Anonymous ID: f891ef Jan. 20, 2020, 2:34 p.m. No.7862570   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2789 >>2971 >>3096 >>3175

Rudy Giuliani

@RudyGiuliani

 

You should never have a trial if no crime was committed. It is a desecration of justice. This should be thrown out to prevent a precedent from forming which would allow future Congresses to overstep their constitutional boundaries.

1:10 PM - 20 Jan 2020

 

https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1219366515801235456

Anonymous ID: f891ef Jan. 20, 2020, 2:51 p.m. No.7862651   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2789 >>2971 >>3096 >>3175

Political pawn or guilty as charged? Extradition trial of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou gets underway in Vancouver

 

A Canadian court is set to hear a much-anticipated case at the centre of the tech and trade war between the US and China, as Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou will fight a US extradition request based on charges her team say have no merit.

Meng was arrested at Vancouver International Airport in December 2018 at the bidding of the United States, just as tensions were mounting between Washington and Beijing over trade tariffs imposed by the Trump administration. US authorities accused her of defrauding financial institutions and lying in an attempt to circumvent US sanctions impeding other countries’ abilities to do business with Iran.

 

The Huawei executive — who was forced to surrender her passports, abide by a curfew and wear a GPS tracker — has been living under house arrest in Vancouver since she was released on a $10-million bail. Formal hearings begin on Monday and are expected to continue until Thursday, though this is only phase one in what is expected to be a long and drawn out extradition trial. With so many moving parts to the case and potential for multiple appeals, it could still take months or even years for it to really come to an end.

 

Decisions this week will hang on the Canadian law principle, necessary for extradition, of ‘double criminality’. That essentially means the crime the person is accused of by the country requesting extradition must also be a crime in Canada.

Meng's team has argued that, since the sanctions she is accused of violating are not Canadian sanctions, the 'double criminality' standard does not apply. The prosecution insists, however, that the case is primarily about the alleged fraud, not sanctions. Meng has accused US and Canadian authorities of unlawful detainment, searches and interrogations. If her attorneys can convince the court that the standard for 'double criminality' is not met, she could be released from house arrest.

 

Critics of Canada’s handling of the case — including the father of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — have framed it as just another example of the US abusing the legal systems of foreign countries to target their geopolitical enemies.

Indeed, Meng’s case would seem to fit that profile. While US authorities have framed her arrest and charges as being simply about Iran sanctions and fraud, to consider this case as purely about business with Tehran would be to ignore the US government’s massive pressure campaign against Huawei itself, which has been playing out in tandem to the wider US-China tariff and trade war. Washington has urged the rest of the world to shun Huawei and its 5G technology, which it claims is a threat to national security and will be used for spying — accusations China has denied.

 

Meng’s case also places Canada in a tricky position. While it will not want to irk its powerful next-door neighbor, Ottawa will also be concerned for Canadian citizens who were arrested in China on spy charges — seen by many as a tit-for-tat retaliation by Beijing following Meng's detainment.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/478745-meng-wanzhou-canada-trial/

Anonymous ID: f891ef Jan. 20, 2020, 3:03 p.m. No.7862704   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>7862578, >>7862633 Google Whistleblower just issued a warning saying that Google could shift 15 million votes in 2020 election. He's pissed and he's not shutting up.

 

notable

Stay loud and in the light sir

WRWY

Anonymous ID: f891ef Jan. 20, 2020, 3:27 p.m. No.7862822   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>7862809 Joe Biden is trying to get ahead of Peter Schweizer's new book about corruption - A THREE-page memo to MSM

notable

Tomorrow is going to be GLORIOUS!

Anonymous ID: f891ef Jan. 20, 2020, 3:59 p.m. No.7862946   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Funny, didn't hear any of this on MSM today.

You know, the same programs that had him on non-stop, 24/7 not too long ago…yeah.

 

Avenatti allegedly took settlement money from football fans

 

LOS ANGELES – Disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti is accused of stealing money from dozens more clients than previously known, according to newly unsealed documents and recent interviews with Fox News.

It’s alleged that Avenatti, currently behind bars awaiting trial in New York on unrelated charges, directed up to $1.3 million in settlement funds – intended for approximately 170 clients – to cover his own expenses. It’s the latest example of alleged malfeasance by the lawyer who was once a fixture on cable news and flirted with a presidential run.

 

“We didn’t receive any of that,” Donald Albaugh, one of Avenatti’s clients, said by phone Monday. Albaugh said he and his wife, Tracy, went to the 2011 Super Bowl in Dallas but, like hundreds of other ticket holders, had problems with their seats and sued the NFL.

“The whole thing is so ludicrous,” Arianne Dar told Fox News about taking her son to the game as a graduation present. Dar said she made sure to buy tickets that were not “obstructed view” but they ended up behind a metal pole. “I never heard about a settlement."

 

H. Dean Steward, who Avenatti hired to represent him last year, did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/michael-avenatti-nfl-football-fans-settlement-money

Anonymous ID: f891ef Jan. 20, 2020, 4:22 p.m. No.7863042   🗄️.is 🔗kun

The Plundering of Ukraine by Corrupt American Democrats

 

Top Dems are involved in the plundering of the Ukraine: new names, mind-boggling accounts. The mysterious ‘whistleblower’ whose report had unleashed the impeachment is named in the exclusive interview given to the Unz Review by a prominent Ukrainian politician, an ex-Member of Parliament of four terms, a candidate for Ukraine’s presidency, Oleg Tsarev.

 

Mr Tsarev, a tall, agile and graceful man, a good speaker and a prolific writer, had been a leading and popular Ukrainian politician before the 2014 putsch; he stayed in the Ukraine after President Yanukovych’s flight; ran for the Presidency against Mr Poroshenko, and eventually had to go to exile due to multiple threats to his life. During the failed attempt to secede, he was elected the speaker of the Parliament of Novorossia (South-Eastern Ukraine). I spoke to him in Crimea, where he lives in the pleasant seaside town of Yalta. Tsarev still has many supporters in the Ukraine, and is a leader of the opposition to the Kiev regime.

 

Q: Oleg, you followed Biden story from its very inception. Biden is not the only Dem politician involved in the Ukrainian corruption schemes, is he?

 

A: Indeed, John Kerry, the Secretary of State in Obama’s administration, was his partner-in-crime. But Joe Biden was number one. During the Obama presidency, Biden was the US proconsul for Ukraine, and he was involved in many corruption schemes. He authorised transfer of three billion dollars of the US taxpayers’ money to the post-coup government of the Ukraine; the money was stolen, and Biden took a big share of the spoils.

 

https://www.unz.com/ishamir/the-plundering-of-ukraine/

 

From 10/2019 but perhaps timely due to new book coming out tomorrow detailing corruption in Ukraine and elsewhere.