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RUSSIA/РОССИЯ THREAD—ASSANGE CHRGD W/ SPYING—DJT IMPEACHED TWICE-US TREASURY SANCTS KILIMNIK AS RUSSIAN AGNT
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They probably told her not to fraternize with the mascot
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Bruh, we're missing so much news.
5 russians indicted in murder for hire plot?
Money laundering?
Connections to Prighozin (Putin's "Chef")?
How big is this goddamn mob?!?!
Five Foreign Nationals Indicted on Murder-For-Hire, Money Laundering, and Immigration Charges
Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Eastern District of North Carolina
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Five Foreign Nationals Indicted on Murder-For-Hire, Money Laundering, and Immigration Charges
RALEIGH – Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned a superseding indictment charging five foreign nationals with various federal crimes stemming from a bribery and kickback scheme, including money laundering, immigration fraud, and a subsequent murder for hire plot.
Leonid Teyf, 57, currently living in Raleigh, North Carolina, is charged with bribing a public official, planning a murder-for-hire, and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number, and unlawful use of a visa procured through false claims.
Teyf is also charged with multiple counts of money laundering in conspiracy with his wife, Tatyana Teyf, 41, a Russian citizen, and Alexsy Timofeev, 37, also a Russian citizen currently residing in Darien, Illinois. Teyf, Tatyana Teyf, and Timofeev are additionally charged with Timofeev’s wife, Olesya Yuryevna Timofeeva, 41, for conspiring, and aiding and abetting one another to encourage and induce an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing and in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law. Alexei Polyakov, 40, currently residing in Raleigh, North Carolina, is also charged in the indictment with attempting to obtain naturalization through false statements.
The superseding indictment alleges that between 2010 and 2012, Leonid Teyf was the Deputy Director of Voentorg, a company which contracted with Russia’s Ministry of Defense to provide the Russian military with goods and services. Leonid Teyf arranged for subcontractors in Russia to fill the various services required by Voentorg’s contract. Leonid Teyf and others devised a scheme requiring the subcontractor to agree that a certain percentage of the government funds it would receive for completion of the work would be paid back to Leonid Teyf and others involved in the scheme. These kickbacks of government funds were paid in cash and amounted to more than $150 million over an approximate two-year span. Some of the money was paid to others involved in the scheme, and some of the money was placed in accounts under Leonid Teyf’s control – accounts within Russia, and, ultimately accounts located in the United States.
The superseding indictment additionally alleges that since at least December 2010, Leonid and Tatyana Teyf and others have opened at least 70 financial accounts at four financial institutions in their own names and in the names of businesses under their control. Leonid Teyf and others received at least 294 wires totaling approximately $39.5 million into four accounts held in Leonid Teyf’s name and the names of the co-conspirators at an American banking institution. Foreign corporations and bank accounts in countries commonly known to be used for money laundering are the source of 293 of the wires. Timofeev assisted Leonid Teyf in the formation of companies in the United States, including the creation of CTK Transportation Incorporated in Illinois, a business used in the money laundering scheme. Timofeev was involved in multiple financial transactions involving the kickbacks from Russia.
The superseding indictment also alleges that in July of 2018, Teyf knowingly used and possessed a U.S. immigrant visa at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport, which he had procured through false claims made in his I-140 application. To obtain that visa Teyf falsely claimed that he was entering the U.S. for the purpose of being an executive employee of a multinational company, and for whom he would earn an annual salary of $110,000.
Similarly, in 2016, an associate of Teyf, Alexei Polyakov, also made false statements in an effort to obtain immigration benefits. Polyakov falsely completed the Form N-400, application for naturalization, by failing to assert under penalty of perjury 1) that he had previously use the name “Alex Norka,” 2) that he had been arrested on at least 12 occasions in addition to the five reported occasions, and 3) by falsely underreporting the time he had spent in jail prior to the application.
As alleged in publicly available documents filed in federal court by the Government, during the course of the investigation into the money laundering charges, a Confidential Source utilized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation learned that Leonid Teyf came to believe that his wife, Tatyana Teyf, was having an affair with another man. Leonid Teyf recruited the Confidential Source to assist in planning for the man’s murder. The murder was to take place here in the United States or in Russia after they conspired to have the man deported. Leonid Teyf paid an employee with the United States Department of Homeland Security, who was working undercover, $10,000 to have the man deported from the United States. When the deportation plan was taking a longer period of time than he expected, Leonid Teyf returned to his murder-for-hire plan and paid the Confidential Source $25,000 to kill the man before the end of 2018. Leonid Teyf also supplied the Confidential Source with a firearm to commit the murder with the serial number removed from the weapon.
