https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10798303/ANOTHER-Russian-billionaire-dies-mysterious-circumstances.html

Another Russian tycoon has been found dead under mysterious circumstances.

Billionaire Alexander Subbotin, 43, a former top executive with Kremlin-friendly energy giant Lukoil, is the latest in a number of high profile, suspicious deaths since Vladimir Putin ordered his forces to invade Ukraine.

The mogul had sought the advice of shamans to cure a hangover, according to the official version of events, but his death comes as the deaths of other prominent tycoons are under the spotlight which critics of Putin's regime say could be murders.

The oligarch, who owned a lucrative shipping company, was reportedly treated with toad venom - put into an incision that had been made in his skin. Soon afterwards, Subbotin had a heart attack and was given a tranquilliser from the herb valerian.

The next morning he was found dead by male and female shamans Magua Flores (real name Alexey Pindyurin) and Tina Cordoba (Kristina Teikhrib), according to local reports citing the version of events shared by Russian law enforcement.

The Kremlin 'suicides': Four gas chiefs and their suspicious deaths

Vladislav Avayev: The Gazprombank vice-president, 51, was found dead in his penthouse Moscow apartment on April 18 alongside his wife Yelena and daughter Maria.

They were found by Avayev's eldest daughter Anastasia with a gun in the father's hand in the locked apartment.

Initial reports in Russia said Yelena was pregnant by their driver and Vladislav killed her in a fit of rage.

Others have doubted this and questioned why an FSB gun was found inside the flat.

Sergey Protosenya: The oligarch worth £350million was found dead in Spain with his wife Natalia and daughter Maria.

He was found hanged outside their Costa Brava villa while the two others were hacked to death inside.

But investigators found no blood on Sergey, no suicide note and no fingerprints on the weapon.

Sergey's son Fedor said his father would never harm his family.

Alexander Tyulakov: On February 25, the day after the Ukraine war started, the senior Gazprom official's body was discovered by his lover.

His neck was in a noose in his £500,000 home in a luxury Leningrad housing development.

Reports say he had been badly beaten shortly before he 'took his own life'.

Leonid Shulman: In the same gated housing estate three weeks earlier, the head of transport at Gazprom Invest was found dead with multiple stab wounds on his bathroom floor.

Investigators said a note was found but they have not released its contents.

A knife was found on the bathtub, seemingly out of reach.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10798185/Pope-postpones-trip-Lebanon-health-reasons-days-seen-wheelchair.html

Pope Francis has postponed a trip to Lebanon initially planned for June over health concerns, Lebanon's tourism minister Walid Nassar said on Monday.

Nassar did not elaborate on the 'health reasons' behind the postponement but the pope, who has suffered from pain in his knee, was seen using a wheelchair for the first time at a public event on Thursday.

Nassar said: 'Lebanon received a letter from the Vatican officially informing it of the decision to postpone the scheduled visit of the Pope to Lebanon.'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/inconveniencing-brett-kavanaugh-right-now-is-good-actually/ar-AAX4L2s?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b92ec2a703ca4d4e820e5d299cd764f0

On Sunday, news broke that pro-choice protesters were marching to the family homes of Supreme Court justices Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts in Maryland in protest of the recently leaked decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Almost instantly, opprobrium boiled over; not at the conservative justices for their proposal to effectively criminalize abortion in most of the U.S., but at the protesters for daring to show up at said justices’ houses to make their displeasure known.

It’s hard not to see a double standard here. I’m not condoning trespassing or any other illegal activity, but are we really criticizing pro-choice activists for having the audacity to show up at the homes of Supreme Court justices, when those same Supreme Court justices seem to feel perfectly comfortable making their presence known in our bedrooms, our marriages, and our doctor’s offices? What constitutes Kavanaugh’s right to privacy when he has all but deemed my right to a safe, easily accessible, and yes, private medical procedure illegal?

