Rudy Giuliani accuses Trey Gowdy of ‘drinking the Kool-Aid’

Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, accused Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., of “drinking the Kool-Aid” after Gowdy expressed doubt regarding President Trump’s allegations that an FBI “spy” infiltrated his 2016 campaign for political purposes.

“He’s drinking the Kool-Aid,” Giuliani said of Gowdy in an interview with CNN.

Giuliani then condemned Gowdy for how he led the House Select Committee’s investigation on the 2012 Benghazi terror attacks. Democrats have argued that the probe was an effort to thwart Hillary Clinton, who served as secretary of state when the attacks occurred.

“I never understood what he did with Benghazi either. He really screwed that up. I don’t know what he was doing,” Giuliani said.

The comments come after Gowdy claimed the FBI had an “obligation” to look into potential meddling for foreign actors in the 2016 election.

“I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got, and that it has nothing to do with Donald Trump,” Gowdy said Tuesday in an interview with Fox News.

Gowdy did not provide CNN with a comment to Giuliani's statements.

Earlier this month, multiple media outlets identified Stefan Halper, an American who worked at Cambridge University, as an FBI source who met with three Trump campaign staffers, including campaign advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, and campaign co-chair Sam Clovis.

In response, Trump requested that the Justice Department investigate if the “FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes.”

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders revealed afterward the Justice Department “has asked the inspector general to expand its current investigation to include any irregularities with the Federal Bureau of Investigations or the Department of Justice’s tactics concerning the Trump Campaign.”

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Goldman Sachs investment banker arrested on insider trading charges

A 37-year-old investment banker for Goldman Sachs was arrested Thursday on charges he used inside information on mergers for which the company was a financial adviser to garner more than $130,000 on stock trades.

Woojae "Steve" Jung, 37, of San Francisco, was charged with six counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan, where Goldman is headquartered.

Goldman, which is one of the six largest U.S. banks and has policies barring employees from any improper use of confidential information, said it's aware of the charges and is cooperating with federal investigators. Jung has been placed on leave, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Prosecutors said Jung and a co-conspirator in South Korea, who attended university together, used a brokerage account in the second person's name to conceal the trades, which involved securities of at least 10 companies including W.R. Grace and SanDisk, and were based on what the government considers material, nonpublic information.

They occurred from February 2015 through September 2017, authorities said. Jung worked at a Goldman office in the New York area from 2012 through 2015 before moving to the San Francisco office.

"Financial crimes, especially those that involve the exploitation of material nonpublic information of clients who have placed their trust in investment institutions, have a negative impact on the economy and individuals alike," said FBI Assistant Director William Sweeney.

In one of the early transactions, Jung purchased call options, or bets that a stock price will rise, for W.R. Grace after working on its plan to split into two separate companies, the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a separate complaint alleging securities fraud and unjust enrichment.

He garnered profits of about $3,000 by exiting that position after Grace announced the plan in February 2015, a move that pushed its stock price up by 12 percent, the SEC said.

In October of the same year, the brokerage account Jung was using netted profits of about $40,000 from the sale of recently acquired stock and options in SanDisk in the wake of news reports on its pending takeover by Western Digital and the official announcement of the deal, the commission alleged.

The conspiracy charge filed by prosecutors carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison while the six counts of securities fraud each carry a maximum of 20 years.

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What he publically stated when he announced his resignation is he was going back to private practice where he felt he was more effective, I am a great prosecutor but a poor legislator. I do concede that in the Q drops do expose another role for him somewhere