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House intel panel taps Russian mob prosecutor to lead Trump probe
Representative Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that Goldman joined the panel in February as senior adviser and director of investigations. Schiff also named a new budget director and three other people for various roles.
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Representative Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that Goldman joined the panel in February as senior adviser and director of investigations. Schiff also named a new budget director and three other people for various roles.
US Representative Jerrold Nadler.Credit:AP
The committee's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign has taken on new life since the Democrats took control of the House in November elections.
The panel is set to hear testimony from Michael Cohen, the president's onetime "fixer," for a second time on Wednesday since he turned on his former boss.
Goldman was an assistant US attorney in the Southern District of New York for a decade through 2017, serving as the lead prosecutor in the conviction of Las Vegas sports gambler William "Billy" Walters for insider trading.
But likely more relevant to the committee's probe is Goldman's tenure as deputy of the Southern District's Organised Crime Unit, where he oversaw a major Russian mob case against more than 30 individuals for money laundering and racketeering.
Goldman has also worked as a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, commenting on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 22-month-old investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia. NBC did not return a request for comment.
Goldman attended last northern summer's trial of former Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and was at the December sentencing of Cohen, who is due to start a three-year sentence in May for violating campaign finance laws and other crimes.
As the wheels continue to turn to the investigation into Trump's ties with Russia, a federal judge said on Tuesday that the publication of a book last month by the president's former political adviser which criticised Special Counsel Robert Mueller Roger Stone may violate a media gag order.
The transgression could land the self-proclaimed "dirty trickster" behind bars.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ordered Stone and his lawyers to provide her with a report by Monday explaining how he plans to comply with the order, and also demanded that he turn over certain records detailing everything he knew about the book's release.
"There is no question that the order prohibited and continues to prohibit the defendant from making any public statements, using any medium, concerning the investigation," Jackson wrote.
"It does not matter when the defendant may have first formulated the opinions expressed, or when he first put them into words: he may no longer share his views on these particular subjects with the world."
Stone, a longtime Republican operative, is the 34th person to face charges as part of Mueller's investigation into whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russia.
He has pleaded not guilty to seven counts of obstruction, witness tampering and making false statements.
Trump has denied any collusion with Russia occurred and called Mueller's probe a witch hunt.
Shortly after Stone was charged, Jackson gave him wide latitude to discuss the case against him as long as it was not in the vicinity of the federal courthouse.
But just days later, she tightened the reins with a sweeping gag order after Stone posted a photo of her on his Instagram account next to an image resembling the crosshairs of a gun and a message critical of both her and Mueller.
In issuing her gag order on February 21, Jackson warned Stone he would not have a second chance if he violated it. She also said his apologies about the posting, which was later removed, rang hollow.
After the gag order, Jackson learned that a 2017 book by Stone originally titled The Making of the President 2016 had been re-published under the name The Myth of Russian Collusion and that it criticised Mueller in its introduction.
In addition, Stone also in March posted an item on Instagram that said "Who framed Roger Stone." It was later removed.
Stone's lawyers have said the book does not violate the gag order because it came out on February 19, before the order was issued.
But Jackson blasted them for failing to disclose it to her when they had the chance, and said Stone must provide her with records including communications with the publisher, information on the publication of the book and other details related to his Instagram posts.
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When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saw the lead she had over incumbent Rep. Joseph Crowley in New York’s Democratic primary, her face said it all.
“I cannot put this into words,” she told a NY1 reporter, visibly stunned as the results of her victory came in during the June 2018 primary.
Months later, at 29 years old, Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman elected to Congress in the November 2018 midterm elections. Although her tenure as a congresswoman has been short, she's already made headlines, from floating a 70 percent tax on top earners to attacking fact-checkers for so-called "false equivalency."
Read on to find out more about Ocasio-Cortez.
She's the youngest woman in Congress
When Elise Stefanik won her congressional seat – also in New York – she became the youngest woman ever elected at 30 years old.
But Ocasio-Cortez, along with new Rep. Abby Finkenauer, D-Iowa, Ocasio-Cortez beat that record as they were both elected at 29 years old.
Ocasio-Cortez has never before held elected office and is still paying off her student loans, she previously told Elite Daily. She is a graduate of Boston University where she earned two degrees: economics and international relations.
She's a Bernie Sanders alumna
Corey Torpie/Courtesy Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Campaign via AP (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez participates in a Bengali community outreach in New York.)
Ocasio-Cortez’s political experience lies in community organizing. She was an organizer for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential bid.
