A 2016 DOJ criminal investigation was suppressed and
buried by the DOJ/FBI that involved a major NY Democratic power broker and the
Clintons and the Clinton Foundation.
The investigation revolved around the illegal sale of
controlled US homeland security technology to Russia and China in the years
before the 2016 election.
The DOJ terminated its internal investigation in 2016
despite clear and irrefutable evidence of criminal activity and hid it from the
public!
This story begins with the Clintons and their Clinton
Foundation. It includes Russia and China, and ends with another FBI/DOJ
cover-up of Clinton crimes.
In Part
I of our series we discussed the Clinton Foundation and the
donations to the Foundation from the COB and CEO of AGT International as well
as from Sheikhs in the UAE. These donations in the millions of dollars were for
favors from the Clintons.
In Part
II of our series we discussed the illegal actions that AGT
International took to generate revenues around the globe. Highly sensitive ITAR
classified technology was provided to China, Russia and other countries in the
name of sales growth. These actions were beyond criminal, they were treasonous.
In Part III today we discuss the investigation that the
FBI/DOJ started into AGT and the Clinton Foundation but then terminated and
covered up before the 2016 Presidential election despite irrefutable crimes!
We’ve uncovered a heavily redacted letter dated April 18,
2016, addressed to a United States Attorney’s Office. The letter discusses an
apparent court case or investigation entered into between the US, New Jersey,
New York and an unidentified party (United States of America, State of New
Jersey, State of New York, et rel. [redacted]) and members of the AGT family of
companies (AGT International, 4D Security Solutions Inc., Star Management
Services, LLC., 3I-MIND, Inc., iJet International Inc., Sentillian, Inc., AGT
Group (Singapore) PTE. LTD., Logic Industries and Advanced Integrated Systems).
The state, address and those who were copied in the letter within the
government are all redacted in the header of the letter.
(See Attachment)
It’s unknown who the letter is from but it is sent to the US
Attorney’s Office regarding the court action noted above. The letter addressed
a discussion that took place between the senders of the letter and the parties
to which it is addressed (i.e. the US Attorney’s Office). The letter addressed
potential tax evasion by AGT in the first couple of paragraphs. The letter
followed up a discussions that took place on March 31, 2016, between the
parties regarding the tax liability for “AGT International and all the
companies within its shadowy domain”.
The letter includes numerous attachments that provide an
idea of the size, revenues and geographic reach of AGT International. The
senders of the letter note that they suggested to the US Attorney’s Office that
the government subpoena “AGT’s tax returns and inter company agreements”. The
sender believes that these agreements will detail work flows, responsibilities
and the company’s structures. The sender believes that it is expected that the
tax returns and revenues will be at odds with the dictates of the inter-company
agreements. US revenues at AGT will not square with the
work performed. (See Attachment)
The sender also suggests that the US Attorney’s Office
subpoena bank signatures, SBARS or foreign bank reports that will reveal
crimes. “A review of these documents should reveal incriminating falsehoods and
concealment.”
The letter goes on to note that AGT has more than 2,000
employees and revenues of over $1 Billion annually, as boasted by the company’s
CEO, Mati Kochavi. But despite these claims the US portion of the company shows
little or no profit. AGT’s top management and world-wide back office were all
housed in New York offices. This alone would cause major US tax obligations.
It’s also noted that one person with AGT (name redacted)
“managed AGT, 4D, 3I-MIND, Logic and German AGT Resources.” The senior management
team of AGT located in the US also managed, guided, and directed, all design
and product development activity in Israel, Germany, the US and other
locations. Although AGT claimed its headquarters were in Zurich, Switzerland,
all of AGT’s top management operated from its
Manhattan office, including AGT’s Human Resources Officer. (See
Attachment)
At the bottom of the second page in the document is a
footnote that is damning. The sender of the letter notes that the term ‘Safe
City’ is just another name for the company’s principal integrated product. In
Philadelphia, it goes by the name Delaware Valley Intelligence Center (“DVIC”).
All of the AGT’s Safe City installations,
regardless of name, utilize the same Wisdom command and control software.” (See
attached)
This comment is damning because it asserts that AGT used one
software and just renamed it wherever it went. If this software is highly
technical and protected under US law from being exported to regimes that are
restricted by US law, then AGT has a very big problem!
After describing more examples of AGT top personnel being
housed in the US, the sender of the letter again notes that 4D, one of the
names of one of the companies used by AGT, actually formed contracts in the US
and has key players and a plant within the US which helps for eligibility for
bidding on certain defense contracts.
