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>that's a fact
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If you ridin around the city with nowhere to go
Live today cause tomorrow man, you never know
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mueller-prosecutor-andrew-weissmann-we-could-have-done-more-in-russia-investigation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/11/mueller-stone-oped
https://outline.com/Vcm2FP
Robert Mueller: Roger Stone remains a convicted felon, and rightly so
Robert S. Mueller III July 11, 2020
The work of the special counsel’s office , its report, indictments, guilty pleas and convictions , should speak for itself. But I feel compelled to respond both to broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motives were improper, and to specific claims that Roger Stone was a victim of our office. The Russia investigation was of paramount importance. Stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes. He remains a convicted felon, and rightly so.
Russia’s actions were a threat to America’s democracy. It was critical that they be investigated and understood. By late 2016, the FBI had evidence that the Russians had signaled to a Trump campaign adviser that they could assist the campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to the Democratic candidate. And the FBI knew that the Russians had done just that: Beginning in July 2016, WikiLeaks released emails stolen by Russian military intelligence officers from the Clinton campaign. Other online personas using false names — fronts for Russian military intelligence — also released Clinton campaign emails.
Following FBI Director James B. Comey’s termination in May 2017, the acting attorney general named me as special counsel and directed the special counsel’s office to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The order specified lines of investigation for us to pursue, including any links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump campaign. One of our cases involved Stone, an official on the campaign until mid-2015 and a supporter of the campaign throughout 2016. Stone became a central figure in our investigation for two key reasons: He communicated in 2016 with individuals known to us to be Russian intelligence officers, and he claimed advance knowledge of WikiLeaks’ release of emails stolen by those Russian intelligence officers.
We now have a detailed picture of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. The special counsel’s office identified two principal operations directed at our election: hacking and dumping Clinton campaign emails, and an online social media campaign to disparage the Democratic candidate. We also identified numerous links between the Russian government and Trump campaign personnel — Stone among them. We did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government in its activities. The investigation did, however, establish that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome. It also established that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts.
Uncovering and tracing Russian outreach and interference activities was a complex task. The investigation to understand these activities took two years and substantial effort. Based on our work, eight individuals pleaded guilty or were convicted at trial, and more than two dozen Russian individuals and entities, including senior Russian intelligence officers, were charged with federal crimes.
Congress also investigated and sought information from Stone. A jury later determined he lied repeatedly to members of Congress. He lied about the identity of his intermediary to WikiLeaks. He lied about the existence of written communications with his intermediary. He lied by denying he had communicated with the Trump campaign about the timing of WikiLeaks’ releases. He in fact updated senior campaign officials repeatedly about WikiLeaks. And he tampered with a witness, imploring him to stonewall Congress.
The jury ultimately convicted Stone of obstruction of a congressional investigation, five counts of making false statements to Congress and tampering with a witness. Because his sentence has been commuted, he will not go to prison. But his conviction stands.
Russian efforts to interfere in our political system, and the essential question of whether those efforts involved the Trump campaign, required investigation. In that investigation, it was critical for us (and, before us, the FBI) to obtain full and accurate information. Likewise, it was critical for Congress to obtain accurate information from its witnesses. When a subject lies to investigators, it strikes at the core of the government’s efforts to find the truth and hold wrongdoers accountable. It may ultimately impede those efforts.
We made every decision in Stone’s case, as in all our cases, based solely on the facts and the law and in accordance with the rule of law. The women and men who conducted these investigations and prosecutions acted with the highest integrity. Claims to the contrary are false.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/nation-world/former-mueller-prosecutor-writing-book-on-investigation/507-ace137dc-c630-449e-a1aa-a5756d5b4a8a
Former Mueller prosecutor writing book on investigation
Random House announced that Andrew Weissmann’s “Where Law Ends” will be published Sept. 29.
NEW YORK — A top prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller has a book coming out this fall about the two-year investigation into the alleged ties between Russia and the 2016 campaign of President Donald Trump.
Random House announced Monday that Andrew Weissmann's “Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation” will be published Sept. 29. Weissmann, often the target of criticism from Trump supporters, is calling the book a meticulous account of the Mueller team's probe and its ongoing battles with the Trump administration.