Protesting at a public figure’s family home isn't without its collateral damage, and while I do feel bad for Kavanaugh's children (we don’t choose our parents, after all), I also feel bad for Rosie Jimenez’s daughter, who was left without a mother when Jimenez died from an unsafe abortion in 1977, after the Hyde Amendment cut off Medicaid funding for safe medically-supervised abortions. I feel bad for the children of the woman known only as ‘Manuela’, who have to live with the knowledge that their mother was handcuffed to a hospital bed in El Salvador after a miscarriage. I feel bad for all the people who know and love Lizelle Herrera, arrested just last month in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley for “causing the death of an individual by self-induced abortion.” When you stack a peaceful protest in a Maryland suburb against all that human suffering, the contrast feels stark.

If you’re concerned about the effect that these protests would have on Kavanaugh’s neighbors, allow me to put your mind at ease. They’re the ones who organized the protest, driving home the point that the right to abortion isn’t theoretical or being questioned in some faraway place; abortion rights intimately affect the lives of your neighbors, your friends, your coworkers, and the people you build your life with. To take them away is to tell those very same people that your interpretation of the law matters more than their lived experience.

Of course, some are chiming in with calls for civility. (It’s worth noting that the protests were entirely peaceful, without any trespassing or destruction of property.) But it feels ironic that, to many, maintaining politeness supersedes the freedom of expression of a group of people having their right to autonomy over their own bodies forcibly taken from them. If Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault in 2018, didn’t enjoy the privilege of being unbothered in her home after going public with her story, why should he? For that matter, if people seeking abortions are regularly harassed and threatened on their way into clinics to obtain often lifesaving care, why shouldn’t the Supreme Court justices who choose to make their experiences even more difficult expect some minor level of inconvenience to their day?

Ultimately, the point of political protest isn’t to blend seamlessly into the background, or to take place at a convenient hour. The point is to disrupt the status quo—and that’s exactly what the pro-choice activists outside Kavanaugh’s house are doing. “I was known as the angriest man in the world, mainly because I discovered that anger got you further than being nice,” the late AIDS activist Larry Kramer was once quoted as saying, and he was (as ever) right—if there was ever a time for “nice” expression of dissent, it’s in the rearview mirror now. As the posters at the protests say, respect existence or expect resistance. Just don’t be surprised when that resistance makes your day-to-day life more difficult; that’s what it’s supposed to do, after all.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/new-york-gov-hochul-tests-positive-for-covid-as-two-omicron-subvariants-spread-across-empire-state/ar-AAX4sIv?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b92ec2a703ca4d4e820e5d299cd764f0

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, becoming the latest political leader to succumb to the virus, which is rising across the state driven by two subvariants of omicron.

Hochul, who will isolate and work remotely this week, is at least the 18th U.S. governor to test positive for COVID-19, according to an Associated Press tally. Several U.S. governors have tested positive in recent months, with Connecticut’s Ned Lamont and Maine’s Janet Mills testing positive in April. New York City Mayor Eric Adams tested positive on April 10, his 100th day in office.

For weeks, much of upstate New York has been in the high-alert orange zone, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designation that reflects serious community spread. The surge is being driven by the BA.2 variant of omicron, and two other subvariants that appear to be even more infectious. The two, named BA.2.12 and BA.2.12.1, were highlighted by health officials in New York State recently.

CNN

Jody Lukoki: Former Ajax striker and Congolese international dies aged 29

By Sana Noor Haq and Marty Edelman, CNN - 3h ago

Former Ajax footballer and Congolese international forward Jody Lukoki has died at the age of 29, according to a statement from his club, FC Twente.

"This morning, FC Twente received the terrible news that Jody Lukoki has passed," the Dutch club said on its website on Monday.

"The club is shocked and deeply struck by this tragic event. FC Twente sympathizes with his loved ones and wishes them strength in processing this huge loss."

The cause of his death was not confirmed.

Lukoki first joined Amsterdam side Ajax at the youth level in 2008 and eventually graduated to the first team in January 2011.

He won three Dutch league titles with the club over three successive seasons, before signing with PEC Zwolle in 2014.

A year later, he transferred to Ludogorets, where he spent five seasons and won three Bulgarian league titles.

After playing for Turkish side Yeni Malatyaspor for one season, Lukoki returned to the Eredivisie with FC Twente.