The letter goes on to state that AGT uses the same people
with aliases around the world. It is unknown why they do this. Also, AGT had a
project in Luoyang District in China with the name “Urban Shield’ which in
truth was really virtually the same project sold to Philadelphia and other
federal and state customers by AGT entities 4D and 3I-MIND as the Wisdom
Command and Control software. The same marketing tools were also employed in
China and used in the US.
A final note about the letter is that it is noted that AGT
software is used for intelligence gathering. The sender notes that the 3I-MIND
and IJET intelligence platforms sold in the US are now functioning in various
countries around the world as [redacted], [redacted] and [redacted], which are tools used to manage intelligence gathering,
open source intelligence analytics and natural disasters management. (See
Attached)
In summary, the letter to the US Attorney’s Office provides
startling information regarding AGT. The company was under investigation in
2016. All evidence suggested that it owed millions to the US government in
taxes. But most damning for AGT is the fact that it was selling software,
developed and used in the US, and sharing this software around the world. This
software was used for intelligence gathering and yet was shared with Russians
and Chinese! This is against the law.
At around the same time as the investigation, actions were
allegedly taken by AGT. It was as if the company was tipped off.
Many of its operations in and around New York were reportedly quickly shut
down.
What happened to this investigation and court action? Why
were US voters not told about this investigation and the government’s
actions? Were there more actions like this? Was this covered up due
to AGT’s relationship with the Clintons? Is this the only investigation
by the FBI related to the Clinton Foundation? Is this the investigation
leaked to the press by fired former FBI Director Andrew McCabe?
This investigation involves the Clintons and their pay to
play machine, the Clinton Foundation. It was material to the 2016 US election
and yet the FBI and DOJ suppressed it from the American public. It was
terminated as can be easily surmised due to the fact that this investigation
was never publicly reported and its timing was in 2016.
More crimes with the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation
– More cover ups from Obama’s corrupt and conflicted DOJ and FBI.
Will this finally be enough
to institute an investigation into the FBI and DOJ and the Clinton
Foundation? If America is to remain a republic Americans need honest
answers now!
In
late 2004 I started The Gateway Pundit blog after the
presidential election. At that time I had my twin brother Joe and my buddy
Chris as regular readers. A lot has changed since then.
Today The
Gateway Pundit is one of the top political websites. The
Gateway Pundit has 15 million visits each month (Stat Counter – Google
Analytics). It is consistently rankedasone
of the top political blogsin
the nation. TGP has been cited by Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, The Drudge
Report, The Blaze, Mark Levin, FOX Nation and by several international news
organizations.
If you are an American devoted to the very Founding Principles
to which this nation came into existence, you have be very fed up with Dems
that have committed obvious crimes getting a pass for very egregious wrongs
while Conservatives are prosecuted and often forced into a guilty plea-deal to
prevent further financial ruination. I KNOW I AM getting fed up!
A 2016 DOJ criminal investigation was suppressed and
buried by the DOJ/FBI that involved a major NY Democratic power broker, Bill
and Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation.
The investigation revolved around the illegal sale of
controlled US Homeland Security technology to Russia and China in the years
before the 2016 election.
The DOJ terminated its internal investigation despite
clear and irrefutable evidence of criminal activity and hid it from the public!
The Gateway Pundit will expose this scandal in a series
of posts this week.
Today is our initial report on this egregious scandal and coverup.
This story begins with the Clintons and their Clinton
Foundation. It includes Russia and China, and ends with another FBI/DOJ
cover-up of Clinton crimes. The FBI did such a good job covering this up,
that it has not been reported – until today.
This story started before the 2016 Presidential election. In
and around 2007, Martin L. Edelman a New York attorney with Paul Hastings LLP,
a Bill and Hillary Clinton close friend, and one of their largest donor
bundlers met Mati Kochavi, who reportedly made his fortune in NYC real estate
market. They came up with the idea of forming a group of companies and
purchasing other companies that would develop and sell Homeland Security and
intelligence solutions in the US and world-wide.
Edelman (below) became the Chairman of the Board and Kochavi
the CEO of their company named AGT International.
AGT International – the firm that the Clintons
helped create did all it could to generate revenues, even if it meant
flagrantly breaking US law. In 2014, AGT described itself on its website as the
following:
Today’s world has more devices
and sources of information than ever before, but are they truly interconnected?
AGT International is revolutionizing public safety and security by connecting
previously unlinked devices and data, making relevant information accessible
and actionable for decision-makers and citizens alike.
