Former Fox News Director Jack Hanick Indicted for Helping Russia

[swag]

Source: Yahoo News

As the United States increasingly goes after some of the Kremlin’s business tentacles, the latest person arrested for violating U.S. sanctions against Russia is a former Fox News director who left to launch a Russian propaganda network.

The Department of Justice on Thursday revealed that Jack Hanick was quietly arrested in London on Feb. 3 for dodging U.S. sanctions by helping a sanctioned Russian oligarch, Konstantin Malofeyev, start his right-wing Tsargrad TV.

The DOJ simultaneously unsealed a grand jury indictment against him, accusing Hanick of knowingly engaging in business dealings with Malofeyev, who had been formally sanctioned by the U.S. government for his role in financing Russia-backed soldiers in eastern Ukraine who have violently tried to break off from the democratic country since 2014.

The indictment also accuses Hanick of lying to FBI agents about his travels to Greece and Bulgaria to expand the TV network in 2015 and 2016, when he was interviewed by American investigators last year in New York City.

Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/former-fox-news-producer-sean-210134835.html?soc_src=community&soc_trk=tw

[lapfog_1]

1. how fucked up is that?

Leave one Russian propaganda network to go start another Russian propaganda network!

[Justice matters.]

5. The Russian mob may offer more money to these

traitors?

[relayerbob]

8. They may be rolling over on them to get some US dollars pretty soon

[TeamProg]

38. +1 !!!

[AllyCat]

2. Sure this is the tip of the iceberg

Figures. Betting there are more where he came from.

[Botany]

3. And this mother fucker* was in Moscow in Nov. 2016 celebrating Trump's "win."

And at that Moscow Trump victory party there was one of the Russians from the June 2016
meet up @ Trump Tower too.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216434870

* And he was Sean Hannity's producer @ one time too.

DUer Nevilledog "Hannity: Never met the guy."

Just how deep into Fox News was and is Russia?

[2naSalit]

25. Murdoch has...

Sweet deals on every continent. Has one with China from way back in the late 1900s, been working on dominating the scene here since then at least.

[Botany]

36. Murdock and Putin have deep ties that go way back

Trump was just part of their program.

[2naSalit]

37. I agree.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Biden is very clever. The sanctions may catch US traitors.

[onetexan]

10. K&R

[Irish_Dem]

12. Maybe sitting senators taking Russian money could be in trouble too?

[onetexan]

14. Right on. I'm sure there's more to come out - Russian oligarch money taken by GOP members

of congress.

[Irish_Dem]

17. I hope so.

[ananda]

31. Oh please, make it so!

!!!

[monkeyman1]

24. the j-6 committee already are ! in that 61 page report last night !

that was sent To the D.O.J. !!

[Irish_Dem]

32. Great news.

[lagomorph777]

46. I hope (faintly) that DOJ is looking into that.

[2naSalit]

27. That came to mind...

Yesterday. The campaigns are going to have to work harder for their cash this year.

[Irish_Dem]

48. Right, no Russian money this year most likely.

Of course Putin has $200 Billion dollars stashed away.

[2naSalit]

49. I think that...

$200bil was put out of his reach too.

I suspect this is the reason MM had that sad look on his face during the STOU the other night. He looked like his dad just told him that he had to use all of his allowance for the next year to pay for the plate glass window he broke in the neighbor's house and that he had to get a job too.

[Irish_Dem]

50. I have been asking here if Putin's personal wealth was snagged and not received answers.

I am sure he has at least some of it stashed out of harm's way.

Right that sad look on McConnell's face made me wonder if his Putin check had bounced this month.

McConnell is cunning and ruthless. I assume he is making some sort of deal so that the GOP senators' Russian funding is not made public. He typically threatens horrendous actions to get his way. This almost always works for him. He knows where all the bodies are buried.

[AllaN01Bear]

6. wonder what the panama papers have to say about ths . when are thye going after fox owner.

[relayerbob]

7. Aw, what a shame

Now go after Murdock, Hannity and Carlson

[ShazzieB]

55. Yes, please.

[yaesu]

9. "The indictment also accuses Hanick of lying to FBI agents" the game over charge. nt

[Evolve Dammit]

11. The sedition and conspiracy runs deep. We need to dig deep. FBI/ DOJ please

[SheltieLover]

13. Now how about the ones who are still at Faux?

[monkeyman1]

28. they were list in that report too ! all three of non-news clown's !