He also played for the Netherlands national squad during his youth career, before making his debut for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in March 2015.

Ajax commemorated Lukoki on social media: "Our former player Jody Lukoki has passed away at the age of 29. Rest in Peace, Jody."

Fans also paid tribute to the striker on social media. "Wouldn't wish this on anyone. Sending lots of strength to his family. Rest in peace," one user posted on Twitter.

"29 years too young, strength to his relatives and everyone who knew him," another user tweeted.

droppin like flies

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mystery-hepatitis-disease-killing-children-might-be-linked-to-dogs-cdc/ar-AAX4Ty9?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b92ec2a703ca4d4e820e5d299cd764f0

The Centres for Disease Control (CDC) is investigating whether an acute hepatitis virus that has killed five children in the U.S. and sickened dozens of others could be linked to pet dogs.

Health officials in the U.S. have identified 109 cases of the mysterious hepatitis virus, which affects the liver. The cases, which are concentrated in pre-school children, occurred over the past seven months in 24 states and Puerto Rico.

Around 90 percent of the children were hospitalized and 14 percent needed liver transplants, CDC Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases Jay Butler, told a press conference Friday. All were previously healthy.

Similar cases have been reported outside the U.S. The World Health Organization (WHO) said that as of May 1 it had recorded 228 probable cases in 20 countries, the majority of which are in Europe and the U.S.

A possible link between the unusual number of acute pediatric hepatitis cases and dogs originated with a report Friday from the U.K. Health Security Agency.

The U.K. has reported 163 cases of acute hepatitis in children as of May 3. The agency report said that its leading hypothesis is that the outbreak is linked with adenovirus, a common virus that usually causes mild cold or flu symptoms.

But the report also said it was looking at exposure to other environmental factors, and noted that review of its questionnaires found that it found relatively high numbers of dog-owning families among cases, totalling around 70 percent of cases where data was available. It acknowledged, however, that pet dog ownership is common in the U.K.

More than half of the U.S. cases also tested positive for adenovirus, Butler said, adding that the CDC is continuing to investigate all possible contributing factors, including exposure to dogs.

"We really are casting a broad net and keeping an open mind in terms of whether the adenovirus data might reflect an innocent bystander or whether there might be co-factors that are making the adenovirus infections manifest in a way that hasn't been commonly seen before," he said.

The risk of hepatitis in children remains low, health officials say. The main symptoms of illness are vomiting, dark urine, light stools and jaundice, in which the skin or the whites of the eyes turn yellow.

There is no indication that the virus is connected to COVID-19 vaccinations, Butler said, adding that as the median age of the children affected is two years, most would not have been eligible for vaccinations, which have only been approved so far for children over five years of age.

"Covid-19 vaccination is not the cause of these illnesses, and we hope that this information helps clarify some of the speculation circulating online," he said.

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The Independent

Man charged with attempting to light one-year-old on fire

Gino Spocchia - 1h ago

Aman has been arrested and charged with attempted murder following the discovery of a one-year-old child who was covered in a flammable liquid.

Jamie Avery Jr, of Florida, faces a charge of attempted aggravated murder and is currently being held in jail in Seneca County, New York, according to ABC7.

Authorities in Seneca County said during a press conference that the 28-year-old allegedly set multiple fires at a truck stop in Tyre, in the northeastern part of New York state.

Police arrived at the Love truck stop and found a one-year-old dosed in a flammable liquid and another child, aged four, with a head injury, reported WPBF.

“It is alleged that the two suspects had poured a flammable liquid on the one-year-old child and attempted to light the child on fire inside the building,” said Lt Timothy Thompson.

“Luckily the two were unsuccessful,” the police spokesperson said, while adding that a “suspicious device” was located in the men’s bathroom, which turned out to be a “makeshift replica” of an explosive device.

According to WPBF, authorities believe the one-year-old and four-year-old are related to Mr Avery Jr, who remains in custody. He is also face charges of arson, reports say.

In an earlier statement, the Seneca County Sheriff’s Office said it was investigating “an incident that occurred” at the Love’s truck stop in Tyre, but did not give further details.