We use our deep domain expertise
to collect, analyze and identify the most relevant data; and our solutions
provide enhanced visibility to empower people, governments and businesses to
predict, visualize and manage cities and other complex environments.
Since its launch in 2007, AGT
($1B annual revenues) has been a pioneer, making the world safer by leading the
integration of devices and new information sources. In the last five years we
have connected a greater variety of sensors than anyone else in our industry
while successfully delivering some of the world’s largest and most
sophisticated public safety and security projects.
AGT International leverages
three of the most compelling current technology trends to revolutionize public
safety and security: the Internet of Things, Big Data Analytics and Cloud
Computing. Our advanced proprietary software powers cloud-based knowledge
solutions that make connected sensors and data accessible and delivers services
that aid complex problem solving.
AGT is privately held with
headquarters in Switzerland. The company is proud of its diversity: more than
50 nationalities are represented among its 2,400 employees.
AGT International incurred massive growth and went from
$0 to over $8 billion in contracts and $1 billion in revenues in about 5 years. The
Clintons were compensated for their support and endorsement by Kochavi and
Edelman through payments to the Clinton Foundation. These payments totaled
millions of dollars.
AGT Introduction – slide
detailing company offering and experience –
In 2016 at the time
when there was a DOJ investigation into AGT and its illegal actions related to
selling its highly sensitive defense and Homeland Security products to Russia
and China, AGT updated its website and purged some references to the sensitive
nature of its products. The company also shutdown most of its operations
in the US.
Edelman and Kochavi
were both involved in the business. For example, an AGT Management Meeting that
includes executives from all of its business units, included Martin Edelman
from Paul Hastings at the top of the list –
Subject -1300 Management Meeting
AGT’s flagship
platform was called “Wisdom” and “Urban Shield”. The C4I (Command,
Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence) system and some of the
other derivatives technologies were ITAR regulated.
Former President Bill
Clinton endorsed AGT CEO Kochavi through public appearances and by using
himself and Hillary to help the venture with political clout and support in the
US. For example, in July 2012 President Clinton joined Kochavi and Maria
Bartiromo on Wall Street Journal Review promoting Kochavi’s business venture –
CNBC
interview with President Bill Clinton and AGT International CEO Mati Kochavi on
the impact rapidly-changing technology has on the security of the global
economy.
Mati
Kochavi is founder and CEO of AGT International, a global provider of advanced
public safety and security solutions.
AGT
International
One
of the fastest-growing public safety and security solutions organizations in
the world, AGT International has operations across the globe.
Utilizing
systems capable of translating billions of bytes of live data into one unified
'language,' AGT International combines cutting-edge data-gathering hardware,
proprietary analytics, and advanced modeling and simulation programs to deliver
solutions that manage and secure nations, cities, and corporations.
AGT
International offers innovative solutions in the areas of critical
infrastructure and border protection, urban management, cyber security,
transportation, law enforcement, and natural disaster preparedness, helping
unlock the world's potential by enabling the free flow of goods, services,
people, and ideas.
Headquartered
in Zurich, Switzerland, AGT International employs 2,300 people worldwide,
representing more than 50 nationalities. The organization was founded in 2007,
and within five years achieved $1 billion in annual revenues, while managing $8
billion in projects. AGT International is led by Founder and CEO Mati Kochavi.
Emails released by
WikiLeaks show the significance of the relationship between
Edelman and Kochavi and the Clintons. In an email dated November 18, 2011,
describing the various donors to the Clinton Foundation there is a paragraph
describing their relationships –
Mati Kochavi
President Clinton recently turned down a 2 year, $8 million offer to become
Honorary Chairman of Mati Kochavi’s new media business venture. Mati is a
former client of Teneo who we were referred to through Marty Edelman. I went
back to Mati and proposed a new structure without any business connectivity
other than 4 speeches for $1 million and $250k to the foundation should
President Clinton choose to accept it. That would also include any broadcasting
of foundation events or anything President Clinton would like exposure for on
his website. This offer will be presented to President Clinton in Walker speech
invitations which he can choose to decline or accept with no role or
relationship with the company.
The email
lists over $50 million in donations to the Clintons in return
for personal work and lists $66 million more in expected future donations from
various sources, including Edelman and Kochavi.
In another email
released by WikiLeaks, Edelman sent an email to Hillary Clinton and
shared the message that a Middle East Shiek was coming to Washington, D.C. –
Sheikh Muhammid apparently
coming 1st week in may. List of visits includes secstate, sectreas. Just heard.