If convicted, Leonid Teyf would face maximum penalties of 20 years in prison. Tatyana Teyf, Alexsy Timofeev, Olesya Timofeeva, and Alexei Polyakov would face maximum penalties of 10 years in prison. The government will also seek to seize over $39 million in assets from the defendants. Each defendant will likely face the prospect of removal from the United States after their terms of imprisonment.
The charges and allegations contained in the superseding indictment, and related documents filed by the Government, are merely accusations. The defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law. The case is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, Immigration and Custom Enforcement and the Raleigh Police Department. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Jason Kellhofer and Barbara Kocher.
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Is the Cohen-in-Prague mystery about to be revealed at last? | Spectator USA
John R. Schindler
6-8 minutes
Yesterday, Michael Cohen, the president’s disgraced consigliere, accepted his fate. Although Cohen has assisted the Department of Justice in its inquiry into Donald J. Trump’s Kremlin connections, he nevertheless was sentenced to three years in Federal prison for myriad crimes, including hush-payoffs to two Trump mistresses, as well as lying to Congress.
The old Cohen, brimming with bravado about taking a bullet for his only client, taunting TV talking heads in Trump’s defense, is long gone. The new Cohen sounds contrite about his crimes, which he admitted. In the Federal court in Manhattan, he explained that his ‘blind loyalty’ to the president and Trump’s ‘dirty deeds’ constituted his downfall. Cohen added defiance: ‘The irony is today is the day I am getting my freedom back,’ exchanging a criminal client for the penitentiary.
On cue, the president took to Twitter this morning to lambaste his former attorney while explaining that there were no crimes committed at all. Trump pinned full responsibility on Cohen (‘He was a lawyer and he is supposed to know the law.’) who must now be wondering what he’s going to prison for if there were no crimes.
The customary Trumpian tweeting tirades aren’t stopping Robert S. Mueller, III, and his investigation, and even stalwart defenders of the president are expressing concerns about where this drama is headed. As Andrew Napolitano, the New Jersey judge turned Fox News pundit, explained yesterday, Cohen’s court ‘submissions place the president directly in the legal crosshairs of Federal prosecutors,’ adding the caution that Trump ‘cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Those consequences may be fatal to his presidency and to his liberty.’
If that weren’t enough for the White House to fret about, there’s the key matter of what Cohen did not speak about yesterday, above all President Trump’s reported connections to the Kremlin. This is something the newly sentenced felon is believed to know a great deal about. The controversial dossier compiled two years ago by the retired British spy Christopher Steele cited an alleged late August 2016 meeting in Prague with Russian intelligence to coordinate clandestine activities, including hacking, designed to harm Hillary Clinton and boost Trump’s campaign.
The Prague meeting, if it happened – Cohen understandably has always denied it did – is more than the vaunted ‘smoking gun.’ It would constitute proof of Trump’s collusion with the Kremlin to secure his election, something most Americans would fairly label treason. There may be a money trail of relevance here, as Cockburn noted in his column yesterday:
‘Pay especially close attention to a mysterious $50,000 payment to an unnamed tech company that – court filings reveal – Cohen made during the election campaign. Could these be the payment to “hackers” made in the Czech Republic described in the Steele dossier – and always, so far, publicly denied by Cohen and his lawyers?’:weebaynanimated:
Yes, it certainly could. Was the infamous Trump Tower meeting on June 9, 2016, between a Trump contingent led by the president’s eldest son and a Kremlin delegation headed by an admitted senior Russian government informant, merely the precursor to a more substantive meeting a couple months later in the Czech Republic? Cohen knows the truth here, and we can be sure that Mueller has asked him.:weebaynanimated:
However, there have long been reasons to doubt the Cohen-in-Prague saga, in part or in whole. There can be no doubt that, true to form, Russian spies have planted disinformation regarding the alleged meeting, including lies about Western intelligence on the Prague rendezvous, as part of an effort to muddy waters and confuse narratives. This usually indicates there’s something lurking which Moscow seeks to hide.
But what, exactly? There are three possibilities to ponder:
1) Cohen’s Prague meeting happened in August 2016, as the Steele dossier claimed. It is the cornerstone of the collusion narrative. Cohen’s denials, without assurances of leniency and protection from Mueller, would constitute common sense.