“This morning charges were filed against one suspect with another suspect pending,” the police said in that statement of Mr Avery Jr and another individual, who has not been named. “Charges include Attempted Aggravated Murder”.

Both children are expected to make a recovery and Mr Thompson was quoted as saying that the “Circumstances surrounding the four-year-old are still under investigation”. That child was found in a tractor trailer.

Reports say charges are expected against the second person.

It was not clear if Mr Avery Jr had a lawyer.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maria-bartiromo-thinks-democrats-are-inventing-a-new-covid-variant-to-help-their-midterm-elections/ar-AAX4GkP?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b92ec2a703ca4d4e820e5d299cd764f0

There’s a persistent trope among the more conspiracy-minded members of right-wing media that new variants of Covid are inventions timed to help Democrats and harm Republicans.

The theory is so obviously silly that it hurts my head to even think about properly fact-checking it. It should not have to be explained why it’s implausible that scientists across the globe are working in tandem with the Democratic Party and the American media to invent new variants of a virus out of whole cloth with the specific aim of winning midterm elections for Democrats.

Covid variants are real, and not an invention of an American political party. The omicron variant, for example, was first discovered in South Africa. What’s more, it’s unclear how a new Covid variant that brings more death and dysfunction to the United States helps Democrats — the party currently in power.

That said, the conspiracy theory has persisted, and on Monday was endorsed by a top anchor at a cable news network.

“What a surprise.. right on schedule … here comes the ‘midterms variant,'” Fox anchor Maria Bartiromo tweeted on Monday.

What a surprise.. right on schedule … here comes the “midterms variant” https://t.co/NgHkNZdtsz @MorningsMaria

— Maria Bartiromo (@MariaBartiromo) May 9, 2022

Bartiromo made a similar comment to a guest on her Fox Business show Monday morning: “You said, ‘when the Republicans take over’, how about ‘if the Republicans take over,’ because the Washington Post is reporting more Covid on the horizon in fall, as I have been predicting, the midterms variant is on the way.”

Bartiromo based her claim on a Washington Post report that the Biden administration is preparing for a new wave of Covid in the fall and winter:

The Biden administration is warning the United States could see 100 million coronavirus infections and a potentially significant wave of deaths this fall and winter, driven by new omicron subvariants that have shown a remarkable ability to escape immunity.

The projection, made Friday by a senior administration official during a background briefing as the nation approaches a covid death toll of 1 million, is part of a broader push to boost the nation’s readiness and persuade lawmakers to appropriate billions of dollars to purchase a new tranche of vaccines, tests and therapeutics.

The Post did not report on the existence of a new variant. It noted that officials are anticipating a wave of 100 million infections, and that “projections assume that omicron and its subvariants will continue to dominate community spread.”

This is not the first time Bartiromo has suggested variants are liberal.

When fears of the delta variant began spreading in August 2021, Bartiromo said, “It’s all quite convenient with a year to go before the midterm elections.”

“It doesn’t appear the Democrats can win on policy so what are we going to do? Have a lockdown in the summer of 2022 so that we ensure mail-in ballots are flowing from empty parking lots and dead people?” she added.

Between that comment and today, roughly 400,000 more Americans are reported to have died from Covid.

The idea that new variants are introduced to help Democrats is not new to Fox News either.

In November, Fox & Friends Weekend host Rachel Campos-Duffy suggested Democrats are inventing new variants to distract from Pete Buttigieg’s performance as Transportation Secretary.

“And now we see these new variants. So that’s the answer, is more lockdowns, more lockdowns, more fear and therefore doesn’t have to do his job of fixing the supply chain because we’ll just keep this whole thing going,” she said.

“Always a new variant,” co-host Will Cain said, while Pete Hegseth added “you can count on a variant about every October, every two years.”

The post Maria Bartiromo Thinks Democrats Are Inventing a New Covid Variant to Help Their Midterm Elections first appeared on Mediaite.