Marty
The Sheikh most likely referred to by Edelman, is Sheikh
Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan from the Abu Dhabi Royal family. It’s suspected
that the Sheikh provided capital through the Mubadala
investment Company to Edelman and Kochavi to start up their
AGT venture. Not surprisingly, the Clinton
Foundation also received millions in donations from related
entities in the Middle East –
Former US President Bill Clinton
has been paid $5.625 million since 2011 by Dubai’s GEMS Education to lead the
company’s charity arm, according to tax returns released in the US this month
[August 2015].
Many Americans are aware of the stories of corruption
surrounding the Clinton Foundation since the 2016 election. The
Foundation received millions in return for the sale of a significant portion of
US uranium to the Russians. Democrat Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton
denied any wrong doing during the 2016 debates and even spoke of the Clinton
Foundation as a superb philanthropic venture.
Future President Donald Trump disagreed with Hillary and
stated that the Foundation was a fraud – the people of Haiti, for example, whom
the Clintons had ‘helped’, didn’t want the Clintons back –
At
the final presidential debate Wednesday, Hillary Clinton defended the work of
the Clinton Foundation which Donald Trump called a "criminal
enterprise." Photo: Reuters
Hillary denied “pay to play” involving the Clinton
Foundation where the Clintons would demand donations to their ‘Foundation’ and
in return promise to perform agreed upon actions for these payments. Hillary
was not honest.
The Clintons took in millions from Edelman, Kochavi and
Sheikhs in the Middle East. In return the Clintons made promises and performed
actions for a price. Unfortunately, the actions taken by the Clintons and the
companies and individuals who donated to them were often illegal.
In our next post we’ll discuss these actions that the
family of companies known as AGT International took in order to build their
business worldwide.
In a third post we’ll discuss how the FBI/DOJ got
involved but then suppressed and eventually terminated their investigation
shortly before the 2016 Presidential election.
In late 2004 I started The
Gateway Pundit blog after the presidential election. At that time I
had my twin brother Joe and my buddy Chris as regular readers. A lot has
changed since then.
Today The Gateway
Pundit is one of the top political websites. The Gateway
Pundit has 15 million visits each month (Stat Counter – Google
Analytics). It is consistently rankedasone of the toppolitical blogsin the nation. TGP
has been cited by Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, The Drudge Report, The Blaze,
Mark Levin, FOX Nation and by several international news organizations.
It’s been about two years (give or take) since Crooked
Hillary and Slick Willie evidence began to be exposed to the public. A lack of
smoking gun dot connections, a coverup-minded Obama Administration and a
colluding Mainstream Media (MSM) have protected the Clintons for quite some
time.
A trove of documents on the Clinton
Foundation alleging possible pay for play and tax evasion have been turned over
to the FBI and IRS by several investigative whistleblowers, who will be
testifying in an open hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee Thursday, according to the committee and lawmakers.
Roughly 6,000 documents that are expected to reveal the
nearly two-year investigation by the whistleblowers with a private firm called
MDA Analytics LLC, which allegedly turned over the documents more than a year
and a half ago to the IRS, according to John Solomon, who first published the
report last week in The
Hill.
The whistleblowers are former federal criminal
investigators, who allege that the Clinton Foundation was “engaged in illegal
activities and may be liable for millions of dollars in delinquent taxes and
penalties,” according to Solomon.
The Department of Justice and the FBI’s Little Rock, Ark.
field office, which is believed to be investigating the foundation, have
allegedly obtained the documentation from the whistleblowers as well, according
to lawmakers who’ve spoken with the whistleblowers.
Clinton Foundation officials could not be immediately
reached for comment.
However, a former whistleblower, who has spoken with agents
from the Little Rock FBI field office last year and worked for years as an
undercover informant collecting information on Russia’s nuclear energy industry
for the bureau, noted his enormous frustration with the DOJ and FBI. He
describes as a two-tiered justice system that failed to actively investigate
the information he provided years ago on the Clinton Foundation and Russia’s
dangerous meddling with the U.S. nuclear industry and energy industry during the
Obama administration.
