Clinton never intervened with me on any C.F.I.U.S. matter." He did not respond to a request for comment by NBC News.

A spokesman for Hillary Clinton did not answer whether she was ever briefed on the Uranium One deal.

"At every turn this storyline has been debunked on the merits,"

said the spokesman, Nick Merrill.

"This latest iteration is simply more of the right doing Trump's bidding for him to distract from his own Russia problems,

which are real and a grave threat to our national security."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pr...eal/ar-BBH6WIH

So liar Trash is ordering racist, compromised Russian tool Sessions to go after Trash's enemies, as Pootin-fellator Trash and his big mafiya are investigated for numerous crimes going back many years,

America is ed and un ably in permanent decline.

Prosecutors ask FBI agents for info on Uranium One deal

On the orders of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Justice Department prosecutors have begun asking FBI agents to explain the evidence they found in a now dormant criminal investigation into a controversial uranium deal that critics have linked to Bill and Hillary Clinton, multiple law enforcement officials told NBC News.

The interviews with FBI agents are part of the Justice Department's effort to fulfill a promise an assistant attorney general made to Congress last month to examine whether a special counsel was warranted to look into what has become known as the Uranium One deal, a senior Justice Department official said.

At issue is a 2010 transaction in which the Obama Administration allowed the sale of U.S. uranium mining facilities to Russia's state atomic energy company. Hillary Clinton was secretary of state at the time, and the State Department was one of nine agencies that agreed to approve the deal after finding no threat to U.S. national security.

A senior law enforcement official who was briefed on the initial FBI investigation told NBC News there were allegations of corruption surrounding the process under which the U.S. government approved the sale. But no charges were filed.

As the New York Times reported in April 2015, some of the people associated with the deal contributed millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation. And Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 for a Moscow speech by a Russian investment bank with links to the transaction.

Hillary Clinton has denied playing any role in the decision by the State Department to approve the sale, and the State Department official who approved it has said Clinton did not intervene in the matter. That hasn't stopped some Republicans, including President Trump, from calling the arrangement corrupt — and urging that Clinton be investigated.

In a letter to Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd said Justice Department lawyers would make recommendations to Sessions about whether an investigation should be opened or expanded, or whether a special counsel should be appointed to probe a number of issues of concern to Republicans.

In recent weeks, FBI agents who investigated the case have been asked by Justice Department prosecutors to describe the results of their probe. The agents also have been asked if there was any improper effort to squash a prosecution, the law enforcement sources say.

The senior Justice Department official said the questions were part of an effort by the Sessions team to get up to speed on the controversial case, in the face of allegations from Congressional Republicans that it was mishandled.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...e-deal-n831436

[boutons_deux]

"allegations from Congressional Republicans that it was mishandled"

is there any EVIDENCE from those Repugs that it was mishandled, or just faith-based, political witch-hunting and deflecting from investigation of Trash and his mafiya?

[TSA]

[Pavlov]

Strike what, TSA?

What are you saying is going to happen with your Chris meme?

[Chucho]

Strike what, TSA?

What are you saying is going to happen with your Chris meme?

They really need a Kyle Griffin-esque Twitter to tell them how to think.

[Pavlov]

They really need a Kyle Griffin-esque Twitter to tell them how to think.

He's got Q and ar15.com.

[TSA]

FBI informant gathered years of evidence on Russian push for US nuclear fuel deals, including Uranium One, memos show

An FBI informant gathered extensive evidence during his six years undercover about a Russian plot to corner the American uranium market, ranging from corruption inside a U.S. nuclear transport company to Obama administration approvals that let Moscow buy and sell more atomic fuels, according to more than 5,000 pages of do ents from the counterintelligence investigation.

The memos, reviewed by The Hill, conflict with statements made by Justice Department officials in recent days that informant William Campbell's prior work won't shed much light on the U.S. government's controversial decision in 2010 to approve Russia's purchase of the Uranium One mining company and its substantial U.S. assets.

Campbell do ented for his FBI handlers the first illegal activity by Russians nuclear industry officials in fall 2009, nearly an entire year before the Russian state-owned Rosatom nuclear firm won Obama administration approval for the Uranium One deal, the memos show.

