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The Justice Department distanced itself on Sunday from Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trumps personal lawyer, declaring that department officials would not have met with Mr. Giuliani to discuss one of his clients had they known that federal prosecutors in New York were investigating two of his associates.
Several weeks ago, Brian A. Benczkowski, the head of the Justice Departments Criminal Division, and lawyers from the divisions Fraud Section met with Mr. Giuliani to discuss a bribery case in which he and other attorneys were representing the defendants.
That meeting took place before the United States attorneys office in Manhattan publicly charged the two Giuliani associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, with breaking campaign finance laws and trying to unlawfully influence politicians, including former Representative Pete Sessions, Republican of Texas. Mr. Parnas and Mr. Fruman were part of Mr. Giulianis effort to push Ukraine for an inquiry into Democrats.
When Mr. Benczkowski and fraud section lawyers met with Mr. Giuliani, they were not aware of any investigation of Mr. Giulianis associates in the Southern District of New York and would not have met with him had they known, said Peter Carr, a department spokesman.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/justice-department-distances-itself-from-giuliani/ar-AAJ4UcI?li=BBnb7Kz
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)and we've certainly never ever met him. Anyway, we only met him for a few minutes in passing, and we hardly spoke. I'm sure it wasn't for more than a few hours on two or three occasions. It might have been at breakfast after he spent the night when we were having our very brief affair. The lights were out most of the time, so I might not recognize him if I saw him again"
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,447 posts)Seems to me the only thing left is Barr's Dirt Services.