[SergeStorms]

15. Former Fox Noise Director.

Well, if anyone would know how to build a propaganda network from the floor up, it would be Hanick.

What really pisses me off is this "Yahoo News" reporter not putting Fox "News" in parentheses, because its been well established that Fox does not report News! They manufacture propaganda for their far right-wing viewers, who only want to hear what they agree with. "News" never reaches their jaundiced minds.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

16. Ah, Pre-Ukraine sanctions

[Achilleaze]

18. Fox Republican TRAITORS

are only too happy to sell out America to enrich their own greedy butts.

Republicans represent a moral cesspool.

[orangecrush]

19. Great news!

More to come, I'm sure.

[Bristlecone]

20. Aiding and abetting

[paleotn]

21. Charged, tried, convicted, sentenced to....

the rest of his natural life contemplating his many errors while staring at cracks in the wall of his ADX Florence cell. He'll receive far less, but even life in supermax is far less than the deserves.

[ffr]

22. And yet TFG and all of his cronies run free without consequence?

Only the little guys get nabbed!

Well, DOJ? Keep going. Maybe in my lifetime you'll make your way up to the fat cat at the top orchestrating it all.

[BradBo]

35. And isn't that the most frustrating thing about this country.

We lay down the law to minor players. But if they have one ounce of power in right wing circles they either get off Scott free or a slap on the wrist. That shit makes me want to move away.
It’s like that DeJoy of the postal service. I can’t believe we can’t take him down.

[2Gingersnaps]

23. Ya can't argue the guy isn't qualified for the job!

Exactly what he did for FOX.

[Hiawatha Pete]

26. K&R

[NCjack]

29. Hey, Mr. Trump -- the FBI has Hanick and it is connecting the dots between you and Putin.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

30. Lock him up!!!!!

[SouthernDem4ever]

33. +1000

[Swede]

44. Every last one of them.

They are traitors.

[BradBo]

34. So as per the MAGA crowd, if found guilty,

he should be executed in public.

[TeamProg]

39. A few down, rest of NewsCorp to go.. n/t

[Talitha]

40. K&R

[Judi Lynn]

41. Ex-Fox News Producer Broke Law With Work for Russian Oligarch, U.S. Says

John Hanick was on Konstantin Malofeev’s

By Ed Shanahan and Benjamin Weiser
March 3, 2022
Updated 9:58 p.m. ET

A former Fox News producer was charged on Thursday with violating U.S. sanctions by working for a Russian oligarch who has been accused of being a leading financial supporter of separatists in Crimea and eastern Ukraine and has close ties to President Vladimir V. Putin.

The producer, John Hanick, was arrested in London last month and charged in U.S. District Court in Manhattan in what federal prosecutors said was the first such indictment stemming from sanctions imposed as a result of Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.

Konstantin Malofeev — the oligarch who employed Mr. Hanick, according to the indictment — was labeled “one of the main sources of financing for Russians promoting separatism in Crimea” by the Treasury Department when the sanctions were put in place in December 2014. Mr. Hanick worked for Mr. Malofeev from 2013 to 2017, the indictment says.

The case against Mr. Hanick, a 71-year-old U.S. citizen, was announced as the United States and much of the rest of the world continue to punish Russia financially amid broader efforts to halt its war on Ukraine. On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced a new task force to “hold accountable corrupt Russian oligarchs” who had supported the invasion.

More:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/nyregion/fox-producer-sanctions-russian-oligarch.html?auth=login-facebook



John Hanick

[Martin68]

42. The traitors are being rounded up slowly but surely, and using due process.

[GB_RN]

43. What Is It With These Treasonous Bastards?

This goes beyond the sedition of 1/6/21, this is treasonous behavior.

[lagomorph777]

45. It's a start, but Fox as a whole is the same thing.

We need to round them all up.

[IamHappy]

47. Flynn, Hannity and Graham next.

[flying_wahini]

51. I would just bet that Eric Prince is involved with it.

https://time.com/6076035/erik-prince-ukraine-private-army/


Sounds like something they would do. Their very own Gestapos.

[YoshidaYui]

52. Lock him up

Throw away the keys

[ificandream]

53. Why am I guessing that Fox (we report, you decide) won't report this story?

[poli-junkie]

54. What about Thiel resurrecting RT this week?

Shouldn’t this billionaire traitor get sanctioned?