“I felt it was necessary to record this episode in our history, as seen and experienced by an insider,” he said in a statement. “This is the story of our investigation into how our democracy was attacked by Russia and how those who condoned and ignored that assault undermined our ability to uncover the truth. My obligation as a prosecutor was to follow the facts where they led, using all available tools and undeterred by the onslaught of the president’s unique powers to undermine our work.
"I am deeply proud of the work we did and of the unprecedented number of people we indicted and convicted — and in record speed. But the hard truth is that we made mistakes. We could have done more. ‘Where Law Ends’ documents the choices we made, good and bad, for all to see and judge and learn from.”
Weissmann, who worked as an FBI general counsel under Mueller, gained prominence as a prosecutor investigating organized crime in New York City and for his leadership of a task force looking into the Enron scandal. He has a reputation for being aggressive and experienced, and skilled in developing cooperating witnesses. Under Mueller, Weissmann led the case against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in 2018.
The Mueller Report, released in April 2019, found no criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to tip the outcome of the 2016 presidential election in Trump’s favor. But it also did not reach a conclusion on whether the president had obstructed justice. The investigation did lead to more than 30 indictments, including Manafort, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and longtime Trump friend Roger Stone, whose sentence for seven felony crimes was commuted last week by the president.
That is so unacceptable.
one of the biggest trips for me was realizing the shills can't meme
and it's not just a trivial matter, it's the fact that they do not have the mental capacity to grapple with truth the way we do
all they have is reactive emotions
>Andrew Weissmann's “Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation”
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634189/where-law-ends-by-andrew-weissmann/
In the first and only inside account of the Mueller investigation, one of the special counsel’s most trusted prosecutors breaks his silence on the team’s history-making search for the truth, their painstaking deliberations and costly mistakes, and Trump’s unprecedented efforts to stifle their report.
“WHERE LAW ENDS TYRANNY BEGINS”—John Locke, inscribed on the wall of DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C.
In May 2017, Robert Mueller was tapped to lead an inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, coordination by foreign agents with Donald Trump’s campaign, and obstruction of justice by the president. Mueller assembled a “dream team” of top prosecutors, and for the next twenty-two months, the investigation was a black box and the subject of endless anticipation and speculation—until April 2019, when the special counsel’s report was released.
In Where Law Ends, legendary prosecutor Andrew Weissmann—a key player in the Special Counsel’s Office—finally pulls back the curtain to reveal exactly what went on inside the investigation, including the heated debates, painful deliberations, and mistakes of the team—not to mention the external efforts by the president and Attorney General William Barr to manipulate the investigation to their political ends.
Weissmann puts the reader in the room as Mueller’s team made their most consequential decisions, such as whether to subpoena the president, whether to conduct a full financial investigation of Trump, and whether to explicitly recommend obstruction charges against him. Weissmann also details for the first time the debilitating effects that President Trump himself had on the investigation, through his dangling of pardons and his constant threats to shut down the inquiry and fire Mueller, which left the team racing against the clock and essentially fighting with one hand tied behind their backs.
In Where Law Ends, Weissmann conjures the camaraderie and esprit de corps of the investigative units led by the enigmatic Mueller, a distinguished public servant who is revealed here, in a way we have never seen him before, as a manager, a colleague, and a very human presence. Weissmann is as candid about the team’s mistakes as he is about its successes, and is committed to accurately documenting the historic investigation for future generations to assess and learn from. Ultimately, Where Law Ends is a story about a team of public servants, dedicated to the rule of law, tasked with investigating a president who did everything he could to stand in their way.
About the Author
Andrew Weissmann teaches criminal and national security law at New York University School of Law and is a partner at the law firm of Jenner & Block. Previously, he served as a lead prosecutor in Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office and as chief of the Fraud Section in the Department of Justice. Weissmann served as the general counsel for the FBI under Director Mueller. He also directed the Enron Task Force, where he supervised prosecutions in connection with the company’s collapse. As a federal prosecutor for fifteen years in the Eastern District of New York, Weissmann prosecuted members of the Colombo, Gambino, and Genovese crime families, and police officers for misconduct arising from the Abner Louima attack. He holds degrees from Columbia Law School and Princeton University.
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>https://www.techinasia.com/tributes-pour-skype-founder-toivo-annus
Tributes pour in for Skype founder Toivo Annus who passed away at 48
Skype co-founder Toivo Annus has passed away on Sunday at the age of 48 due to an “unexpected illness.”