Campbell, who was paid $50,000 a month to consult for the firm, was solicited by Rosatom colleagues to help overcome political opposition to the Uranium One purchase while collecting FBI evidence that the sale was part of a larger effort by Moscow to make the U.S. more dependent on Russian uranium, contemporaneous emails and memos show.

"The attached article is of interest as I believe it highlights the ongoing resolve in Russia to gradually and systematically acquire and control global energy resources," Rod Fisk, an American contractor working for the Russians, wrote in a June 24, 2010, email to Campbell.

The email forwarded an article on Rosatom's efforts to buy Uranium One through its ARMZ subsidiary. Fisk also related information from a conversation with the Canadian executives of the mining firm about their discomfort with the impending sale.

"I spoke with a senior Uranium One Executive," Fisk wrote Campbell, detailing his personal history with some of the company's figures. "He said that corporate Management was not even told before the announcement [of the sale] was made.

"There are a lot of concerns," Fisk added, predicting the Canadians would exit the company with buyouts once the Russians took control. Fisk added the premium price the Russians were paying to buy a mining firm that in 2010 controlled about 20 percent of America's uranium production seemed "strange."

At the time, Campell was working alongside Fisk as an American consultant to Rosatom's commercial sales arm, Tenex.

But unbeknownst to his colleagues, Campbell also was serving as an FBI informant gathering evidence that Fisk, Tenex executive Vadim Mikerin and several others were engaged in a racketeering scheme involving millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks, plus extortion and money laundering.

Justice Department officials confirmed the emails and do ents gathered by Campbell, saying they were in the possession of the FBI, the department's national security division and its criminal division at various times over the last decade. They added that Campbell's work was valuable enough that the FBI paid him nearly $200,000, mostly for reimbursements over six years, but that the money also included a check for more than $51,000 in compensation after the final convictions were secured.

The information he gathered on Uranium One was more significant to the counterintelligence aspect of the case that started in 2008 than the eventual criminal prosecutions that began in 2013, they added.

Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said Monday that the agency plans to brief members of Congress next week on Campbell's work, the counterintelligence investigation into Russian uranium and the nuclear bribery case. Some issues related to the case are also being reviewed by senior Justice officials, she added.

"The Department of Justice has authorized the confidential informant to disclose to the chairmen and ranking members of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, as well as staff, any information or do ents he has concerning alleged corruption or bribery involving transactions in the uranium market. Until the informant publicly speaks to what he knew or knows about these matters, we are unable to respond further," she said.

Campbell's undercover work helped FBI counterintelligence chronicle a Russian uranium strategy modeled after Moscow's success in creating natural gas monopolies in eastern Europe that strengthened Russia's economy and geopolitical standing after the Cold War, the officials said.

Part of the goal was to make Americans more reliant on Russian uranium before a program that converted former Soviet warheads into U.S. nuclear fuel expired in 2013, according to do ents and interviews. Russia's ambitions included building a uranium enrichment facility on U.S. soil, the do ents show.

The FBI task force supervising Campbell since 2008 watched as the Obama administration made more than a half dozen decisions favorable to the Russians' plan, which ranged from approving the sale of Uranium One to removing Rosatom from export restrictions and making it easier for Moscow to win billions in new commercial uranium sales contracts. The favorable decisions occurred during a time when President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were pursuing a public "reset" to improve relations with Moscow, a plan that fell apart after Russia invaded Ukraine.

Campbell also produced leads for the FBI about su ious activity inside Iran's and South Africa's nuclear industries, the do ents show.

And most importantly, it developed concrete evidence that Tenex - at its Russian leadership's behest - had engaged in a massive racketeering scheme. That evidence led to indictments in 2014 and the convictions of several figures in 2015.

The defendants who pled guilty included Mikerin, the very man Russia sent to the United States to lead its uranium strategy, as well as the head of the American trucking company that moved Russia's uranium around the United States.

Multiple congressional committees recently got permission from the Justice Department to interview Campbell after The Hill reported last month the existence of his informant work.

Lawmakers want to know what the FBI did with the evidence Campbell gathered in real time and whether it warned Obama and top leaders before they made the Russia-favorable decisions, like the Uranium One deal.