William D. Campbell’s story wasfirst
published by this reporter in 2017. He turned over more than
5,000 documents and detailed daily briefs to the bureau when he served as a
confidential informant reporting on Russia’s nuclear giant Rosatom. Campbell
worked as an energy consultant, gaining the trust of Russians and
providing significant insight into Russia’s strategic plans to gain global
dominance in the uranium industry. He reported on Russian’s intentions to build
a closer relationship with Obama administration officials, to include
then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as
reported. The documents he turned over to the DOJ, which were
reviewed by this news site, showed Campbell had also provided highly sensitive
information both related to the uranium case, as well as other intelligence
matters, since 2006.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller was the director of the FBI
at the time Campbell was a confidential informant and according to Campbell,
the information was briefed to Mueller by his FBI handlers.
“(Mueller) received the documents, copies of which I still
have, over a period of years and ignored a national security threat to the
United States because of his political preference,” said Campbell, who said he
is frustrated that the investigation into the Clinton Foundation and the other
information he provided was apparently ignored years ago.
“These men were in charge of transport of nuclear materials
(inside the United States) while committing criminal activity here in the
United States and signing major US utility contracts,” said Campbell, referring
to the information he provided the FBI on the American company Transportation Logistics
International, also known as TLI, was the primary transport company
for Russian enriched uranium sold to the United States.
“One teacup of what they were transporting both domestically
and abroad could close down Wall Street or Washington,” Campbell warned. “(Mueller)
ignored and delayed their arrests over years while I was risking my life
undercover and interacting with these (Vladimir) Putin appointees both here in
the United States and overseas.”
But Rep. Mark Meadows, chairman of the Freedom Caucus and
member of the committee, said this time it will be different. He noted that the
investigation is apparently ongoing with the FBI and DOJ and believes the
information being delivered for Thursday’s hearing to be ‘explosive’ in nature
and may help connect the dots.
Meadow’s told Fox New’s Martha MaCallum Tuesday,
“the American people, they want to bring some closure, not just a few sound
bites, here or there, so we’re going to be having a hearing this week, not only
covering over some of those 6,000 pages that you’re talking about, but hearing
directly from three whistleblowers that have actually spent the majority of the
last two years investigating this.”
Meadows, who’s also on President Donald Trump’s short-list
to replace Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly, noted that some “allegations
(whistleblowers) make are quite explosive.”
“We just look at the contributions. Now everybody’s focused
on the contributions for the Clinton Foundation and what has happened just in
the last year,” he said. “But if you look at it, it had a very strong rise, the
minute she was selected as secretary of state. It dipped down when she was no
longer there.”
“And then rose again, when she decided to run for president.
So there are all kinds of allegations of pay-to-play and that kind of thing,”
Meadows added.
Sara A. Carter is a national and international award
winning investigative reporter whose stories have ranged from national
security, terrorism, immigration and front line coverage of the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq.
I ran into a social media post linking to the audio of a Dan
Bongino podcast. I usually give credit to such discoveries, but I can only remember
it was on a G+ Community.
Bongino takes about an hour to discuss the ramifications of
the FBI raid on Whistleblower Dennis Cain in Chicago. The surprise is Cain was
supposed to be a cooperating Whistleblower protected by Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA).
So, why would the FBI get a search warrant and raid a person
supposedly under the protection of the ICWPA? Bongino theorizes three
possibilities:
1)The
initial theory the raid is good.
2)Bongino’s
theory (which I think is plausible) the raid might be to prevent incriminating
evidence against the FBI.
3)OR
a combination of 1 & 2.
Below is the nearly long Youtube version of the Bongino
podcast followed by the Epoch Times pierce referred to Bongino, then a Daily
Caller update on the FBI raid on Cain’s home posted on 12/5.
JRH 12/6/184
So readers, I’ve been using a seven year old laptop to fulfill the
old blogging habit. My lovely wife sprang for an upgrade.
I’m a relatively small-time blogger but with a consistently
growing readership despite some token censorship from the
A series of four investigations
that recently came to light suggest that something larger is at play in
clearing out corruption in the United States. In this episode of Declassified,
we take a look at these investigations and their significance.
If anyone tells you they are tired of nothing happening with
regard to ongoing investigations, perhaps they should take a closer look at a
number of events that came to light over the past few days.
In a matter that caused no small amount of worry and
consternation among supporters of President Donald Trump, The Daily
Caller reported on
Nov. 29 that the FBI had raided the home of whistleblower Dennis Nathan
Cain.
The raid, which took place on Nov. 19, involved 16 FBI
agents who had obtained a court order signed on Nov. 15 by federal magistrate
Stephanie A. Gallagher in the U.S. District Court for Baltimore, according to
The Daily Caller. No reason for the 10-day delay between the raid and his
lawyer’s public announcement was given.
