October 26, 2017, 06:00 AM
downtownvFBI informant released from confidentiality agreement, now can testify about Russian nuclear bribes
FBI informant released from confidentiality agreement, now can testify about Russian nuclear bribes
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A former FBI informant can now testify to Congress about the Russian nuclear industry's bribery and money laundering during the time of the Obama administration, after being released from a confidentiality agreement by the Justice Department on Wednesday.
Congressional committees have attempted to interview the unidentified informant, but were unable to because of a nondisclosure agreement he had signed with the FBI. In 2016, the Justice Department required him to withdraw a lawsuit that claimed he would raise the case during the 2016 election.
"As of tonight, the Department of Justice has authorized the 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 one member of each of their staffs, any information or documents he has concerning alleged corruption or bribery involving transactions in the uranium market, including but not limited to anything related to Vadim Mikerin, Rosatom, Tenex, Uranium One, or the Clinton Foundation," Ian Prior, principal deputy director of public affairs at the Justice Department, said in a statement sent to the Washington Examiner.
The informant's identity has not been publicly disclosed because he was undercover for almost five years. During that time, he provided agents information about Russia's atomic energy business in the U.S.
Victoria Toensing, who is representing the informant, said the FBI had submitted a letter stating there was no reason for the informant's work to be kept confidential, according to The Hill. This means he is allowed to possibly testify before various committees in Congress, including the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Intelligence Committee, and the House Oversight and Reform Committee.
"The FBI has informed me that they are releasing my client from his NDA so that he can testify to Congress about his work uncovering the Russian nuclear bribery case and the efforts he witnessed by Moscow to gain influence with the Clintons in hopes of winning favorable uranium decisions from the Obama administration," Toensing said.
"He is now able and willing to talk with the confessional committees seeking his testimony though I will be working with all parties to ensure his identity remains confidential to ensure his safety," she added.
A report from The Hill last week revealed that the FBI has evidence dating as far back as 2009 that nuclear industry officials from Russia had been involved in bribery, kickbacks, extortion, and money laundering that benefited Russian President Vladimir Putin's atomic energy project expansion with the U.S.
The report also verified that Russians sent millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation from 2009 to 2013 while she was serving as secretary of state.
http://www.washingtonexaminer....ibes/article/2638658October 26, 2017, 08:01 AM
BMRHere's a great article from American Thinker. It sums up my feelings on Uranium One and justice.
October 26, 2017
Uranium One: Will Justice be Done?
By J. Robert Smith
Not much distance was needed to gain confirmation. The Trump-Russian
collusion charges were all deception and diversion. It reeks of conspiracy.
It was Plan B in the Clintons' and Democrats' playbook. Plan A was the
election of Hillary as president. From the Oval office, she'd bury Uranium
One deeper than any nuclear waste could be in Yucca Mountain.
The collusion nonsense was an attempt to frame an innocent man, Donald
Trump. The principal aim: Save the necks of the Uranium One culprits. Let
that sink in. We can be sure the president has.
House Republicans have just launched an investigation into the Uranium One
deal. The deal happened during Obama's tenure. That's no coincidence -- not
with Hillary Clinton around. The former president may be neck-deep in
yellowcake. Uranium One is a tangled web of criminality. It appears to
involve higher-ups -- elected and appointed -- on an unprecedented scale.
The bigger allegations: Massive payoffs to the Clintons, via their
foundation. Bill also pocketed a cool half million dollars for a speech in
Russia -- suspiciously at the time the Uranium One deal was developing.
National security breaches by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in which
Obama may be complicit. That's along with his then-attorney general, Eric
Holder. A coverup, involving the Clintons (of course), Obama, Holder, Lynch,
maybe McCabe, maybe Mueller, maybe Rosenstein, more likely maybe Comey.
Who are we missing? Obama White House maids, butlers, and kitchen help have
yet to be implicated.
The big questions are: if allegations bear out, will the Clintons and their
coconspirators be held accountable for their criminality? Is a special
counsel in the offing? (Jeff Sessions, call the office.) If a special
counsel finds wrongdoing, will indictments be referred? That's regardless
the star-power of the culprits. Will justice be done, or will the wrongdoers
slip -- legal -- nooses? Slipping nooses is a Clinton artform.
Tuesday evening, Newt Gingrich declared to Sean Hannity that Uranium One
will be the biggest political scandal in U.S. history. That's not hyperbole.
Watergate pales by comparison. The Teapot Dome scandal didn't involve
selling out a national security asset to a rival nation -- Russia. Putin's
Russia, which -- irony of ironies --Democrats and establishment Republicans
have been decrying as Enemy Number One. You have to marvel at the audacity.
The massiveness of the corruption, the breaches of national security, the
players involved, and the daring to misdirect and coverup should stun -- but
for the names central to the plot: Bill and Hillary Clinton. They're proof
of reincarnation. They're the Borgias sans miters. The Borgias weren't just
scoundrels, they were evil.
