Did Special Counsel Mueller Lie To The Attorney General?

As the left piles the pressure on Speaker Pelosi to launch impeachment proceedings against President Trump following Special Counsel Mueller's apparent 'greenlight' during his brief statement this morning, a rather large question looms over an apparent disagreement between Mueller and his boss, Attorney General William Barr.

During a Wednesday statement, Mueller said that his non-decision decision on whether the president obstructed justice was "informed" by "a long-standing opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the Justice Department that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime…That is unconstitutional. Even if the charge is kept under seal and hidden from public view, that too is prohibited."

However, as Gregg Jarrett of Fox News reports, according to Barr, that’s not what Mueller told multiple people during a meeting on March 5, 2017. Here’s what Barr told Senators during his May 1st testimony:

“We were frankly surprised that they were not going to reach a decision on obstruction and we asked them a lot about the reasoning behind this. Mueller stated three times to us in that meeting, in response to our questioning, that he emphatically was not saying that but for the OLC opinion he would have found obstruction.”

Barr said there were others in the meeting who heard Mueller say the same thing – that the OLC opinion played no role in the special counsel’s decision-making or lack thereof. The attorney general repeated this in his news conference the day Mueller’s report was released to the public:

“We specifically asked him about the OLC opinion and whether or not he was taking a position that he would have found a crime but for the existence of the OLC opinion. And he made it very clear several times that was not his position.”

Yet, today, Mueller was telling a different tale.

So did Mueller lie (to the public today or to the AG in 2017)?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-29/did-special-counsel-mueller-lie-attorney-general

Tesla Sued By Supplier For Not Paying Its $1.77 Million Bill

Just days after Elon Musk postured as if Tesla didn’t really need the cash that it was raising, a new lawsuit has been filed against the company, by a French metal supplier, alleging that Tesla owes them $1.77 million. The suit was filed in California's Northern District.

Lebronze Alloys has provided a metal part for Tesla's electric motor since 2016, but is having difficulty collecting on the $1.77 million (€1.55 million) that it is owed by Tesla.

Their lawsuit against Tesla states:

"LBA made numerous efforts to get Tesla to pay the amounts Tesla owed to LBA. LBA convened meetings, sent e-mails and letters, and initiated numerous telephone calls in an effort to get Tesla to pay what it owed, to answer any questions Tesla may have had, and to resolve any issues. In addition, LBA demanded reasonable assurances of performance by Tesla."

Another interesting aspect of the lawsuit is that it also may have also inadvertently offered a nod to lower guidance from Tesla. The original 2016 agreement had Tesla agreeing to buy parts for up to 1.5 million vehicles. But that agreement was amended in February 2019, with the forecast changed to just 250,000 vehicles. Whether this is a result of new lowered guidance, or Tesla taking receipt of orders between 2016 to 2019, remains to be seen.

The lawsuit continues:

"On April 17, 2019, Tesla, without notice, requested an immediate telephone conference call, during which Tesla purported to give verbal notice of termination of the Agreement and the Amended Agreement, without advance notice and contrary to the terms of the Agreement and the Amended Agreement. This constituted a breach, repudiation and anticipatory breach of the Agreement and the Amended Agreement."

Tesla's relationship with suppliers continues to look volatile. After asking, in July 2018, for concessions by its suppliers, 18 of 22 executives surveyed at automotive supply companies said that Tesla was "a financial risk to their business". More than a third of those surveyed said they were worried about a Tesla bankruptcy.

PlainSite has provided a link to all Tesla vendor non-payment lawsuits outstanding. As of now, there appears to be 22 cases outstanding.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-29/tesla-sued-supplier-not-paying-its-177-million-bill