Since Campbell's iden y emerged in recent days, there have been several statements by Justice officials, both on the record and anonymously, casting doubt on the timing and value of his work, and specifically his knowledge about Uranium One.

The more than 5,000 pages of do ents reviewed by The Hill directly conflict with some of the Justice officials' accounts.

For instance, both Attorney General Jeff Sessions in testimony last week and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in a letter to the Senate last month tried to suggest there was no connection between Uranium One and the nuclear bribery case. Their argument was that the criminal charges weren't filed until 2014, while the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' (CFIUS) approval of the Uranium One sale occurred in October 2010.

"The way I understand that matter is that the case in which Mr. Mikerin was convicted was not connected to the CFIUS problem that occurred two to three years before," Sessions testified to the House Judiciary Committee last week, echoing Rosenstein's letter from a few weeks earlier.

But investigative records show FBI counterintelligence recorded the first illicit payments in the bribery/kickback scheme in November 2009, a year before the CFIUS approval.

Campbell also relayed detailed information about criminal conduct throughout 2010, including the coordinates for various money laundering drops, according to his FBI debriefing reports. The evidence Campbell gathered indicated Mikerin's corruption scheme was being directed by and benefitting more senior officials with Rosatom and Tenex back in Russia, the records show, a claim U.S. officials would make in court years later.

"There is zero doubt we had evidence of criminal activity before the CFIUS approval and that Justice knew about it through [the natural security division]," said a source with direct knowledge of the investigation.

Republican members of Congress have been angered by the Justice Department's first answers because they conflict with the evidence already gathered in their probe.

"Attorney General Sessions seemed to say that the bribery, racketeering and money laundering offenses involving Tenex's Vadim Mikerin occurred after the approval of the Uranium One deal by the Obama administration. But we know that the FBI's confidential informant was actively compiling incriminating evidence as far back as 2009," Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) told The Hill.

"It is hard to fathom how such a transaction could have been approved without the existence of the underlying corruption being disclosed. I hope AG Sessions gets briefed about the CI and gives the Uranium One case the scrutiny it deserves," added DeSantis, whose House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee is one of the investigating panels.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a similar rebuke last week to Rosenstein, saying the deputy attorney general's first response to the committee "largely missed the point" of the congressional investigations.

"The essential question is whether the Obama Justice Department provided notice of the criminal activity of certain officials before the CFIUS approval of the Uranium One deal and other government decisions that enabled the Russians to trade nuclear materials in the U.S.," Grassley said.

Flores said Sessions stands by his testimony. "The Attorney General's testimony is accurate. The criminal case in which Mikerin was convicted and the factual and legal requirements needed to make that case did not address the CFIUS matter," the Justice spokeswoman said.

Similar misinformation surfaced last week in articles by Reuters and Yahoo News in which officials were quoted as casting doubt that Campbell had any information about the Uranium One deal, because Tenex was a different division of Rosatom than the ARMZ subsidiary that bought the mining firm.

But Campbell's FBI informant file shows Uranium One came up several times in 2010 as the sale was pending, partly because Tenex was Rosatom's commercial arm and would be charged with finding markets for the new uranium being mined and enriched both in the United States and abroad.

Campbell himself was directly solicited by his colleagues to help overcome opposition to the Uranium One deal, the FBI informant files show. In an Oct. 6, 2010, email with the subject line "ARMZ + Uranium One," Fisk forwarded a news article outlining Republican efforts to derail the sale.

"The referenced article may present a very good opportunity for Sigma [Campbell's company] to try and remove the opposing influences, if that is something you can do," Fisk wrote the informant, who was also a paid consultant for the company at the time.

The next day, Mikerin was sent an 11-page report laying out the larger Russian nuclear strategy and what Russia wanted to do inside the U.S. to gain advantage in the uranium market. The report cited specific concerns about the political pressure opposing Uranium One if it wasn't overcome. Campbell intercepted the do ent.

"Some Republicans truly fear the entry of Russia into the U.S. market, as demonstrated by the fact that they are taking steps to block the purchase of Uranium One," the report warned Mikerin. "This effort bears watching as it may provide clues as to the likely political reaction if a Russian en y was going to participate in the construction and operation of a uranium enrichment plant in the U.S."

