FBI confirms agents are executing a search warrant at GOP Fundraiser/Consulting firm in Annapolis

[sunonmars]

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[octoberlib]

1. Holy shit!

[L. Coyote]

16. MENSCH: RICO case against GOP over Russian money laundering

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http://www.wbaltv.com/article/fbi-searching-annapolis-fundraiserconsulting-firm/9639787

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[L. Coyote]

56. More tweets. FBI covering windows at location with black trash bags:

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[L. Coyote]

66. Coincidence? FBI tweet 10:14 AM - 11 May 2017

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[barbtries]

2. yee haw

i hope they find the russian server.

[George II]

20. They already found that months ago in trump tower.

[barbtries]

45. yeah but did they have a warrant

could they take it into evidence?

[Feathery Scout]

47. Thought it wasn't in Trump Tower but a Trump Outpost

Somewhere in Pennsylvania. A small Trump Ad Agency...

[L. Coyote]

69. Correct. The server was not on the premises where the domain name was registered. That's normal.

The confusion is just IT illiteracy, not political illiteracy. But that too is problematic.

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[Feathery Scout]

72. Thanks!

[PunkinPi]

3. link to developing story at WBAL

http://www.wbaltv.com/article/fbi-searching-annapolis-fundraiserconsulting-firm/9639787

ETA: not much more than Jayne Miller's tweet there now.

[okieinpain]

73. that is a hell of a list of clients for a small article

WOW.

[blogslut]

4. Wonder who it could be?

Lot of them in Annapolis.

[herding cats]

7. Best guess

http://strategiccampaigngroup.com/

They've been accused of shady dealings in the past.

[blogslut]

8. ineed

They helped create PACs for John Bolton:

https://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/03/12/12296/john-bolton-forms-super-pac

[herding cats]

11. Yep.

Rule of thumb, anything Kelley Rogers is involved in is dirty. Remember the Conservative StrikeForce PAC lawsuit? Kelley Rodgers was also involved in that corrupt PAC.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

17. How come they don't list voter supression services?

I'd think that would be right up there on their firm resume'. I do like that when you hover over the services tab the first thing listed is "Republican campaign cons". I guess that's truth in advertising.

[herding cats]

5. Very interesting!!

K&R!

[sunonmars]

6. grabs popcorn

[WheelWalker]

9. Hoping this has to do with Priebus, McConnell, Ryan involvement in taking Russian money

for GOP campaigns.

[L. Coyote]

59. Manafort and his troupe of Bad Ass Dictator lobbyists.

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[MelissaB]

10. Yup! K&R

[L. Coyote]

12. RICO

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[CottonBear]

13. And here we go boys and girls....

Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy ride.

[ffr]

19. Did tRump piss down the FBI's trousers?

[Leghorn21]

35. Yes, and he barfed on their shoes, too! - RUT ROH!! eom

[iluvtennis]

52. Bette Davis...one of my favorite actresses

[CottonBear]

65. Excellent!

I paraphrased a bit.

Her delivery is so PERFECT! What a great actress!

[elmac]

14. They will probably find

a lot of new, empty hard drives and squeaky clean file cabinets. tRump has been busy covering up for months.

[montanto]

34. Sadly, this.

[ehrnst]

15. UPDATE: FBI investigation of GOP fundraising firm in Annapolis is run out of Washington, not local

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[ffr]

18. Follow up questions from that, for those wondering what that means.

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[NightWatcher]

21. The twitterverse is saying several warrants are being executed all over Virginia too

[ehrnst]

23. Can you share? (nt)

[ffr]

31. Search of Twitter: FBI warrants

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[Bettie]

22. That made me smile

and they are arrogant enough to believe they are untouchable, so who knows what might be there.

[blogslut]

24. I will now bet money it's Strategic Campaign Group

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[herding cats]

27. Beat me to it.

Now I'm really paying attention to this development.

[orangecrush]

25. Holy Poopballs!

[Sparkly]

26. Wow!!

[Sculpin Beauregard]

28. Yay!!!

[TNLib]

29. Link to firm

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[Jarqui]

30. Maybe this will lift some spirits around here

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[ffr]

32. If true, it'll lift the spirits of every oppressed man and woman on this planet!!!

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[paleotn]

58. This!

[ffr]

33. Can someone in Annapolis, MD, take a photo? Here's the address

191 Main Street, Ste. 310
Annapolis, MD 21401

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[bathroommonkey76]

43. Will this do?

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[MelissaB]

36. More info: FBI investigation of GOP fundraising firm in Annapolis is run out of Washington, not a lo

FBI investigation of GOP fundraising firm in Annapolis is run out of Washington, not a local case

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[Mr.Bill]

37. Shit's on!

Are they fueling Air Force One for a flight to Moscow?

[orangecrush]

40. DUzy!!!

[grantcart]

38. great day

[orangecrush]

39. Better them

Than me...

[bathroommonkey76]

41. Claude Taylor and Mensch were right!

Start believing non-believers.

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[Tommy_Carcetti]

42. Comeymas? nt

[mvd]

44. K&R

Pieces keep falling into place - now at a faster rate.

