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Today's cabinet meeting discussed how best to protect the interests of the Estonian state in international money laundering investigations. Since it is primarily about investigative procedures and legal aid cooperation, the government decided to give the leadership of the representation of Estonia in these investigations to the Ministry of Justice and the State Prosecutor's Office. The three-million-euro legal advisor contract with Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan LLP will be terminated.

According to Minister of Finance Keit Pentus-Rosimannus, Estonian investigative and supervisory authorities confirmed that they have good and close direct contacts with their US partners and active cooperation in money laundering investigations is going smoothly. The exchange of information regarding money laundering investigations has taken place up to now and will continue to take place in the form of direct communication between the authorities of the two countries. The ability of the Estonian state to represent its interests in the field of justice in the USA is also growing, the Estonian state will send a justice attache to the USA in the coming months. One of his most important tasks is to represent and protect the interests of the Estonian state in large-scale money laundering investigations in order to share in the distribution of fines in the future as well.

The maximum total amount of the legal aid contract concluded and terminated today by the Cabinet's decision was 3 million euros. To date, the state has paid 581.5 thousand euros to the law firm. The funds released upon termination of the contract will be directed to other activities related to the fight against money laundering.

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A notable case Freeh was associated with was the "Pizza Connection" investigation, in which he was lead prosecutor. The case, prosecuted in the mid-1980s, involved a drug trafficking operation in the United States by Sicilian organized crime members who used pizza parlors as fronts. After a 16-month trial, 17 of 19 defendants were convicted, of which 16 were sentenced.[12] The "Pizza Connection" case was, at the time, the most complex criminal investigation ever undertaken by the U.S. government

Pulled from Wiki.

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Romanian tycoon hired Hunter Biden, ex-FBI chief to help him avoid jail: emails

Hunter Biden and his colleagues at a high-powered law firm tried to leverage their government connections in the final months of the Obama administration in a failed bid to help a Romanian real estate tycoon avoid a conviction on bribery charges.

Emails obtained from Hunter’s abandoned laptop show the younger Biden — then working as a counsel at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP — reached out to former FBI Director Louis Freeh in June 2016 about the case of Gabriel Popoviciu, who was accused of acquiring land to build a Bucharest mall at a below-market price, the Daily Mail reported.

In a June 18, 2016, email, Hunter Biden told Freeh — then a partner at the Delaware-based law firm Freeh, Sporkin & Sullivan — that he believed Popoviciu was “a good man that’s being very badly treated by a suspect Romanian justice system … Time is of the essence and my client has never balked at bringing whatever team it takes together at whatever cost to obtain justice.”

While Freeh’s initial response, which began “Thanks for your note and for thinking of me,” was noncommittal, he was soon fully invested in Popoviciu’s case.

“I will see my good friend Ron Noble (former SecGen INTERPOL), in NY on Thursday,” Freeh wrote Hunter three days after the initial email, “and most likely he knows this DNA [Romanian National Anti-Corruption Directorate] prosecutor, Laura Codruta Kobesi, very well. Let me talk to him and see what the possibilities may be to meet with her and to initiate a dialogue which would remediate the situation.”

In a subsequent email, the former FBI head suggested Popoviciu had value to American law enforcement.

“FYI,” Freeh wrote in a July 8 email to Hunter Biden obtained by The Post, “I have had conversations with the head of the FBI’s Criminal Division and there is a sincere Bureau interest in meeting and debriefing Gabriel on other matters he may be willing to discuss.” Freeh did not elaborate on what those “other matters” were.

Later in the email, Freeh told Hunter Biden he would “like to make a small payment to you for this referral-and for your continuing work on this matter. This is a standard practice … We would just need your bank information in order to make a

remittance.”

“Thank you Judge Freeh … So honored that you agreed to take this on,” Hunter answered.

“Thank you Hunter and I would be delighted to do future work with you,” Freeh responded. “I also spoke to Dad [Joe Biden] a few weeks ago and would like to explore with him some future work options. I believe that working together on these (and other legal) matters would be of value, fun and rewarding.”

On May 17, 2016, one month before Hunter Biden contacted Freeh, Boies Schiller colleague Michael Gottlieb revealed in an email that he had reached out to then-US envoy to Romania Hans Klemm in an effort to help broker a meeting with Romanian prosecutors.

“I have reached out to Klemm and asked him to help us broker the meeting,” Gottlieb wrote. At that point, Hunter Biden suggested to Gottlieb it was “time to assemble a more high profile team that can speak to the injustice here … Mike I was going to reach out to Judge Freeh and if you can think of others of that stature I think now is the time to read them into the situation and see if they are willing to help.”

None of this maneuvering paid off. Popoviciu was sentenced by a Romanian court in 2017 to seven years in prison. In a statement at the time, Freeh described how he was retained to conduct an “independent review” of the case “with the assistance of a team of experienced former federal prosecutors and former FBI Special Agents, one of whom speaks Romanian fluently.”

“This sentence and conviction are not supported by either the facts or the law,” said Freeh.

Last month, The Post reported that Freeh gave $100,000 to a trust for two of President Biden’s grandchildren as he was attempting to woo the then-vice president to do work connected with his law firm.

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https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/update-louis-freehs-curious-car-accident/

Louis Freeh’s Curious Car Accident

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/24/officials-ex-fbi-chief-nearly-died-vt-crash/26327231/

Ex-FBI chief Freeh nearly died in Vt. crash

Freeh also is known for authoring a report critical of Penn State University's handling of the sex-abuse case involving football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.

at the end of the story, USA TODAY drops on the Penn State sex abuse scandal