Supreme Court says no to hearing Mueller's mysterious foreign corporation case

[pnwmom]

That means the appeals court decision stands. The company will face $50K per day fines (which could be further increased by the judge) till it complies with the subpoenas.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/25/supreme-court-denies-mystery-mueller-case-after-probe-finishes.html

The Supreme Court on Monday turned back a company locked in a secretive fight against Robert Mueller just days after the special counsel concluded his probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

In a brief order, the court said it would not review a decision by a federal appeals court in Washington that ordered the company, owned by an unknown foreign government, to comply with a subpoena or face a mounting daily fine, believed to be greater than $2 million at this point.

The legal battle stretches back to July, when a grand jury in Washington subpoenaed the company for information. The company sought to dismiss the subpoena, but was rejected twice in court before the Supreme Court looked at the matter.

In January, Chief Justice John Roberts declined to halt the daily fines as the court continued to review the case.

SNIP

HERE IS A RECENT COURT FILING.
The last page shows that this case was being handled jointly between the Special Counsel's office and the Fed prosecutor in D.C.

https://www.rcfp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Sealed-Case-Unsealing-Response-filed-2-5-19.pdf

[2naSalit]

1. Hmmm

I still think it could be Bank of Cyprus. But could be something else. Gotta wonder. Might be a hint at what Roberts is thinking these days.

[pnwmom]

2. They needed and didn't get 4 votes to hear it. So it's not just Roberts.

But the argument the foreign corporation was making -- that any foreign owned corporation should be exempt from criminal laws -- was kind of shocking.

[2naSalit]

3. Yeah, I thought

it was rather brazen of them. Might be pooteen owned entity.

[allgood33]

5. Also, might be owned by one of our closest allies? nt

[2naSalit]

10. Good point...

could well be. It probably exposes a lot of the enablers, can't have that.

[allgood33]

14. Shouldn't Dems be demanding to learn the ID of this bank?

Ir's really strange that so much is being done to hide this bank's ID.

[2naSalit]

15. That part stinks to high heaven...nt

[Firestorm49]

4. Deutschebank?

[2naSalit]

12. Seems like it

comes back around to them and they do have a reputation. There are too many entities to keep track of.

[Princess Turandot]

6. FYI The Bank of Cyprus is publicly traded on both the Cyprus and London stock exchanges..

So it isn't them. The company in question is owned by a foreign government.

This decision isn't too surprising. Every prior judge who has ruled on this so far has agreed with the prosecutors that the entity isn't exempt from compliance with GJ summons. Once SCOTUS reinstated the daily fine, it seemed likely that they were not inclined to disagree with the lower courts.

Of course, it may take take the threat of a criminal contempt citation and the slammer from the district court judge at this point for them to comply!

[2naSalit]

11. Didn't know that about BoC...

The rest I do. It's going to be an uphill molasses in January kind of fight.

[allgood33]

7. QUESTION: Were these documents material to the Russian/Trump investigation?

If so, and the documents were never turned over, how could the investigation have been completed?

[pnwmom]

8. The documents were involved in a case being jointly managed

by the Special Counsel's office and by the D.C. Federal prosecutor's office.

This must be one of those cases that Mueller farmed out around the country.

And this is why we've been saying that the Mueller investigation isn't really done -- he's seeded it all over the country.

Another important case is Roger Stone's, which isn't even scheduled for a trial till November. If he flips, that could be game-changing.

[allgood33]

9. Roger is not going to flip. He doesn't have to. He knows Trump will pardon him. nt

[gratuitous]

13. Headline writers are working hard to obscure stories

When I first read the headline, I thought it meant that the "mystery Mueller case" was dead, when in fact the Court declined to hear the mystery company's appeal trying to end the investigation. I wonder how many other people will stop at the headline and draw the wrong conclusion?