Mueller Makes Major Connection, Tying Secret Ukrainian Money to Trump Inauguration

[DonViejo]

by Matt Naham | 2:27 pm, August 31st, 2018

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CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz is now reporting that prosecutors are alleging that Patten sought tickets to Trump’s inauguration as president of the United States “on behalf of a prominent Ukrainian oligarch” and acted as a “straw purchaser” to do so. Prosecutors say Ukrainian money was secretly funneled to the inauguration committee “through a Cypriot bank account.”

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Why does this matter? It had already been reported as far back as April that Mueller was investigating whether “wealthy Russians illegally funneled cash donations directly or indirectly into Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and inauguration.”

Sources said at the time claimed that Mueller had a theory that “straw donors” (particularly Americans) acted as “a vessel through which they could pump money into the campaign and inauguration fund.” D.C. prosecutors are saying that this is exactly what happened in the case of Patten.

The latest news is that Patten has waived a trial by jury. The reason why is that he’s reached a plea agreement to cooperate with both Team Mueller’s investigation and D.C. prosecutors.

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A copy of the plea agreement is below.

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https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/mueller-makes-major-connection-tying-secret-ukrainian-money-to-trump-inauguration/

[triron]

1. This is HUGE!

[2naSalit]

2. Carry on Mr. Mueller!

[empedocles]

6. 2nd that

[Achilleaze]

3. republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief selling out America through his minions

Sick republican shit, betraying America. They all deserve JUSTICE. Lock the republican traitors up.

[SergeStorms]

39. The entire party?

To paraphrase Roy Scheider in 'Jaws', "We're going to need a bigger prison". The entire party is filled to the brim with crooks, traitors and liars.

[BlueJac]

46. spot on!

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. Is this the "something big is coming Friday" news item being teased yesterday?

[DonViejo]

8. There could be something else, it's only 2:53 p.m. on the Friday before Labor Day weekend but,...

we'll know for sure in a few hours.

[NRaleighLiberal]

13. thanks, my friend.

[exboyfil]

5. Mark Burnett come on down

So what did you do for that dirty foreign money?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Which cabinet officer runs/ran a Cypriot bank?

CommSec Wilbur Ross

[empedocles]

15. dots and dots

Amazing how they connect

[Botany]

20. "through a Cypriot bank account."

hmmm

[JPK]

37. THAT....

….was the first thing that entered my mind when I heard "laundered through a Cypriot bank". What Cypriot bank and what about Wilber? Oh God please, please......

[NewJeffCT]

9. nice job Mr. Mueller

This seems like it could be pretty big.

[triron]

10. From the WashPo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/washington-consultant-for-ukraine-party-set-to-plead-guilty-to-violating-lobbyist-disclosure-law/2018/08/31/172cf2c8-ad23-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html?wpmk=1&wpisrc=al_news__alert-politics--alert-national

[dalton99a]

11. Dirty Russian money.

[PearliePoo2]

12. Tighten the fucking noose around all their necks.

This is a big deal.

I hope BLOTUS just filled his knickers.

K&R

[Leghorn21]

14. K&R, one thousand times

[CatWoman]

16. WHOA!!!!!

[B Stieg]

17. Can't believe Chuck Todd was right!

Don't like Mr. Bothsiderism much, but he did say yesterday that today would be a big day.

REGISTER and VOTE!

[bigbrother05]

18. The Inauguration Committee didn't have to account for spending or limit contributions

What better way to fill a slush fund?

$26M going to a friend of Melania is legit, right? Wonder if she has a $25M pre-nup clause with a "finder's fee" for her friend?

[Duppers]

35. More emoluments clause indictments.

We need a calculator to keep track.

[blogslut]

19. This seems important.

It's hard to tell anymore because every day with BLOTUS is a swamp tsunami.

[NBachers]

21. I don't quite comprehend the full impact of this yet, but this seems like a "Holy Shit!" moment.

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[Ilsa]

25. Maybe Rachel will take us through this in detail tonight. nt

[Honeycombe8]

22. Well, well, well, now.

Now this is very interesting! The corner that Trump is getting painted into just got smaller, I think.

[GetRidOfThem]

23. Fake news! The MSM telling lies again!

And I bet you Google will show this story when searching Trump Inauguration (which was the bestest attended inauguration EVER), Liberal bias!

[Honeycombe8]

24. LOL! (but that is the response that we can expect) nt

[GetRidOfThem]

26. Remember the old days when we had LPs...

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... and once in a while there was a scratch?

<ok, I dated myself...>

[Honeycombe8]

30. I do, I do remember that. But it's far far back in my memory.

My family had a turntable and would play albums, so we did get scratches.

[GetRidOfThem]

32. That is where it comes from..

"..repeating itself like a broken record..."

[SunSeeker]

27. The Trump inauguration was a money laundering scam.

Like everything Trump does.

[Leghorn21]

28. Shimon just posted Giuliani's take on Patten's take-down:

Giuliani on Patten:
“It turned about to be this irrelevant indictment where I
think Mueller has turned out to be a private prosecutor...
nothing to do with collusion. they had 500k people donate
to the inauguration- every time they get a speeding ticket is
Mueller going to do it?”

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this fuckin guy!!

[procon]

29. Trump's commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross was the vice-chairman of the

Bank Of Cyprus", so was he likely involved in funneling Russian and Ukrainian dirty money through "a Cypriot bank account" to launder money through Trump's inauguration committee?

[triron]

31. Boy that would be quite a story, wouldn't it?

[Eyeball_Kid]

45. He got the Cabinet job to protect Trumpy and to keep his mouth shut. n/t

[Duppers]

33. Crimes

TRump pocketed unspent inauguration money, so that's another crime. More emoluments clause indictments.

[Grasswire2]

42. Didn't they pay 25 million bucks to Melania's best friend, too? nt

[Duppers]

43. Yep.

Quite an event planner there.

[oswaldactedalone]

34. Great

But I'm just counting down the days to Fitzmas. Dump will skate, the Fake Congress will do nothing, and a few guys will pull a few months at a federal country club. Sorry for the negative viewpoint but I've been waiting to unwrap Mueller's presents for months, and still not even an ugly sweater.

[Doodley]

36. All roads lead to the idiot in chief.

[JPK]

38. And what about.....

….the stupid amount of money Milania's inaugural designer or whatever the hell she was, got millions to basically do nothing? Hmmmm. The Trump washing machine was working overtime. Everybody gets a machine.

[Scurrilous]

40. K&R

[CatWoman]

41. nother

[meow2u3]

44. "No collusion"

My pig's eye!