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Mueller mystery: What are the other 12 criminal referrals?
The Mueller report mentions that he's made criminal referrals in 14 cases. Only two are publicly known.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/mueller-mystery-what-are-12-criminal-referrals-n996166
Durham is said to be seeking indictment of lawyer whose firm represented Hillary Clinton’s campaign
Devlin Barrett 1 hr ago
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/durham-is-said-to-be-seeking-indictment-of-lawyer-whose-firm-represented-hillary-clinton-e2-80-99s-campaign/ar-AAOuPA6?ocid=uxbndlbing
Special counsel John Durham, appointed during the Trump administration to investigate possible wrongdoing at the FBI and other agencies dating to the 2016 election, is preparing to seek the indictment of an attorney whose firm has close ties to Democrats, according to two people familiar with the matter.
These two people, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the sensitive political investigation, said Wednesday that the lawyer, Michael Sussmann, is bracing for the possibility he will be charged with lying to the FBI in September 2016, when he raised concerns about possible ties between a Russia-based bank and a computer server at one of former president Donald Trump’s companies.
A charging decision could come within days, as the statute of limitations is due to expire on the fifth anniversary of Sussmann’s meeting with the FBI’s general counsel at the time, James Baker. That meeting took place Sept. 19, 2016. The prospect that Durham could bring charges against Sussmann was first reported by the New York Times.
Sussmann is a former federal prosecutor and now a partner at Perkins Coie, a law firm that has long represented the Democratic National Committee. Charging him would mark a strange twist in the special counsel’s probe championed by Trump and his Republican allies, and which to date has resulted in a single conviction of a low-level FBI lawyer. Durham was tasked with finding crimes that may have been committed at the FBI and elsewhere in the federal government. But if he brings charges against Sussmann, the special counsel will be arguing in essence that the FBI was the victim of a crime.
In a statement, lawyers for Sussmann said he has committed no crime.
“Michael Sussmann is a highly respected national security and cyber security lawyer, who served the U.S. Department of Justice during Democratic and Republican administrations alike,” his lawyers Sean Berkowitz and Michael Bosworth said in a joint statement. “Any prosecution here would be baseless, unprecedented, and an unwarranted deviation from the apolitical and principled way in which the Department of Justice is supposed to do its work. We are confident that if Mr. Sussmann is charged, he will prevail at trial and vindicate his good name.”
A spokesman for Durham declined to comment, as did a spokesman for Attorney General Merrick Garland.
In recent months, Durham’s team has questioned witnesses about how the allegation of a possible digital tie between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank was presented to the FBI. Durham also has examined the authenticity of data given to the FBI.
The theory of possible cyber links between Trump’s business and the bank was pushed to journalists ahead of the 2016 election by computer scientists purporting to have discovered server connections that, they speculated, could signal a secret communications channel between Trump and Russia.
Durham has focused on whether Sussmann lied during his conversation with Baker. Sussmann told congressional investigators that he was acting on behalf of a respected cybersecurity researcher when he approached the FBI, but Baker told investigators later that he thought Sussmann had said he was not representing any client at the time they spoke in 2016, according to the two people familiar with the matter.
Durham is pursuing a prosecutorial theory that Sussmann was secretly representing Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, which was a client of Sussmann’s firm, these people said.
It was not immediately clear how an individual lying to the FBI’s top lawyer would square with the Justice Department’s historical practice of charging false-statements cases. Typically, such cases are charged when a witness knowingly lies to a special agent conducting an investigation.
Chauvin to be arraigned for alleged civil rights violation
By AMY FORLITI, Associated Press 1 hr ago
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/chauvin-to-be-arraigned-for-alleged-civil-rights-violation/ar-AAOuPcU?ocid=uxbndlbing
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder in the death of George Floy d is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday for allegedly violating the civil rights of a teenager in a separate case that involved a restraint similar to the one used on Floyd.
Derek Chauvin was convicted earlier this year on state charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd's 2020 death. He was sentenced to 22 1/2 years. He's also charged in federal court with violating Floyd's civil rights when he knelt on the Black man's neck for about 9 1/2 minutes as Floyd was face-down on the pavement, not resisting and pleading for air.
But another indictment against Chauvin alleges he carried out a similar act against a then-14-year-old boy in 2017. This indictment alleges Chauvin deprived the teenager, who is Black, of his right to be free of unreasonable force when he held the teen by the throat, hit him in the head with a flashlight and held his knee on the boy’s neck and upper back while he was prone, handcuffed and not resisting.
According to a police report from that 2017 encounter, Chauvin wrote that the teen resisted arrest and after the teen, whom he described as 6-foot-2 and about 240 pounds, was handcuffed, Chauvin “used body weight to pin” him to the floor. The boy was bleeding from the ear and needed two stitches.
That encounter was one of several mentioned in state court filings that prosecutors said showed Chauvin had used neck or head and upper body restraints seven times prior to Floyd's death dating back to 2014, including four times state prosecutors said he went too far and held the restraints “beyond the point when such force was needed under the circumstances.”
At federal arraignment hearings, defendants can have the charges read to them, and not guilty pleas are typically entered. Thursday’s hearing will be held remotely via videoconference.
Chauvin and three other former officers — Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao — were arraigned on civil rights violations in Floyd's death on Tuesday. All four pleaded not guilty to those charges. The indictment in the 2017 case was filed the same day as the one for Floyd's death.
According to the indictment in Floyd's death, the officers allegedly deprived Floyd of his rights while acting under government authority. The federal indictment alleges Chauvin violated Floyd’s right to be free from unreasonable seizure and from unreasonable force by a police officer. Thao and Kueng are charged with violating Floyd’s right to be free from unreasonable seizure by not intervening to stop Chauvin as he knelt on Floyd’s neck. All four officers are charged with depriving Floyd of his rights when they failed to provide medical care.
Floyd repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe as Chauvin pinned him to the ground. Kueng and Lane helped restrain Floyd; Kueng knelt on Floyd’s back, and Lane held Floyd’s legs, according to evidence in state court. Thao held back bystanders and kept them from intervening.