And her messaging during the campaign reflected her political closeness with Sanders; according to The New York Times, she placed an emphasis on smaller donors instead of wealthy corporate ones. In fact, she raised approximately $600,000 alone through small donors, Vox reported.
Sanders congratulated Ocasio-Cortez on her “extraordinary upset” in a tweet following her primary win.
“She took on the entire local Democratic establishment in her district and won a very strong victory,” the independent from Vermont said. “She demonstrated once again what progressive grassroots politics can do.”
She also worked for the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, particularly on immigration casework and foreign affairs.
Ocasio-Cortez garnered support from progressives, including Cynthia Nixon
During her campaign, Ocasio-Cortez teamed up with Cynthia Nixon, the former “Sex and the City” actress who unsuccessfully ran against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the gubernatorial primary.
“The only way that you beat a machine is with a movement and the only way that this movement can sustain is if we start in good faith on shared values of a New York citizen. I think that is where Cynthia and I come together,” Ocasio-Cortez told The Cut after receiving Nixon’s endorsement. “I very much value the work and the impact that she has already made, due to the fact that she can go on ‘The View’ and talk about abolishing ICE. What we can do is tag-team this message so that every community can hear it that needs to hear it. And I think that that kind of solidarity across lines is very, very powerful.”
Aside from Nixon, Ocasio-Cortez was also endorsed by a bevy of liberal groups, including MoveOn and Our Revolution.
She’s a member of the Democratic Socialists of America
Progressive challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (left) is joined by New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon at her victory party in the Bronx after upsetting incumbent Democratic Rep. Joseph Crowley. (Getty Images/Scott Heins)
Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, which bills itself as the largest socialist organization in the U.S.
She told Vogue magazine that socialism, to her, means “democratic participation in our economic dignity, and our economic, social and racial dignity.”
“To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It’s asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It’s one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live. It’s to say that no individual’s civil rights are to be violated. And it’s to say that we need to really examine the historical inequities that have created much of the inequalities – both in terms of economics and social and racial justice – because they are intertwined,” she said.
She supports Medicare for all, tuition-free public colleges, greater gun control, criminal justice reform and “housing as a human right.”
Ocasio-Cortez was one of the first congressional candidates to call for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) federal agency to be dissolved.
“As overseen by the Trump administration, ICE operates with virtually no accountability, ripping apart families and holding our friends and neighbors indefinitely in inhumane detention centers scattered across the United States,” her campaign website states. “Alex believes that if we are to uphold civic justice, we must abolish ICE and see to it that our undocumented neighbors are treated with the dignity and respect owed to all people, regardless of citizenship status.”
She grew up in the Bronx and helped support her family after the death of her dad
Born in the Bronx, Ocasio-Cortez was raised by a mother from Puerto Rico and a father who was a small business owner. After her father passed away from cancer in 2008, Ocasio-Cortez worked two jobs in the restaurant industry to help her family make ends meet.
After returning to the Bronx after college, Ocasio-Cortez pushed for greater childhood education and literacy, according to The New York Times. She also started a publishing company that produced books portraying the Bronx in a positive manner, The New York Daily News reported in 2012.
Her upbringing also helped her foray into politics, she told Elite Daily.
“Politics were talked about at the table every single day,” she said. “It’s the culture. In Puerto Rico, you talk about politics all the time, even when people disagree.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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OTTAWA — The head of SNC-Lavalin told the Canadian government it had to change its anti-corruption rules “as expeditiously as possible” in a 2017 letter to the minister in charge of procurement, just as her department was helping oversee public consultations on lighter punishments for corporate misconduct.
SNC-Lavalin CEO Neil Bruce wrote to Public Services Minister Carla Qualtrough on Oct. 13, 2017 and sent copies of his message to seven other senior cabinet ministers.
Bruce also attached his company’s official submission for the consultations, which were examining possible changes to the “integrity regime” and the potential creation of a plea-bargain-type tool known as a deferred-prosecution agreement or remediation agreement.
Bruce’s Montreal-based firm was charged in 2015 with corruption and fraud over allegations it resorted to bribery while pursuing business in Libya. If convicted, it could be barred from public contracts for 10 years under the federal integrity regime.
The letter, obtained by The Canadian Press under access-to-information law, shows a high-level push for policy changes to help the engineering and construction giant avoid prosecution.
SNC-Lavalin lobbied federal officials, including in the Prime Minister’s Office, to put remediation agreements into the law.
A few months after the public consultations in fall 2017, the Trudeau government included the Criminal Code amendment creating the agreements in last spring’s 582-page omnibus budget bill.
In his letter, Bruce asked Qualtrough and her staff to a meeting so he could answer questions about the company’s submission, explain its governance improvements and share its plans to expand from its Canadian base.