2) There was a secret meeting between Trump representatives (possibly including Cohen) and Russian spies, sometime in the summer of 2016, but not in Prague, and/or not when alleged. Such blending of fact and fiction would be entirely in Kremlin character.
3) There was no meeting at all. The Steele dossier, which included its share of Russian disinformation, reported a fabrication designed to smear Trump for kompromat-flavored reasons. Again, this would be a very Russian thing to do.
Earlier this year, there were reports that the Special Counsel had established that the Steele dossier’s account of the Prague meeting was true. US intelligence sources tell me, on the other hand, that the Kremlin has emitted an inordinate amount of disinformation about the Cohen-in-Prague narrative, and it’s proved difficult to establish firmly what really happened. As with so many cases involving Russian spies, the ‘wilderness of mirrors’ effect has set in, shrouding real events in a thick fog of deception.
That said, for Michael Cohen this ultimately is a simple matter. He either was in Prague in the late summer of 2016 to collude in secret with Kremlin representatives to boost his client’s campaign – or he was not. Whatever the truth is, Team Mueller knows what Cohen has told them, and they have enough intelligence from myriad sources, some of them highly classified, to determine whether Cohen’s account is factual.
Upon this issue hinge the fate and future of Donald J. Trump, his family, and his presidency. The president either secretly colluded with the Kremlin to win the White House, an act of high treason without precedent in American history, or he is the victim of an insidious smear of Russian origin designed to destroy him and his administration.
Bob Mueller and his seasoned investigators know the truth regarding Cohen-in-Prague. For the good of the country, we should hope they will be sharing their findings on this all-important issue with the public, in some form, sooner rather than later. My spy friends and former colleagues inside the Beltway are leaning towards sooner.
Will Michael Cohen keep helping Mueller from behind bars? | Spectator USA
Will Michael Cohen keep helping Mueller from behind bars? | Spectator USA
Many questions raised by the Steele dossier remain unanswered
Michael Cohen leaves US Federal Court in New York after his sentencing after pleading guilty to tax evasion, making false statements to a financial institution, illegal campaign contributions, and making false statements to Congress
Some might think Michael Cohen’s sentencing today means that Robert Mueller has finished with him. Not so. Under Rule 35 of federal criminal procedures, convicted offenders can get credit for their ‘substantial assistance’ after sentencing.
Hmm. It is possible, therefore, that Cohen is continuing to help Mueller. Pay especially close attention to a mysterious $50,000 payment to an unnamed tech company that – court filings reveal – Cohen made during the election campaign.
Could these be the payment to ‘hackers’ made in the Czech Republic described in the Steele dossiers – and always, so far, publicly denied by Cohen and his lawyers?
The dossier claimed that Cohen went to the Czech Republic in the summer of 2016 to pay off hackers and meet Kremlin agents to coordinate a cover-up of what had been done in the election campaign. This would be the collusion with Russia that President Trump has challenged his enemies to find.
If the Prague story is true, Cohen has to deny it because what (allegedly) took place there was treason, with a life sentence attached if found out – which is not the case with other evidence Cohen might give: saying he knows about the Don junior meeting with a Kremlin lawyer offering dirt on Hillary, for instance; or even that he was talking to Putin’s aides about Trump visiting Moscow to discuss building a tower. Cohen can tell tales about others but treason in Prague – if that’s what happened – implicates him directly.
Just how helpful has Trump’s ‘Ray Donovan’ been to investigators so far? According to Friday’s sentencing recommendation from the Southern District of New York, not as helpful as his legal team hoped:
‘Cohen did provide information to law enforcement, including information that assisted the Special Counsel’s Office in ongoing matters, as described in the SCO’s memorandum to the Court…but Cohen’s description of those efforts is overstated in some respects and incomplete in others. To be clear: Cohen does not have a cooperation agreement and is not receiving a Section 5K1.1 letter either from this Office or the SCO, and therefore is not properly described as a “cooperating witness,” as that term is commonly used in this District.’
That may change as Mr Cohen heads to the big house.
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In 2018, a spy got caught spying, admitted to it and is cooperating with federal prosecutors, all of which is unfolding in the public....sit back and take that in for a second.
Witch hunting found a witch
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Yoo....a councilwoman from some city in CA referenced QANON in her farewell speech
In a First, Lawmaker Cites QAnon Conspiracy From City Council Floor
In a First, Lawmaker Cites QAnon Conspiracy From City Council Floor
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By Way of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War
Y’all all have it wrong.. Butina will be played by Keri Russell!!