New DA comes in and prosecutors resign, explicitly protesting that they very much can prove their case beyond a reasonable dbout.
This is all normal.
Actually, that's the thing. Idiom aside, it is all normal in a country that worships money above all else for the rich and connected to skate.
"Oh my
Life has passed me by
The country I was brought up in
Fell apart and died..."
Another connection has emerged between Donald Trump and Felix Sater, the Russian emigre and ex-con who's become a key figure in widening investigations into ties between Trump associates and Russian figures.
web.archive.org
Trump campaign bodyguard linked to ex-con who’s key in Russia probes
BY BEN WIEDER AND KEVIN G. HALL
khall@mcclatchydc.com
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
"WASHINGTON - Another connection has emerged between Donald Trump and Felix Sater, the Russian emigre and ex-con who's become a key figure in widening investigations into ties between Trump associates and Russian figures.
Trump plays down his relationship with Sater, despite growing evidence of links between the two, including recently published emails detailing how Sater worked with a top Trump Organization lawyer on a planned Moscow property deal as late as 2016, during the presidential campaign.
McClatchy’s investigation now shows that a trusted Trump security aide hired in 2015 had intimate knowledge that Sater, twice convicted, had a criminal past and underworld connections.
Before he became Trump’s bodyguard,
Gary Uher was an FBI agent involved in a complex deal to bring Sater back from Russia in the late 1990s. The resulting plea deal allowed Sater to avoid prison time in a Wall Street probe by serving as a government informant until his sentencing in 2009. During much of the time that he was a secret informant, Sater was a Trump Organization business associate, working on projects in New York, Florida and Arizona...
...FBI veterans loosely divide agents into two categories: the brainy, whose talents tend toward pursuing paper trails, and the brawny, who prefer to be out on the street and can be more inclined to be part of a security detail. Tall, thick and imposing,
Uher fell into the latter category. ...Recent court documents obtained by McClatchy
show that Uher, after leaving the bureau,
was referred to the Trump Organization in 2015 by Bernard Kerik, ... imprisoned in 2010 after pleading guilty to tax fraud and making false statements in a federal bribery probe....
Uher said in a court deposition that
he and Kerik had known each other since the early 1980s in New Jersey, when Kerik trained Uher in the Passaic County Sheriff’s Department.
....
While Sater was in Russia, New York City police stumbled on a Manhattan storage locker belonging to him that held weapons and documents revealing details of the stock manipulation scheme.
And that’s where Uher and Sater’s lives seem to have first intersected.
As an FBI agent,
Uher worked closely with a government informant named Lawrence Ray. In a 2000 affidavit,
Ray said he was dispatched to Russia by the FBI to lure Sater home. McClatchy has corroborated much of what Ray testified to in the affidavit. A convict who has served prison time,
Ray had business interests in Russia. He was eventually charged in the same investigation that swept up Sater and associates. ..."
From my last post, attempt by Stone to obtain preemptive pardons, IOW, second round of Trump pardons for both men!
"Stone’s top priority was protection for himself and Kerik, who had
been previously pardoned by Trump for felonies including tax fraud before he worked on the effort to overturn the election..."
Continued in my next post....