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seen in fl

early mornings

old church buses

blacked out windows

for months

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BOOB

bans off our bodies

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/stacey-abrams-lands-1m-donation-from-george-soros/ar-AAX4Xo7?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b92ec2a703ca4d4e820e5d299cd764f0

Stacey Abrams’s campaign for Georgia governor is in line for a seven-figure fundraising boost, but it has to wait a bit for the check to clear.

George Soros, the billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist, is donating $1 million to Abrams’ campaign, but she won’t be able to spend any of the money until she’s officially crowned as the Democratic nominee for the seat, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The hold-up is because of a new law that Georgia’s GOP-controlled General Assembly passed last year that was designed to put current Governor Brian Kemp at an early fundraising advantage, but because of lawsuits from Abrams and Kemp’s Republican primary challengers, hasn’t quite worked out that way.

The new law allows candidates for certain offices in Georgia to set up so-called leadership committees, which are a special kind of political organization allowed to skirt the usual campaign fundraising limits and collect unlimited amounts from donors. As originally written, Kemp could immediately begin using his leadership because he’s the gubernatorial incumbent. Abrams and others, including Kemp’s top GOP challenger, David Perdue, would have to wait until they officially won their party’s primaries. The primary contests are scheduled for May 24.

Abrams, sued, arguing that she’s already the de facto Democratic nominee because she’s running unopposed in the primary. She lost that lawsuit but a federal judge also ruled that Kemp would have to wait to access his leadership committee funds, too.

From the AJC

David Emadi, executive secretary of the state ethics commission, said the Abrams camp can keep the Soros contribution but not spend it until after the primary.

The leadership committees are important tools for funding campaigns because there are limits on how much a candidate can raise from an individual or business interest that don’t apply to leadership committees, so they can collect huge checks from donors.

Statewide candidates, such as those running for governor, are currently allowed to raise $7,600 from individual donors for the primary and again for the general election, plus $4,500 per runoff.

In contrast, Kemp’s leadership committee had taken checks up to $250,000 from individual donors in its first few months of operation.

Abrams, as we’ve pointed out before, is already a fundraising juggernaut. Last week her campaign briefly suspended taking donations and encouraged supporters to instead give money to pro-choice organizations as the result of the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that shows the Roe v. Wade decision is at peril of being reversed soon.

The voting rights organization she founded in 2018, Fair Fight Action, has since raised more than $100 million. Abrams’ gubernatorial campaign raised $11.7 million in the quarter ended April 30.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hillary-clinton-when-she-was-young-photos-of-the-politician-from-her-early-days-on/ss-AAX4yhG?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b92ec2a703ca4d4e820e5d299cd764f0

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The Washington Post

Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prize for public service for Jan. 6 coverage

Elahe Izadi - 1h ago

The Washington Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service on Monday for its coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and its aftermath.

The prize, considered American journalism’s highest honor, recognizes the work of more than 100 journalists across the Post’s newsroom, many of whom contributed reporting from the Capitol grounds that day as well as others who investigated the security failures that contributed to the crisis, the human costs of the attack and the larger ramifications for the nation.

“This was a seminal event in American history and democracy,” Washington Post executive editor Sally Buzbee said. She called it the Post’s “mission and our absolute sacred trust” to not just cover the crisis thoroughly but to find ways to get its reporting and analysis out “to as broad an audience as possible.”

“I’m enormously pleased and very honored that the whole breadth and sweep of the Post coverage is what was recognized,” she added, including the visual presentation that helped make the news especially vivid and comprehensible to consumers.

The Pulitzers also honored Post journalists as finalists in three other categories. Darryl Fears and other Washington Post national staffers are finalists in the national reporting category for a series of stories about environmental justice. Ann Telnaes is a finalist for the illustrated reporting and commentary category, formerly known as editorial cartooning. And Hannah Dreier and Andrew Ban Tran are finalists in investigative reporting for a series of stories about how the Federal Emergency Management Agency failed natural disaster survivors.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/new-omicron-subvariant-b-a-2-12-1-spreading-rapidly-in-the-u-s/ar-AAX4VQt?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b92ec2a703ca4d4e820e5d299cd764f0

Anew subvariant of omicron is now spreading rapidly in the U.S., and health experts say it will likely become the dominant strain of the virus in the country in upcoming weeks.