Cain, whose name is new to the public, isn’t just any
whistleblower. He retains a top-level security clearance and maintains a number
of security-related credentials, according to his resume, which has since been
deleted online. Specialties include the FISA Amendment Act (FAA) Section 702
and USSID SP0018 Minimization
Procedures and Signals Intelligence Authorities.
According to the article, Cain “privately delivered
documents pertaining to the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One to a government
watchdog, according to the whistleblower’s attorney.”
“The Justice Department’s inspector general was informed
that the documents show that federal officials failed to investigate potential
criminal activity regarding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the
Clinton Foundation and Rosatom, the Russian company that purchased Uranium
One,” the article states.
Cain also had obtained official whistleblower status from
DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz. Michael Socarras, Cain’s lawyer, told
The Daily Caller that Cain had met with a “senior member of Horowitz’s office”
and delivered a flash drive along with a sealed envelope containing documents.
The same materials reportedly were also delivered to the Senate and House
Intelligence committees.
The FBI agents seized all of the original documents in
Cain’s possession, according to Socarras. The Daily Caller said that one
document they reviewed showed that then-FBI Director Robert Mueller “failed to
investigate allegations of criminal misconduct pertaining to Rosatom and to
other Russian government entities attached to Uranium One.” How The Daily Caller
was able to review any documents, following what was reported to be a full
seizure, remains unexplained.
There have been strong reactions to the news, with many
perceiving it as some sort of coverup. However, a few facts are worth
entertaining. Regardless of the FBI’s seizure, both IG Horowitz and the House
and Senate intelligence committees already have the documents in their
possession. The FBI’s seizure of documents from Cain doesn’t indicate the
documents are being hidden.
As noted in the article, the FBI agents obtained a court
order which means their identities are known. FBI Director Chris Wray, if he
doesn’t already know, could easily determine the agents’ identities—this wasn’t
a clandestine operation.
Another possible issue might have to do with Cain himself.
Very little is known about him other than that he’s a whistleblower, which
generally conveys images of positive actions taken by a well-intentioned
individual. However, we know nothing of Cain’s true motivations or the actions
that lay behind them. It may turn out that an invasive raid by the FBI was
fully warranted.
Another explanation may lie within the documents themselves.
The FBI’s actions may be related to chain-of-custody issues. The FBI may have
been required to ensure that all evidence was accumulated and taken into their
custody. It’s possible this document seizure by the FBI may indicate a case
against the Clintons and/or their Foundation is actively underway.
The Chicago Raid
The FBI raid on Cain’s house wasn’t the only one.
On Nov. 29, federal agents raided the offices of Alderman
Edward Burke, a powerful Chicago politician who has held his position in
Chicago politics for 50 years. Burke’s office windows were covered and FBI
agents remained on the premises for about seven hours, according to media
reports.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who abruptly announced in
September that he would not seek re-election, said his office had no advance
warning of the raid, noting: “I
know what I read in the paper. I’m out here. That’s it. … You are asking
hypotheticals and I am not going to do that with the FBI walking around his
office.”
Burke, who has beenunder federal
scrutiny on several occasions, has never been convicted or indicted. His
investigation is being handled by the public corruption squad from the local
FBI office.
Burke’s law firm specializes in property-tax reductions for
his clients, and some have speculated that the raid could be connected to work
that Burke’s law firm did for the president, but there are several problems
with that theory.
A federal agent leaves the Southside office of 14th
Ward Alderman Ed Burke on Nov. 29, 2018. (Scott
Olson/Getty Images)
The Burke investigation,
according to the Chicago Tribune, “was being conducted in conjunction with the
U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago, not Mueller’s office.” Additionally, the
Sun-Times reported, “the raids were in response to new allegations, and not
prompted by any past controversies that have swirled around Burke.”
Dan Mihalopoulos, a reporter for WBEZ in Chicago, was
somewhat more direct:
“Worth also noting today: Burke’s huge role in the local Democratic
judge-making process. One judge just told me, ‘Everyone’s crapping themselves
here.’”
The investigation probably has more to do with corrupt
Chicago politics than anything related to the president.
Money-Laundering Probes
Two other events with a more international scope also have
been underway.
Several banks are currently under investigation for
a massive money-laundering scandal that is likely to only grow larger.