He argued that Canada needed a deferred-prosecution agreement option as well as “enhancements” to its integrity regime for government contractors to align with policies in places like the United States, United Kingdom and France.
These are related but separate issues. Deferred-prosecution agreements, or DPAs, are plea-bargain type arrangements for companies that can show they have straightened up after behaving corruptly. The government’s own integrity regime covers which suppliers Ottawa will do business with; it aims to keep public dollars away from bad actors.
“The time is right to address especially the DPA as well as the (integrity regime),” Bruce wrote to Qualtrough. “But time is also of the essence.”
He warned that Canadian engineering and consulting firms didn’t have a level playing field with their foreign competitors, operating in countries that had deferred-prosecution agreements in their laws when Canada didn’t.
From there, Bruce’s letter underscored the urgency several more times.
“SNC-Lavalin fully supports the need to take the time to conduct a credible, fair, open and transparent consultation process,” he wrote. “However, Canada is clearly behind in terms of using all possible tools to deal as effectively as possible with corporate economic crime … Accordingly, we urge the government of Canada to move forward as expeditiously as possible.”
An internal briefing note to Qualtrough about Bruce’s letter recommended she decline his invitation to meet and discuss SNC-Lavalin’s submission. Since the public consultations were being led by federal officials, the memo suggested that Barbara Glover, Public Services and Procurement’s assistant deputy minister for integrity, meet with Bruce instead.
Qualtrough agreed and signed off on a response letter to Bruce saying he should meet Glover. In that Oct. 31, 2017 letter, she thanked Bruce for his submissions and his participation in the consultation process.
Last week, Qualtrough was asked during an appearance before a parliamentary committee whether SNC-Lavalin had been among the stakeholders that provided input during the public consultations.
“I don’t know the list of the 300 organizations offhand that participated in the consultation,” she said in response to a Conservative MP’s question. “Sorry, I don’t mean to be difficult, but I can’t recall offhand.”
Later in the hearing, one of her officials confirmed the company was indeed among the participants.
The company and the remediation tool are now at the centre of a political storm that has walloped the Liberals. Even after remediation agreements were created last year, the director of public prosecutions decided not to invite SNC-Lavalin to negotiate one.
Former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould resigned from cabinet amid allegations that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his staffers and other senior officials improperly pressured her to stop a criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin.
Trudeau had denied that he or his officials inappropriately leaned on Wilson-Raybould.
Treasury Board president Jane Philpott handed in her resignation Monday. Philpott said she had lost confidence in the way the government has dealt with criminal charges against the company.
Trudeau named Qualtrough as acting president of the Treasury Board, adding oversight of government spending and human resources to her duties.
The federal government is still moving forward with changes to the integrity regime that could help beleaguered SNC-Lavalin.
Last week at committee, Qualtrough said the updated integrity regime, if adopted, will still carry a potential ban from federal contracts of up to a decade, depending on factors such as the severity of the transgression — but a draft of the new scheme released last fall shows there is no minimum ineligibility period.
Qualtrough said the new policy will be finalized in four to six weeks and will cover a wider range of offences.
Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press
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Referring to a cooperator as a “rat,” President Trump sometimes sounds like a mob boss. He may ultimately be prosecuted like one, too.
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York seems particularly well-situated to investigate a RICO case here. It has a strong history of using RICO with great success. In the 1980s, when the office was led by Rudolph Giuliani, prosecutors used RICO prosecutions to take down organized crime families. SDNY reportedly has entered into an immunity deal with Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, someone who is well-positioned to provide valuable information to prosecutors about any illegal financial transactions. SDNY has already convicted former Trump Organization attorney Michael Cohen of tax offenses, fraud, false statements and campaign finance violations, the last of which Cohen has said he committed at Trump’s direction. And, although he has fallen short of earning a formal cooperation agreement, Cohen has met with SDNY prosecutors to share information.
The search of Cohen’s home and office reportedly turned up a recording of some of his conversations, including one with Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who worked as a consultant on the inauguration. The Wall Street Journal has reported that, in the recording, Wolkoff expressed concern about how the inaugural committee was spending the record $107 million it had raised. Richard Gates, who has pleaded guilty in the Mueller probe, has also reportedly met with SDNY prosecutors. The Journalreported that as deputy chairman of the Trump inaugural committee, Gates asked vendors to accept payments directly from donors, a curious request that likely will draw the scrutiny of prosecutors at least in part because entities that bring in and distribute money can be used as vehicles for money laundering, a crime that may constitute a RICO racketeering predicate.