The subvariant, named B.A.2.12.1, is a new mutation of the highly contagious omicron COVID-19 variant. It was first detected in New York last month and made up 36% of all new cases in the United States in the week ending April 30, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, recently explained that though the subvariant is about 27% more contagious than the original form of omicron and more contagious than the last subvariant, BA.2, it doesn't cause a more severe case of COVID.

"Epidemiologically, it doesn't appear as if we're seeing more severe disease in places that are having more cases," she said. "So we are not anticipating more severe disease from some of these subvariants, but we are actively studying it."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lawyer-charged-with-lying-to-fbi-may-call-ex-nyt-reporter-as-witness/ar-AAX52HM?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b92ec2a703ca4d4e820e5d299cd764f0

Lawyers for Michael Sussmann, an attorney with ties to the Democratic Party who is about to go on trial for allegedly lying to the FBI in the heated final days of the 2016 presidential campaign, say they plan to call a former New York Times reporter as a witness to help show Sussmann is not guilty.

Sussmann allegedly told the top lawyer at the FBI in September 2016 that he had information to share about possible cyber links between Republican nominee Donald Trump’s business and a Russian bank. He faces a single count of lying to the FBI because he allegedly claimed he was not bringing them the information on behalf of any client, but was doing so at the behest of two of his clients: Hillary Clinton’s campaign team and a technology executive named Rodney Joffe.

The trial is scheduled to begin next week in D.C. federal court. Sean M. Berkowitz, a lawyer for Sussmann, said in court Monday that the defense team plans to call former Times reporter Eric Lichtblau to testify about his communications with Sussmann and Joffe.

Inside Mark Meadows's final push to keep Trump in power

Berkowitz said in court that after speaking with lawyers for the Times, his team does not expect the news organization to object to Lichtblau testifying about those topics. But he said the Times did have concerns about the possibility that Lichtblau would be asked about independent research he did on computer topics related to Sussmann’s efforts. Reached for comment by phone, Lichtblau referred questions to his lawyer, who declined to comment. A spokeswoman for the Times also declined to comment.

In court, Berkowitz said he expected lawyers for the Times to file something with the court about the issue at some point this week.

Berkowitz also said he plans to call Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who examined the FBI’s handling of investigations into Hillary Clinton and a former campaign adviser to Donald Trump, and issued reports sharply critical of the FBI’s work in both those cases.

Berkowitz said he will call Horowitz as a witness to talk about how Sussmann provided “information to the inspector general that also involved Mr. Joffe.”

The Sussmann trial will be a closely-watched legal confrontation pitting John Durham, a holdover special counsel from the Trump administration, against a longtime Democratic lawyer. The former president and his supporters have trumpeted the case against Sussmann as evidence the FBI abused its investigative powers and mistreated the Republican candidate for president, while Democrats have argued that Durham is chasing conspiracy theories about the “Deep State.”

John Durham has a stellar reputation for investigating corruption. Some fear his work for Barr could tarnish it.

Sussmann has pleaded not guilty. In a motion to dismiss the case, he argued that even if he did as Durham alleged, that would not be a federal crime, because the question of who his clients were was irrelevant to the FBI. As part of their evidence, Sussmann’s lawyers said they have reviewed more than 300 FBI emails that show the bureau understood Sussmann worked for Democratic campaign entities.

Durham’s team contends that if the bureau had known Sussmann was working on behalf of two clients with political interests, agents might have asked more questions about the source of his information or taken different investigative steps.

The information Sussmann presented to the FBI was computer data showing possibly nefarious computer connections between the Trump Organization, which is the former president’s business entity, and a Russian financial institution known as Alfa Bank. The FBI investigated the matter but ultimately concluded the computer data did not show anything illegal or problematic.

Durham was tapped by then-Attorney General William P. Barr in 2019 to review the FBI’s 2016 investigation of Trump’s campaign and whether it conspired with Russia. Barr named him a special counsel soon before leaving office.

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dont give a fook