So are the Clintons -- from sex scandals to dirty money to enemies' lists
and revenge. decades worth of sordidness and corruption. They've tainted
about everything and everyone they've touched. Future generations will be
intrigued and appalled. How on earth did these rogues get away with serial
lawbreaking? How? They were excused and abetted by Democrats and the MSM.
Political gain, power, and money -- which flowed from Clintons' successes --
had Faustian seductiveness.
So, will justice be done? Can the nation tolerate no justice in this affair?
If investigations substantiate allegations, but the culprits - and not just
the Clintons -- get away with crimes, what harm is done to the nation?
If the Uranium One rogues' gallery are guilty but skate, it will rupture
whatever faith is left in the U.S. justice system. It will hang a cloud over
federal law enforcement; chiefly, the FBI. Everyday Americans' belief will
be validated: justice is for them, not for the rich, powerful, and
connected. So great a rupture will be hard to fix.
Justice, mind you, means criminal punishment. That's not to be confused with
the punishments typically meted out by elites toward miscreant elites. You
know, shunning, board directorships stripped, loss of book deals, and pricey
speaking gigs evaporating.
Justice is investigations, fairly and thoroughly conducted, that lead to the
truth. It's indictments, if warranted (and everything points that way). It's
prosecutions - and not just of those down the chain.
The risks to national security and the depth of venality that are part and
parcel of Uranium One means getting at the truth and sparing no one. No
chatter about sparing the nation the trauma of months of trials of people
who once held -- or who now hold -- high stations and the public trust.
Because it's precisely the public trust that hangs in the balance.
Saying that, President Trump must catch his breath at times, as he weighs
the impact of criminal investigations and indictments. Even a man as bold as
Trump must be shaken by what needs to be done to remedy wrongdoings of
historic magnitude.
Short term, bringing powerful Democrats and high profile federal appointees
to justice is sure to roil the nation. Democrats, the left, and the MSM are
sure to stir up trouble among their partisans. They'd see powerful
personages on their side going down as threats to political fortunes --
theirs. It's also sure to discomfit segments of Americans to witness former
presidents and high officials in federal courtrooms, attorneys pleading
their cases.
But as Lincoln once said, "Let the grass grow where it may." There's no gain
without pain. Whatever the passions and tumult are in the moment, justice
done in Uranium One makes for a stronger nation in the long run. Americans
must see that the system can be cleaned up and act on the side of the
angels.
Let's underscore that the Uranium One scandal is a greatly disturbing -- and
actually frightening -- affair. It sets a dangerous precedent - if real
justice isn't sought and rendered. High officials -- elected and appointed,
existing and former -- willingly compromising national security for bribes,
and then covering up the affair. Getting away with it could only embolden
unscrupulous characters to dare similar crimes in the future. Not just the
welfare but the lives of Americans could be endangered.
Bad people with vaulting ambitions there always will be. But their bad deeds
must be punished -- doubly so for acts of treachery. treachery by the very
men and women sworn to uphold the law and protect the nation.
http://www.americanthinker.com...one_will_justice_be_done.html
October 26, 2017, 08:21 AM
sdyquote:
How much is this person really going to reveal?
Last year the undercover witness attempted to file a lawsuit that could have drawn attention to the Russian corruption during the 2016 presidential race as well as helped him recover some of the money Russians stole from him through kickbacks during the FBI probe.
When he tried to bring some of the allegations to light in the lawsuit last year, “
the Obama Justice Department threatened him with loss of freedom . They said they would bring a criminal case against him for violating an NDA,” she added.
“The government was taking a very harsh position that threatened both your reputation and liberty,” the civil lawyer wrote in one email. In another, she added, “As you will recall the gov’t made serious threats sufficient to cause you to withdraw your civil complaint."
Loretta Lynch ? Federal court records from 2014 and 2015 show that a wide-ranging FBI probe into Russian nuclear industry corruption was facilitated by an unnamed American consultant who worked for the Moscow-based nuclear energy giant Rosatom's Tenex subsidiary on a multiyear campaign to grow Moscow's uranium business inside the United States.
Those efforts included winning U.S. approval of Rosatom's controversial purchase of Canada-based Uranium One's American uranium assets, securing new approvals to sell new commercial uranium to the federally backed United States Enrichment Corporation and winning billions in new U.S. utility contracts for Russian nuclear fuel.
The records make clear he came to the FBI immediately after Russian officials asked him to engage in illegal activity in 2009.
Sources told The Hill the informant's work was crucial to the government's ability to crack a multimillion dollar racketeering scheme by Russian nuclear officials on U.S. soil that involved bribery, kickbacks, money laundering and extortion. In the end, the main Russian executive sent to the U.S. to expand Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear business, an executive of an American trucking firm and a Russian financier from New Jersey pled guilty to various crimes in a case that started in 2009 and
ended in late 2015 .
The information the client possesses includes specific allegations that Russian executives made to him about how they facilitated the Obama administration's 2010 approval of the Uranium One deal and sent millions of dollars in Russian nuclear funds to the U.S. to an entity assisting Bill Clinton's foundation. At the time, Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary of State on the government panel that approved the deal, the lawyer said.
http://thehill.com/policy/nati...about-russia-nuclear