“I inform you with the utmost sadness that last weekend, on 12 July, our beloved husband, dad, entrepreneur, and investor Toivo Annus succumbed to an unexpected illness,” his wife was quoted as saying by local media reports. An intimate funeral service with family and close friends will be held.
Annus was known for his work at Skype, where he had led the engineering team until ecommerce major eBay acquired the company in late 2005.
He then moved on to focus on his investment firm Ambient Sound Investments, which he established together with three other colleagues at Skype.
The Estonian entrepreneur was also an active investor in various tech projects. He’s one of the early backers and advisors of Southeast Asia’s tech scene, pouring in funding to Sea Group’s gaming business Garena in 2008. That was before funding had taken off in the region.
Other investments in his portfolio include RedMart, Red Dot Payment, Pomelo Fashion, Coda Payments, and VC fund Jungle Ventures, among others.
The tech community in the region remembers him as a “fearless investor” and a “brother.”
“Toivo was a fearless investor who was led by the courage of his convictions. He participated in every round we ever raised, making his mark by doing so even in 2015 when we were in the wilderness, and his support made the difference between Coda’s survival and failure,” Neil Davidson, executive chairman at Coda Payments, told Tech in Asia.
“We will remember him for his unwavering support of our dream, for everything that he taught us along the way, and for the example that he set, always conducting himself with humility and backing it with immense substance. We will miss him,” Paul Leishman, president at Coda Payments, added.
Bernard Leong, who is now head of machine learning and AI at Amazon Web Services ASEAN, tweeted: “I am saddened by this as he was an investor to my former startup and we corresponded on and off on perspectives on new companies even [as] I moved on from my startup.”
Eric Su, CEO of Philippine-based Exnetwork, recalled: “As one of the co-founders of Skype, he would tell me stories of how they did things roughly or messily in the early days. This would comfort me as there was a lot of mess made at the early days of Lifebit […] He would give me valuable advice like the time when I was confused where to take the company […] He said, ‘Do not fight the jungle, the jungle always wins.’ Well, today the jungle has won and taken away a wise lion.”
James Chan, CEO and co-founder of Ion Mobility, shared that his business relationship with Annus extended into a friendship between their families.
“His quiet demeanor underscored his work ethics and no-bullshit stance, regardless of whether it was in engaging with an entrepreneur or a fellow investor. Despite [our] being almost a generation apart (nine-year gap), I’ve always looked up to Toivo as the business-investor brother I never had,” Chan told Tech in Asia. “It took years for us to get close, and just like that, he’s no longer with us. Southeast Asia will mourn the loss of one of our own, one taken too soon from us.”
Vinnie Lauria, managing partner at Golden Gate Ventures, described him as a “personal friend.”
“While many people knew him as a founding team member of Skype, I don’t think many folks realized the impact of his investments to corners of the world like SEA and Africa. He invested in everything, from old-school ecommerce to the latest in drone technology. He was incredibly smart, and a sharp entrepreneur that felt comfortable asking the really hard questions, and founders respected him for it. He was very analytical and put a lot of thought into his words. Most founders would have referred to him as their favorite investor/advisor,” he told Tech in Asia.
He added, “He was an inspiration to me, especially as we were getting the firm off the ground back in 2012. The impact he created in the early SEA ecosystem cannot be measured and his loss weighs heavy on the founders he backed out here. He took huge risks backing Southeast Asia founders before most of the current VCs even existed.”
“Toivo was one of the earliest backers of Jungle Ventures and also for many of the first-generation entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia,” Amit Anand of Jungle Ventures said. “He was always supportive of the entrepreneur no matter the situation and always tried to be helpful to anyone who came across him. No wonder there are so many people in Southeast Asia sharing this loss.”
Meanwhile, Silver Lake Partners’ Mark Gillett, who previously served as chief operating officer at Skype, remembered Annus’ legacy at the tech giant.
“Toivo was generous with his time, and I will always be grateful for the time he shared helping me understand ‘Skypers.’ I expect that the over 50 other companies and founders he supported will have experienced that same Toivo since he moved on from Skype in 2005,” he wrote on LinkedIn.
like clockwork
hurr durr
ETA 3 minutes
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>Operators never divulge.