After Rosatom's sale was approved, Uranium One officials would have direct contact with Tenex and Mikerin, some of which was witnessed by Campbell, the do ents show.

For instance, Mikerin forwarded to Campbell an email in 2012 from a Uranium One executive suggesting the planned construction of a new nuclear reactor near Augusta, Ga., might prove a good opportunity for both Uranium One and Tenex to expand their business, the do ents show.

Campbell's debriefing files also show he regularly mentioned to FBI agents in 2010 a Washington en y with close ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton that was being paid millions to help expand Tenex's business in the United States. The en y began increasing its financial support to a Clinton charitable project after it was hired by the Russians, according to the do ents.

Campbell engaged in conversations with his Russian colleagues about the efforts of the Washington en y and others to gain influence with the Clintons and the Obama administration. He also listened as visiting Russians used racially tinged insults to boast about how easy they found it to win uranium business under Obama, according to a source familiar with Campbell's planned testimony to Congress.

Uranium One was a large enough concern for the informant that he confronted one of his FBI handlers after learning the CFIUS had approved the sale and that the U.S. had given Mikerin a work visa despite the extensive evidence of his criminal activity, the source said.

The agent responded back to the informant with a comment suggesting "politics" was involved, the source familiar with Campbell's planned testimony said.

Justice officials said federal prosecutors have no records that Campbell or his lawyer made any allegations about the Uranium One deal during his debriefings in the criminal case that started in 2013, but acknowledged he collected evidence about the mining deal during the FBI counterintelligence investigation that preceded it.

In recent days, news media including The Washington Post and Fox News anchor Shepard Smith have inaccurately reported another element of the story: that Uranium One never exported its American uranium because the Obama administration did not allow it.

However, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission authorized Uranium One to export through a third party tons of uranium to Canada for enrichment processing, and some of that product ended up in Europe, NRC do ents state.

A Uranium One executive acknowledged to The Hill that 25 percent of the uranium it shipped to Canada under the third-party export license ended up with either European or Asian customers through what it known in the nuclear business as "book transfers."

But the recent leaks that have most concerned congressional investigators occurred in a Yahoo story late Friday, in which Justice officials anonymously questioned Campbell's credibility and suggested they had to alter their criminal case against Mikerin in 2015, eventually striking a plea deal, because they feared he would be a "disaster" as a trial witness.

The FBI informant file, however, paints a different picture. After Mikerin pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 48 months prison in December 2015, the FBI took Campbell out to a celebratory seafood dinner and delivered a handsome reward: a check for $51,046.36 dated Jan. 7, 2016, a copy of which was obtained by The Hill.

A source directly familiar with the FBI's evidence said the primary reason prosecutors working under Rosenstein, then the U.S. attorney in Maryland, changed course in the case was because of concerns their initial indictment miscast Campbell's role in the investigation.

The original indictments and affidavits portrayed Campbell as a "victim" who became a confidential witness after the Russians tried to "extort" him in summer 2009 into a kickback scheme, court records show.

In fact, Campbell was an informant deeply controlled by FBI counterintelligence starting when he signed a nondisclosure agreement in January 2008, more than a year before Mikerin engaged him in the criminal activity, the FBI's records show.

Campbell was inserted inside Mikerin's world specifically to look for criminal activity and other harmful national security actions by the Russians, starting with undercover work he performed as a consultant contracting with a lobbying firm in 2008 and then inside Tenex starting in 2009, according to do ents and memos.

Campbell's regular debriefings dating to 2008 show the nature of some of his undercover work, including making surrep ious recordings and collecting do ents well before the first money laundering started inside Tenex in 2009. He also had a long history of collaboration with U.S. intelligence, including the FBI, that predated his case, sources told The Hill.

To facilitate his cover, Campbell made a cash payment in summer 2009 to a Russian consultant after he secured the Tenex consulting contract. His Russian colleagues demanded he hire the overseas consultant to better learn the company's strategy and how the Russians preferred to receive their consulting reports, sources said.

