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UpInArms

(51,284 posts)
Fri Apr 6, 2018, 07:48 AM Apr 2018

Mueller has evidence raising questions about Prince testimony on meeting with Russian: Sources

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mueller-evidence-ra

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained evidence that calls into question Congressional testimony given by Trump supporter and Blackwater founder Erik Prince last year, when he described a meeting in Seychelles with a Russian financier close to Vladimir Putin as a casual chance encounter “over a beer,” sources tell ABC News.

Well-connected Lebanese-American businessman George Nader, a key witness given limited immunity by Mueller, has been interviewed seven times by prosecutors on a wide range of subjects. He told investigators that he set up a meeting in the Seychelles between Prince and Russian sovereign wealth fund CEO Kirill Dmitriev, mere days before Trump was inaugurated, sources familiar with the investigation said this week.

Nader has submitted to three interviews with special counsel investigators and four appearances before a federal grand jury in Washington since agents stopped him at Dulles International Airport in January, served him with a grand jury subpoena and seized his electronic devices, including his cell phone. Documents obtained by Mueller suggest that before and after Prince met Nader in New York a week before the trip to the Seychelles, Nader shared information with Prince about Dmitriev, sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News, which appears to be inconsistent with Prince’s sworn testimony before a U.S. House of Representatives investigative panel.

"I didn't fly there to meet any Russian guy," Prince told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in November. He testified that he travelled to the Seychelles for a meeting with United Arab Emirates officials about possible business opportunities, and they introduced him – unexpectedly – to Dmitriev.

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Mueller has evidence raising questions about Prince testimony on meeting with Russian: Sources (Original Post) UpInArms Apr 2018 OP
link to source seems broken neohippie Apr 2018 #1
Mueller has evidence that Trump supporter's meeting with Putin ally may not have been a chance enc riversedge Apr 2018 #3
Republicans lying under oath? Oh my. Call the republican Perjurer General Achilleaze Apr 2018 #2

neohippie

(1,142 posts)
1. link to source seems broken
Fri Apr 6, 2018, 08:26 AM
Apr 2018

Here is the link


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian/story?id=54277090&cid=clicksource_4380645_1_hero_headlines_bsq_hed

This Nader guy seems to be a real piece of work.

Back in 1991 he was convicted for bringing video tapes with child pornography from Germany into the US, but since he also had close relationships with terrorists kidnappers, the US thought that they would let him off lightly becasue he was willing to help negotiate to free their hostages.

His conviction was only supposed to be sealed for 6 months, and it wasn't revealed until just recently 26 years later.

These are the kinds of people that Erik Prince, the Russians and Trump have no problems working with, because they want to normalize corruption like this in our country now to as long as it keeps that oligarch money pumping into their coffers

riversedge

(70,220 posts)
3. Mueller has evidence that Trump supporter's meeting with Putin ally may not have been a chance enc
Fri Apr 6, 2018, 05:14 PM
Apr 2018

article also says Mueller has not asked Prince to appear as of late March. waiting waiting....


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian/story?id=54277090


Mueller has evidence that Trump supporter's meeting with Putin ally may not have been a chance encounter: Sources

By Pierre Thomas
James Gordon Meek

Apr 6, 2018, 10:59 AM ET

Erik Prince, former Navy Seal and founder of private military contractor Blackwater USA, arrives to testify during a closed-door House Select Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill Nov. 30, 2017.
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WatchMueller obtains evidence about Seychelles meeting

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained evidence that calls into question Congressional testimony given by Trump supporter and Blackwater founder Erik Prince last year, when he described a meeting in Seychelles with a Russian financier close to Vladimir Putin as a casual chance encounter “over a beer,” sources told ABC News.
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Well-connected Lebanese-American businessman George Nader, a key witness given limited immunity by Mueller, has been interviewed seven times by prosecutors on a wide range of subjects. He told investigators that he set up a meeting in the Seychelles between Prince and Russian sovereign wealth fund CEO Kirill Dmitriev, mere days before Trump was inaugurated, sources familiar with the investigation said this week.

Nader has submitted to three interviews with special counsel investigators and four appearances before a federal grand jury in Washington since agents stopped him at Dulles International Airport in January, served him with a grand jury subpoena and seized his electronic devices, including his cell phone. Documents obtained by Mueller suggest that before and after Prince met Nader in New York a week before the trip to the Seychelles, Nader shared information with Prince about Dmitriev, sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News, which appears to be inconsistent with Prince’s sworn testimony before a U.S. House of Representatives investigative panel.

"I didn't fly there to meet any Russian guy," Prince told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in November. He testified that he travelled to the Seychelles for a meeting with United Arab Emirates officials about possible business opportunities, and they introduced him – unexpectedly – to Dmitriev.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
2. Republicans lying under oath? Oh my. Call the republican Perjurer General
Fri Apr 6, 2018, 08:43 AM
Apr 2018

to cover this routine behavior up. IOKIYAR.

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