Anonymous ID: 2d26e5 Jan. 1, 2019, 5:03 p.m. No.4557619   🗄️.is đź”—kun

'Real Justice Department' veteran emerges as Mueller's top courtroom adversary

 

A former federal prosecutor has emerged as special counsel Robert Mueller’s most persistent courtroom critic.

 

It’s not Rudy Giuliani, a former U.S. attorney and now President Trump’s ubiquitous defender, or any of cable TV’s prosecutors-turned-pundits.

 

He is Eric A. Dubelier, a litigator for the Reed Smith law firm who knows international law and the D.C. playing field. He served eight years prosecuting cases as a Justice Department assistant U.S. attorney in Washington. He refers to his former employer as “the real Justice Department,” implying that Mr. Mueller’s team is something less.

 

His biting remarks have come in months of court filings and oral arguments. Mr. Dubelier has depicted Mr. Mueller as a rogue prosecutor willfully ignoring Justice Department guidelines.

 

He has accused Mr. Mueller of creating a “make-believe crime” against his Russian client, Concord Management and Consulting, which is accused of funding a troll farm that interfered in the 2016 election.

 

So far, the federal judge presiding over the case has sided with Mr. Mueller.

 

https ://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/1/eric-dubelier-emerges-robert-muellers-top-courtroo/

Anonymous ID: 2d26e5 Jan. 1, 2019, 5:39 p.m. No.4558083   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8115

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Andy Cohen (left) and Anderson Cooper (right), hosts of tonight's New Year's Eve coverage on CNN, appeared to be butting heads with Times Square security after event organizers allegedly told them that the network would not be invited back next year if they didn't relinquish their umbrellas despite the wet conditions in midtown Manhattan

 

https: //www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6543057/New-Yorks-Times-Square-bundles-soggy-New-Years-Eve.html

Anonymous ID: 2d26e5 Jan. 1, 2019, 5:54 p.m. No.4558218   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Trump Proclaims January as Month Committed to Abolition of Human Trafficking

 

In one of President Donald Trump’s final actions of 2018, he proclaimed January as “National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.”

 

In a lengthy proclamation issued on Dec. 31, Trump said that it’s not enough to merely denounce such horrific assaults, instead, we must “actively work to prevent and end this barbaric exploitation of innocent victims.”

 

“Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery,” the proclamation stated. “We are morally obligated to confront and defeat the abhorrent practice of human trafficking, and I am keeping my pledge to take aggressive action.”

 

Such crimes are often described as an everyday problem hidden in plain sight. Data from a landmark Global Slavery Index report in July last year found that 1 in 800 people in the United States lives in modern slavery. The phrase is a broad term used to describe victims of forced labor, sexual exploitation or servitude, and forced marriages, among other abuses.

 

https: //www.theepochtimes.com/trump-proclaims-jan-2019-as-month-committed-to-abolish-human-trafficking_2753825.html