The transaction later worried prosecutors in the criminal case because they feared it might muddy their case of extortion against Mikerin because the voluntary payment was made only shortly before the kickback demands started, the sources said.

The prosecutors also faced another concern about the case unrelated to Campbell, the sources said.

When Fisk - one of the main targets of their bribery investigation - died in 2011, the FBI did not execute a grand jury subpoena to capture all of his evidence. Instead, agents asked his widow for permission to voluntarily search his computer hard drive and remove the do ents the agents wanted.

The hard drive was subsequently discarded before the criminal charges were filed, leaving it unavailable for defense lawyers to search, the sources said. Defense lawyers pounced on the revelation late in the case, court records show.

At the time, Fisk was a larger than life figure inside the Russian nuclear industry, having headed the trucking firm that moved uranium across the United States on behalf of Rosatom. Campbell helped the FBI do ent that both Fisk, starting in 2004, and a successor, starting in 2011, at the trucking firm were paying bribes to the Russians, the records show.

During 2010, Fisk was transitioning from the trucking firm to become a key strategist for Tenex and Mikerin, advising them on the Russian nuclear industry's aggressive push to expand its business in the United States.

Sources said the recasting of the prosecution in 2015 had much to do with avoiding exposing the extensive nature of the FBI counterintelligence operations that involved Campbell.

"This isn't really about his credibility or work, which generated leads we relied on well into 2016. Often times, CI investigations are focused first on monitoring and stopping activity that threatens U.S. security and the consequences to later criminal case are a secondary concern," said one source familiar with the probe. "That's the reality of a dirty business."

Asked whether the criminal side of the Justice Department knew about Campbell's work, including its origins to 2008 and its possible ties to Uranium One, a source with direct knowledge said the prosecutors acquired all of Campbell's emails as part of a 2015 agreement he signed. Justice also had access to Campbell's emails recovered from Fisk's computers in 2011 as well as do ents Campbell gave during debriefings that started in 2008, the source added.

The sources familiar with the full body of Campbell's work said they expect he can provide significant new information to Congress.

"Will he be able to prove that we knew Russia was engaged in criminal conduct before Uranium One was approved? You bet," the source said. "Were the Russians using political influence and pulling political levers to try to win stuff from the U.S. government? You bet. Was he perfect? No one in this line of work is. But we were focused on much larger issues than just that."

Campbell endured significant stress during his time undercover and suffered a handful of episodes related to drinking, resulting in two misdemeanor reckless driving charges and one misdemeanor driving under the influence, his lawyer said.

Attorney Victoria Toensing told The Hill that the FBI was fully aware of the drinking incidents and continued to use her client for many years after.

"Until he began working undercover for the U.S. government in his early 60s, Mr. Campbell had an unblemished driving record," she said. "However, the pressure of living a double life and being threatened by the Russians if he violated their trust took a toll.

"Additionally, there were numerous occasions where he was required to meet socially with the Russians, who were prodigious imbibers of vodka. Any refusal by him to participate could have compromised his cover. Mr. Campbell has not had any driving or drinking issue since 2014 when he ceased working undercover."

http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...ush-for-us?amp

[TSA]

[Chris]

OOPS!

[Pavlov]

Same guy reported det massive vote fraud in Alabama.

[TSA]

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/forme...elated-foreign

Mark Lambert, 54, of Mount Airy, Maryland, was charged in an 11-count indictment with one count of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and to commit wire fraud, seven counts of violating the FCPA, two counts of wire fraud and one count of international promotion money laundering. The charges stem from an alleged scheme to bribe Vadim Mikerin, a Russian official at JSC Techsnabexport (TENEX), a subsidiary of Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation and the sole supplier and exporter of Russian Federation uranium and uranium enrichment services to nuclear power companies worldwide, in order to secure contracts with TENEX.

The case against Lambert is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Theodore D. Chuang of the District of Maryland.