[notdarkyet]

55. Yeah, shame comey was bad at his job, like trump said, and he had to fire him.

[Sparkly]

46. I did find this...

https://www.politicallawbriefing.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2015/05/Cuccinelli-for-Governor-v.-Conservative-Strike-Force-PAC-Complaint.pdf

For whatever it's worth. Kelley Rogers is President of the Strategic Campaign Group... It seems that may be the one they're searching?

Edit: Cuccinelli won $85k in that case.

[Texin]

48. It would appear Trump kicked the hornets' nest Monday.

I'm curious as to why these particular warrants being undertaken simultaneously in Virginia are assumed by all to be related to the Trump campaign. The local offices seem to be related to all GOP, which casts a wide net, but it might not mean that Trump would be caught up in it, no? Weren't most of Trump's activities based in and maintained in New York? I'm wondering whether any shoes will start dropping there, but I guess that's a stupid thought since Giuliani has got the NY Bureau all buttoned down for Trump, apparently.

As others have noted, I'm somewhat skeptical that anything at all will be uncovered in this. Priebus, Trump, Kisliak (sp?), et al have had MONTHS, days and hours since the foreign installation to clean up their shit, and I expect they will have done so.

The single best method of bringing Trump down is: Trump. The more he keeps flapping his gibbering maw, the worse he makes it for himself. The interview he gave Lester Holt today is a glaring example. In that conversation, he said that Comey had told him three times on three separate occasions - two by telephone (IIRC), but he said the other time was "at dinner". DINNER?!!! What the actual fucking hell? I have got to wonder if there ever was an actual dinner engagement between the two. Seriously, does anyone really believe that after what happened with Loretta Lynch being buttonholed casually by Bill Clinton and brouhaha ensued thereafter that Comey would have sat down to break bread at dinner with this orange monstrosity while he was apparently having investigations done on him simultaneously? The only way this would have happened to allow the orange dumpster fire to be able to say this is if he happened to see Comey in the same restaurant while they were both dining - separately - and they exchanged greeting casually in passing. Trump keeps stating this three times denial (sorta biblical, ain't it?) over and over. He's obsessed with these purported "3 times" denial, but it would appear he's as full of shit as everyone deep down (and that includes his kool aid drinking true believers) knows he's just a bloviating huckster.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

57. Comey probably said "I'm not at liberty to say that" and tRump jumped to stupid conclusion. . nt

[SunSeeker]

62. Comey propably said it like Yates said it: "I can't say that."

Trump will claim that he understood that as a "no."

[Feathery Scout]

49. I want a link to TRUMP! Not just the GOP.

[iluvtennis]

54. Agree, me too

[Frustratedlady]

63. I want to see Ryan and McConnell, plus Trump...

then, let's bring in Nunes, Chaffetz, the family Trump and all those liars that have pocketed million$ and scoffed that the Democrats could make up such fake news.

I hope the entire party goes down. They can't learn their lesson any other way.

[Hekate]

50. Kick

[nocalflea]

51. Flood warning for DC: torrential flop sweat pouring from Capitol Hill !!

[Justice]

53. Three Principals - One is tied to BKSH and Associates - Manafort, Stone, et al. BOOM

Dennis Whitfield
Whitfield was later a director with BKSH and Associates where he provided strategic communications and government relations counseling to private sector clients in need of political, issue advocacy, grassroots and media strategies to support business and legislative objectives.
See - http://strategiccampaigngroup.com/about-scg/dennis-whitfield-senior-advisor


Black, Kelly, Scruggs & Healey, also known as BKSH & Associate
The firm came into being in 1996 through the merger of D.C. firms Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly and Gold & Liebengood
Charles R. Black Jr.
Paul J. Manafort
Roger J. Stone
Peter G. Kelly
R. Scott Pastrick
James C. Healey, Jr.

[ehrnst]

60. And Cuccinelli was in hot water because of not reporting payments to them...

The Federal Election Commission might not do much, but it does use the mail.

On Sunday, FEC analysts sent letters inquiring about misreported 2014 expenses by the controversial political action committee Conservative Strikeforce. The FEC notes that the PAC failed to correctly report payments to Strategic Campaign Group, Inc. and Active Engagement LLC, two firms among the group’s largest payees. Strategic Campaign Group partially owns and controls Conservative Strikeforce, according to a lawsuit filed last year.

The FEC’s inquiries draw new attention to a PAC long seen as “stealthy” by some and a “national fundraising scam” by others.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2015/06/controversial-pac-conservative-strikeforce-faces-fec-questions/

[L. Coyote]

61. Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly merged into BKSH, provided Iraq false intel for Bush

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[Justice]

70. Some of these tweets are getting ahead of actual news.

[L. Coyote]

64. FBI raids organization associated with Paul Manafort

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[Initech]

67. So... republicans, are you happy yet?

I'm going to keep asking this question.

[L. Coyote]

68. The perp is getting even more squirrely today:

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[annabanana]

71. Not a single peep on cable tv yet... n/t

[Thor_MN]

74. Sad that DU is becoming a front end for Twitter.

At this rate, by the end of the year, there will be no point in having a DU account. Everything will be just Twitter posts, devoid of any content, just links to inane 140 character bits of uselessness.

[L. Coyote]

75. And where did the news develop? There's a reason for posting tweets, story is developing on Twitter.

Or, you can just watch the 30 minute summary of the day on MSM.