Even if SDNY follows the Justice Department policy that a sitting president cannot be indicted, nothing prohibits the Trump Organization or Trump’s associates from being indicted. In addition, even if a sitting president cannot be indicted, a former president can be. Under the statute of limitations, a RICO conspiracy may be charged up to five years after its last predicate racketeering act is committed. If any predicate act was committed on or after Jan. 20, 2016, the statute of limitations would not preclude an indictment from being filed on Jan. 20, 2021, the moment a president is sworn in, so long as that president is not Donald Trump.
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House Intelligence chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has hired Daniel Goldman, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, to lead the committee's revitalized investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, the New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin reports.
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ver the weekend, President Donald Trump addressed the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC), making multiple misleading claims about the economy, the wall and his tax cuts. According to the Washington Post, the speech contained 104 misleading claims, bringing his total number of false or fishy statements to roughly 9,014 over the course of his administration.
Raw Story spoke with Dr. Henry J. Friedman, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, about why the President finds it so easy to lie and the unique dynamic he has with his base that lets him get away with it.
Friedman is a contributor to “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President,” edited by Bandy X. Lee, the expanded edition of which is to be released this month. He brings a psychoanalytic perspective to understand the totalitarian mindset, which presents a multifold threat to the world.
Tana Ganeva: According to one report, Trump’s CPAC speech contained 104 instances of lies. Why do you think the President finds it so easy to lie?
Dr. Henry J. Friedman: When facing an audience that responds to him with adulation, he is inclined to present his worst tendencies in excess because he knows it pleases his base if he is extremely opposed to established standards of truth and politeness.
Trump’s base love him for liberating them to hate illegal immigrants and indulge their hatred of social change, of same sex marriage or woman’s rights and the rise of African Americans as a powerful political and social presence in the United States. His stance against equality for disavowed minority groups is exactly what they find attractive in him. He liberates their worst inclinations and fights against those who want to see the best in humanity dominate our society.
Tana Ganeva: How is the President different in front of his supporters?
Dr. Henry J. Friedman: He is empowered by such an audience to state things he wants to believe in as facts, as truths. He flirts with open totalitarian positions because these please this particular audience who find his authoritarian positions compatible with what they desire in a leader.
His base prefers a leader who is authoritarian and ruthless about getting what he personally wants, as this often reflects their experience with parents, particularly fathers who insisted on obedience. Trump demands that the world operate as he wants it to be, not as it actually is. Authority isn’t authoritarianism, hence it is easy to confuse a strong leader who represents all of our citizens from an authoritarian leader who panders to the worst desires of some groups in terms of their destructive impulses directed at other less powerful citizens.
Tana Ganeva: Can you explain why the President still has such a fervent following, despite arguably breaking a lot of his campaign promises, such as having Mexico pay for a wall at the Southwest border?
Dr. Henry J. Friedman: They respond not to his campaign promises or even to his actual accomplishments, which may be against their actual interests, but because his grandiose paranoid character appeals to them.
He always is ready to attack anyone who opposes him. His enemies are constructed by him, but they are what many individuals personally do in their own relationships with those around them. What his followers want is his immoderate, rash and destructive “self directed against an enemy.”
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His followers are pleased with his leadership because they believe in the dangers that he insists are present when in fact they are non-existent except in his paranoid thinking. A grandiose paranoid leader appeals to and preys upon the paranoid fears of the many citizens who constitute his base.
Tana Ganeva: How does your psychoanalytic background inform you about what is happening?
Dr. Henry J. Friedman: Absolutely, this kind of grandiose paranoid character is frequently encountered in our work with patients, but in a much attenuated form or only directed at those in the grandiose paranoid individual’s family or who are employed by him or her. Those of us who work with paranoid patients understand the insistent need to find an enemy, to see an exaggerated form of danger coming from the hated others who will damage you unless they are contained and ultimately destroyed either by deportation or simply being kept out of the country.
Tana Ganeva: How can mental health expertise help the nation?
Dr. Henry J. Friedman: By giving words and concepts from our work that help the public in putting words and concepts to the anxieties that they feel, without being able to label it in such a way that they understand why Trump must be opposed, not allow to do his “Hitler routine” and destroy the free press and any criticism of his behavior and desires.
The more Trump is able to destroy the free press by denouncing it as fake news, the more he will be able to keep the public uninformed and unable to oppose his draconian approach to anything or anyone who threatens his domination and control. We in mental health can see more clearly what others see, because we recognize it from our work in treating and evaluating those who are fearful and aggressive because they are filled with hatred and loathing of all who are different from them.
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