According to the indictment, beginning at least as early as 2009 and continuing until October 2014, Lambert conspired with others at "Transportation Corporation A" to make corrupt and fraudulent bribery and kickback payments to offshore bank accounts associated with s companies, at the direction of, and for the benefit of, a Russian official, Vadim Mikerin, in order to secure improper business advantages and obtain and retain business with TENEX. In order to effectuate and conceal the corrupt and fraudulent bribe payments, Lambert and others allegedly caused fake invoices to be prepared, purportedly from TENEX to Transportation Corporation A, that described services that were never provided, and then Lambert and others caused Transportation Corporation A to wire the corrupt payments for those purported services to s companies in Latvia, Cyprus and Switzerland. Lambert and others also allegedly used code words like "lucky figures," "LF," "lucky numbers," and "cake" to describe the payments in emails to the Russian official at his personal email account. The indictment also alleges that Lambert and others caused Transportation Corporation A to overbill TENEX by building the cost of the corrupt payments into their invoices, and TENEX thus overpaid for Transportation Corporation A's services.

[Pavlov]

Just as you predicted!

Oh wait. You didn't.

[Pavlov]

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/forme...elated-foreign

Mark Lambert, 54, of Mount Airy, Maryland, was charged in an 11-count indictment with one count of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and to commit wire fraud, seven counts of violating the FCPA, two counts of wire fraud and one count of international promotion money laundering. The charges stem from an alleged scheme to bribe Vadim Mikerin, a Russian official at JSC Techsnabexport (TENEX), a subsidiary of Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation and the sole supplier and exporter of Russian Federation uranium and uranium enrichment services to nuclear power companies worldwide, in order to secure contracts with TENEX.

The case against Lambert is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Theodore D. Chuang of the District of Maryland.

According to the indictment, beginning at least as early as 2009 and continuing until October 2014, Lambert conspired with others at "Transportation Corporation A" to make corrupt and fraudulent bribery and kickback payments to offshore bank accounts associated with s companies, at the direction of, and for the benefit of, a Russian official, Vadim Mikerin, in order to secure improper business advantages and obtain and retain business with TENEX. In order to effectuate and conceal the corrupt and fraudulent bribe payments, Lambert and others allegedly caused fake invoices to be prepared, purportedly from TENEX to Transportation Corporation A, that described services that were never provided, and then Lambert and others caused Transportation Corporation A to wire the corrupt payments for those purported services to s companies in Latvia, Cyprus and Switzerland. Lambert and others also allegedly used code words like "lucky figures," "LF," "lucky numbers," and "cake" to describe the payments in emails to the Russian official at his personal email account. The indictment also alleges that Lambert and others caused Transportation Corporation A to overbill TENEX by building the cost of the corrupt payments into their invoices, and TENEX thus overpaid for Transportation Corporation A's services.

How does this arrest fit into your conspiracy theory, TSA?

[TSA]

How does this arrest fit into your conspiracy theory, TSA?

Indictments are being unsealed. The investigation is reopened.

[Pavlov]

Indictments are being unsealed. The investigation is reopened.

What makes you think it was ever closed, TSA?

Be specific.

[TSA]

What makes you think it was ever closed, TSA?

Be specific.

I assumed it was reopened after hearing Sessions announcement in taking another look at Uranium One. It’s being looked at again with a fresh set of eyes and no DOJ/FBI to run interference.

[Pavlov]

I assumed it was reopened after hearing Sessions announcement in taking another look at Uranium One. It’s being looked at again with a fresh set of eyes and no DOJ/FBI to run interference.

Sessions IS the DOJ, you idiot.

Hoo-boy!

[TSA]

Sessions IS the DOJ, you idiot.

Hoo-boy!

Obviously talking about when it was investigated before Sessions was AG dip . You’re shook and not thinking straight.

[Pavlov]

Obviously talking about when it was investigated before Sessions was AG dip . You’re shook and not thinking straight.

you're the one demanding I explain someone else's conspiracy to you.

My only Uranium One theory was that the criminal charges were kept on the down low because it was an ongoing investigation. This arrest actually supports that.

What was your Uranium One conspiracy theory again?

[TSA]

you're the one demanding I explain someone else's conspiracy to you.

My only Uranium One theory was that the criminal charges were kept on the down low because it was an ongoing investigation. This arrest actually supports that.

What was your Uranium One conspiracy theory again?

My theory has been stated here before, no need to repeat or speculate on the matter further.

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