Danske Bank is being investigated by the U.S. Department of
Justice, and new charges were filed this week by Danish authorities. The bank’s
CEO and chairman both have been forced to resign and
numerous current employees are under investigation. Danske Bank has admitted
that approximately $230 billion has flowed through one of its units in Estonia,
but the focus now appears to be shifting to other financial institutions:
“Howard Wilkinson, a former Danske Bank A/S manager who blew
the whistle on its multibillion-dollar laundromat, told lawmakers in Brussels
that when it comes to shell companies, or limited liability partnerships, the
U.K. is ‘worst of all.’ He said he was legally prevented from naming the other
banks involved, but urged lawmakers to treat the Danske scandal as a case that
goes well beyond its core in Estonia,” Bloomberg reported
Nov. 21.
The corporate headquarters of Deutsche Bank in
Frankfurt, Germany, on Nov. 29, 2018. German law enforcement and tax
authorities raided the offices over suspicions of tax evasion and money
laundering. (Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)
Also on Nov. 29, Deutsche Bank’s headquarters was also raided by
German officials. Transactions being examined by investigators relate to
the bank’s wealth-management division, which previously has come under
scrutiny.
According to a spokeswoman for prosecutors, the
investigation covers the five-year period from 2013 to 2018 and is related to
disclosures made in the Panama Papers—11.5 million
leaked documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, then the world’s
fourth-biggest provider of offshore services.
The Deutsche Bank raids continued for a second day and
reportedly included the executive management board’s floor. Deutsche was one of
Danske’s correspondent banks, as are JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. Any
potential involvement of other banks will bear close watching.
Clinton Donor Charged
Lastly, in a Nov. 29 DOJ press release,
three executives including Abul Huda Farouki were
charged “for their roles in a scheme to defraud U.S. military contracts in
Afghanistan, engaging in illegal commerce in Iran, and laundering money
internationally.” Farouki was the CEO of Anham, a defense contractor based in
the United Arab Emirates
This wasn’t the first time Farouki or his company have been
involved in allegations of misconduct. In a 2013 article by The Daily Caller,
headlined “Clinton Donors Get a
Pass on Shady Contracting,” Farouki and his company were
highlighted:
“In June 2011, the Defense Department’s Office of the
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) released a scathingreport on
a defense contracting company called Anham. The title of the report and its
conclusion were the same: ‘Poor Government Oversight of Anham and Its
Subcontracting Procedures Allowed Questionable Costs to Go Undetected.’”
The article then asked a simple question: Given prior
violations, how was Anham able to secure an $8 billion contract in Afghanistan
that “allowed it to illegally ship supplies through two Iranian border
crossings and a seaport controlled by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard?”
The $8 billion contract, along with the illegal shipment of
supplies, being cited in the 2013 article appear to be exactly the same
violations being alleged in the 2018 DOJ indictment. So why weren’t Farouki and
his company charged with these same, known violations back in 2013?
The answer may lie within Farouki’s many connections to the
Democratic Party. The Daily Caller notes that Farouki is a longtime donor to
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and donated to Obama for America in 2008. But
Farouki’s closest ties lie with the Clintons and their Foundation.
Farouki, a member of the now-shuttered Clinton Global
Initiative, participated in annual CGI
meetings since the group’s formation in 2005 through at least 2010 and
made multiple donations to
the Clinton Foundation. Farouki also made donations to
Terry McAuliffe and has been photographed with
Huma Abedin.
There appears to be a common thread among what might appear
to be unrelated events: the raid on the whistleblower, the raid on the Chicago
politician, the investigations of European banks, and the charges brought
against a Clinton donor. All the activities targeted were either occurring
during the Obama era or, in the case of the DOJ whistleblower, were directly
related to underlying events from that time.
There may be more going on than meets the casual eye.
Jeff Carlson is a CFA charterholder. He worked for 20
years as an analyst and portfolio manager in the high-yield bond market. He
runs the website TheMarketsWork.com.
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WHISTLEBLOWER ADVOCATES,
ATTORNEYS CONDEMN FBI RAID ON CLINTON FOUNDATION WHISTLEBLOWER
·Whistleblower
activists condemned the FBI’s raid of a recognized whistleblower, Dennis Cain.
·Cain
had previously shared documents with Department of Justice Inspector
General Michael Horowitz.
·The documents contained potential wrongdoing
regarding the Clinton Foundation, the Uranium One deal and former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, according to Cain’s lawyer.
Whistleblower advocates across the political spectrum
condemned an FBI raid on the home of a recognized whistleblower who reported
potential wrongdoing surrounding the Clinton Foundation, the Uranium One deal
and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The Daily Caller News Foundation, in a bombshell report,
detailed how 16 FBI agents
raided the home of Dennis Cain, a former employee of an FBI contractor, on Nov.
