Mueller should investigate more than just the 2016 Trump campaign.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's proxy prosecutor in New York City has obtained a plea agreement with Michael Cohen on some pretty slimy personal-business issues, and in the process, obtained pleas to two federal campaign-finance-law violations ... that, from my experience as an attorney in the field, do not appear to violate federal campaign-finance law.
If Mueller is actually concerned, as his designated prosecutor in the Cohen case apparently is, about compliance with the federal statutes setting limits on contributions and reporting of expenditures by campaigns, parties, and candidates, his interest is long overdue.
Let's start with the payments from the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee to Fusion GPS for the infamous dossier that triggered the entire Mueller investigation of "Russian collusion." It is still not known how much the Democrats paid to Fusion GPS because that information has not been released, even though it was revealed almost a year ago that the source of payment was the Democrats.
Perhaps there is a conflict of interest for Mueller to investigate this matter, since it involves several of his own agents as potential witnesses, thus suggesting that the investigation of the Fusion GPS payments from Perkins Coie should be referred to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, in the same manner that Mueller transferred the Cohen case to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Cohen's guilty plea stated he violated federal contribution limits and reporting requirements with his payments of $25,000 during the 2016 calendar year to "Silence" two women making accusations against then-candidate Trump.
Mueller and his agents could spend 30 minutes reading the complaint in that lawsuit and the memorandum of understanding prepared by Marc Elias for and signed by the DNC and the Clinton campaign that gave Clinton control of the DNC's finances, activities, and expenditures, as well as the millions of dollars in proceeds of joint fundraising by the DNC, state Democratic parties, and the Clinton campaign.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/campaign-finance-law-clinton-campaign-committed-worse-violations/
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's proxy prosecutor in New York City has obtained a plea agreement with Michael Cohen on some pretty slimy personal-business issues, and in the process, obtained pleas to two federal campaign-finance-law violations ... that, from my experience as an attorney in the field, do not appear to violate federal campaign-finance law.
If Mueller is actually concerned, as his designated prosecutor in the Cohen case apparently is, about compliance with the federal statutes setting limits on contributions and reporting of expenditures by campaigns, parties, and candidates, his interest is long overdue.
Let's start with the payments from the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee to Fusion GPS for the infamous dossier that triggered the entire Mueller investigation of "Russian collusion." It is still not known how much the Democrats paid to Fusion GPS because that information has not been released, even though it was revealed almost a year ago that the source of payment was the Democrats.
Perhaps there is a conflict of interest for Mueller to investigate this matter, since it involves several of his own agents as potential witnesses, thus suggesting that the investigation of the Fusion GPS payments from Perkins Coie should be referred to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, in the same manner that Mueller transferred the Cohen case to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Cohen's guilty plea stated he violated federal contribution limits and reporting requirements with his payments of $25,000 during the 2016 calendar year to "Silence" two women making accusations against then-candidate Trump.
Mueller and his agents could spend 30 minutes reading the complaint in that lawsuit and the memorandum of understanding prepared by Marc Elias for and signed by the DNC and the Clinton campaign that gave Clinton control of the DNC's finances, activities, and expenditures, as well as the millions of dollars in proceeds of joint fundraising by the DNC, state Democratic parties, and the Clinton campaign.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/campaign-finance-law-clinton-campaign-committed-worse-violations/
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