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Erik Prince Is Accused of Lying to Congress Multiple Times. Is William Barr About to Bury the Case?

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is reportedly in the eleventh hour of its decision-making process on whether to charge professional mercenary Erik Prince with the crime of lying to Congress amid the Russia probe in 2017.
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Report: Cooperators Aid In Erik Prince Criminal Investigation

Multiple cooperating witnesses have helped speed up the criminal investigation into Blackwater...
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Report: Cooperators Aid In Erik Prince Criminal Investigation

Multiple cooperating witnesses have helped speed up the criminal investigation into Blackwater founder and Trump ally Erik Prince, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The Justice Department is reportedly reviewing whether to charge Prince with making false statements to Congress due to November 2017 testimony he gave to the House Intelligence Committee, and with violating the International Trafficking in Arms Regulations.

It’s not clear at what stage of the charging process prosecutors currently find themselves. House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) issued a criminal referral for Prince in April 2019, saying that the Mueller report substantially contradicted the sworn testimony that the Blackwater founder gave to the panel.

The Justice Department replied to Schiff last week, telling the lawmaker that it would refer the request “to the proper investigative agency.”

Prince allegedly misled lawmakers about the circumstances of a January 2017 Seychelles meeting with Russian Direct Investment Fund chief Kirill Dmitriev.

Also attending that summit was George Nader, the U.S.-Middle East middleman who pleaded guilty in January to child pornography charges. Nader faces separate campaign finance charges regarding contributions he made to pro-Hillary Clinton political groups; he had pleaded not guilty in that case.

The arms allegations reportedly focus on a pitch Prince made to the UAE to supply the gulf state armed aircraft.

Matthew L. Schwartz, an attorney for Prince, told TPM in a statement that “there is nothing new here.”

“Erik Prince’s House testimony has been public for more than a year, and was available at all times that Mr. Prince met with the Department of Justice during the Special Counsel’s investigation,” Schwartz added.
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Trump Denies He Intervened But Says DOJ’s Proposed Roger Stone Sentence Was ‘Ridiculous’

President Donald Trump on Tuesday called the Justice Department’s initial sentencing recommendation...
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Trump Denies He Intervened But Says DOJ’s Proposed Roger Stone Sentence Was ‘Ridiculous’

President Donald Trump on Tuesday called the Justice Department’s initial sentencing recommendation for his friend and adviser Roger Stone “ridiculous” but denied intervening on Stone’s behalf to make the proposed sentence lighter.

After reports indicated the Justice Department would dramatically scale back its initial recommendation that Stone serve up to nine years in prison, three prosecutors quit the case, and two of them left the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. entirely. The Justice Department filed a new, lighter sentencing recommendation Tuesday afternoon.

But Trump, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, said he hadn’t pressured the Justice Department to change its sentencing recommendation in Stone’s favor.

“I stay out of things to a degree that people wouldn’t believe, but I didn’t speak to them,” Trump said, asked if he’d spoken to Justice Department officials about Stone’s sentencing recommendation.

“I thought the recommendation was ridiculous, I thought the whole prosecution was ridiculous,” he added.

Stone was found guilty in November on all counts against him, including lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstruction of an official proceeding.

“These are the same Mueller people that put everybody through hell,” Trump added later, referring to prosecutors.
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Trump Muses About Disciplinary Action Against Ousted NSC Official Who Testified Against Him

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Trump Muses About Disciplinary Action Against Ousted NSC Official Who Testified Against Him

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he expected the military to consider disciplinary action against Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the ousted National Security Council official who testified in the House impeachment inquiry into Trump.



Speaking to reporters from the Oval Office, Trump repeatedly tied Vindman’s ouster to his testimony and said it would be up to the military what to do with Vindman — who will reportedly return to the Army after being escorted out of the White House last week alongside his brother, who was also ousted from the NSC despite not testifying.

“That’s going to be up to the military, we’ll have to see,” Trump told a reporter who asked if he thought the military should take disciplinary action against Vindman.

“But if you look at what happened, I mean, they’re going to certainly, I’d imagine, take a look at that,” he added. “What he did was, he reported a false call.”

Vindman listened in on the now-infamous July 25 phone call in which Trump pressured Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to pursue investigations into Trump’s political rivals. Vindman later testified behind closed doors and in a public hearing about what he’d heard the President say.

In the Oval Office Tuesday, Trump repeatedly connected Vindman’s ouster to his testimony.

“I obviously wasn’t happy with the job he did,” Trump said of Vindman. “First of all, he reported a false call.”

“The military can handle him any way they want,” Trump added later.

Vindman and his brother’s ouster from the NSC Friday came as Democrats expressed fear that Trump would seek retaliation against impeachment probe witnesses in the wake of the Senate’s acquittal of him on both impeachment charges against him.

Also on Friday, another impeachment probe witness, Gordon Sondland, said he had been recalled as the ambassador to the European Union.

And on Tuesday, four career Justice Department prosecutors withdrew from the department’s case against Roger Stone — and, in two cases, resigned from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C. entirely — as the department prepared to release a watered down sentencing recommendation that was more favorable to Stone. The Trump friend and adviser was found guilty of all counts against him in November.
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Funny black people make believe Yang attending a black church was meaningful when it was an act desperation OBVIOUSLY

He saw his numbers dwindling and used the black church as a last resort before he inevitably dropped out smh. We weren't a priority til it was too late..
 
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Funny black people make believe Yang attending a black church was meaningful when it was an act desperation OBVIOUSLY

He saw his numbers dwindling and used the black church as a last resort before he inevitably dropped out smh. We weren't a priority til it was too late..
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I didn’t like all that pandering Yang was doing.. Also his Yang “Gang” fanboys were annoying as hell on social media...
 
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