19. They rummaged through his home for six hours even though he told them
that Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz awarded
him whistleblower status, according to Cain’s lawyer, Michael Socarras.
Everyone TheDCNF interviewed said the raid should never have
occurred. They said it appeared Cain followed the rules in accordance to the
Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act, which protects federal
whistleblowers from retaliation.
“I really do question the need for this raid at all,” said
Nick Schwellenbach, the investigations director for the Project on Government
Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog group that frequently works with
whistleblowers. “On its face it doesn’t seem like it was necessary.”
“This isn’t how we should be treating whistleblowers who are
coming forward with information about high level wrongdoing,” he told TheDCNF.
“It sends a very strong message that you will be treated as a criminal
even though what you’re trying to do is expose crime or a potential crime.”
Former US Secretary of State [Crooked] Hillary Clinton
gives a public lecture. REUTERS/Clodagh
Kilcoyne
Craig Holman, a lobbyist for Public Citizen, the liberal
advocacy group founded by Ralph Nader, told TheDCNF: “Well it certainly
sounds like an absolute violation of the spirit of what the whistleblower law
is supposed to be all about.”
The documents Cain possessed, which he gave to the special
agent leading the search, show that federal officials failed to investigate
potential criminal activity pertaining toClinton, the
Clinton Foundation, and the Russian company that purchased Uranium One,
according to a document TheDCNF reviewed.
The court order and all the documents justifying the raid
are sealed and are not available for public viewing. Federal
magistrate Stephanie A. Gallagher of the U.S. District Court of
Maryland in Baltimore issued the court order on Nov. 15.
TheDCNF asked the court on Friday to unseal the documents.
Gallagher has not yet responded.
A conservative attorney on ethics law, Cleta Mitchell,
questioned whether the FBI was truthful when it sought the court order.
“If they did not fully advise the court of his whistleblower
status, then I would find that to be extremely troublesome,” she said. “The
main question is whether or not they properly informed the court that this
individual is a whistleblower and that he had gone through the procedures to
receive whistleblower status.”
“Until Mr. Cain’s attorney is able to see what the FBI or
the U.S. Attorney presented to the court in order to obtain this search
warrant, then we have no way of knowing and he has no way of knowing whether
they fully and properly advised the court that he had whistleblower status, and
whether they informed the judge that he had gone through all of the proper
procedures,” Mitchell continued.
Schwellenbach said the judge should release the original
documents filed by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney.
“I would love to see what’s in their subpoena request to the
judge,” he told TheDCNF. “What facts do they present to the judge? I think
that is a document that should see the light of the day.”
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley asked
FBI Director Christopher Wray in
a Nov. 30 letter whether
the bureau was “aware at the time of the raid that Mr. Cain had made what
appeared to be lawful disclosures to the Inspector General?”
FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a Senate
Intelligence Committee hearing.REUTERS/Leah Millis
Texas defense attorney Stuart Baggish told TheDCNF
that the search of Cain’s home could be a violation of the Fourth
Amendment, which protects against unreasonable search and seizures. Baggish is
challenging a recent raid on his client’s business after local law enforcement
allegedly omitted key facts before a judge when justifying the search.
Baggish is challenging a recent raid on his
client’s business by local law enforcement for omitting key facts before a
judge when justifying a raid on his client’s business.
“If the search warrant for Mr. Cain’s property was based on
an affidavit that purposely or recklessly omitted his whistleblower
status, like my client’s case against the Smith County Sheriff [in Texas], the
search could be ruled unreasonable and hence a Fourth
Amendment violation,” he said.
“Material information may occasionally
inadvertently be left out of a search warrant affidavit, but it is
rare and dangerous when it is done purposely or recklessly,” Baggish continued.
Schwellenbach, the POGO investigator, told TheDCNF: “I
think the FBI needs to be thoughtful how it uses these powers. Judges need
to be skeptical of FBI claims.”
“They shouldn’t be raiding people’s homes unless there’s a
real compelling reason to do so and alternative means have been exhaustive,” he
continued.
Baggish warned that such raids also undermine the judiciary
and violate civil rights.
“When law enforcement officers intentionally mislead a court
to obtain a search warrant, they are entering a realm of malfeasance that
harms not just the individual or entity whose property is raided,
destroyed and confiscated, they also harm the judiciary itself by depriving it
of its efficacy as the guardian of Americans’ civil rights,” he
said.
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