Anonymous ID: 5cdd91 Feb. 14, 2020, 9:45 a.m. No.8135147   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>5164 >>5548

Andrew McCabe denies claim that John Durham offered pre-indictment plea deal

October 30, 2019

 

Andrew McCabe's legal team denied a claim that the former FBI deputy director was offered a pre-indictment plea deal from U.S. Attorney John Durham, who is conducting a criminal inquiry into the origins of the Russia investigation.

 

Conservative commentator Mark Levin said on his radio show a "very good source" told him that McCabe had rejected the offer, after which Durham impaneled a grand jury in Washington, D.C.

 

"This is what I was told by a very, very, good source. No, not the attorney general. No, not the U.S. attorney. Remember, I worked at Justice years ago, so I know a lot of people. Could be wrong, but I'm told it's pretty solid. That is that Durham offered McCabe a pre-indictment plea agreement and McCabe turned it down, so they impaneled a grand jury in Washington, D.C.," Levin said Friday.

 

While acknowledging that he did not have first-hand information, Levin hinted that CNN โ€” where McCabe became a contributor in August โ€” was aware of this, and he challenged the media to "go ahead and check this out."

 

McCabe's legal team denied Durham had made any such offer. โ€œAny assertion that Andrew McCabe was offered a plea deal is 100% false," a representative for McCabe told the Washington Examiner.

 

Durham's office declined a request for comment.

 

Earlier this year, Attorney General William Barr tasked Durham with a review of the early stages of the Russia investigation up through the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller in 2017. Last week, it was revealed that Durham's administrative review had transitioned into a criminal inquiry, giving him the power to impanel grand juries and hand down indictments.

 

Durham's team has interviewed at least two dozen current and former FBI officials. A source close to the matter told the Washington Examiner that McCabe has not been contacted by Durham and would unlikely accept any plea deal in connection to the investigation.

 

McCabe, a 21-year veteran of the FBI, said Friday he is not concerned about whether Durham was "targeting" him and his work at the FBI.

 

"No," McCabe said during an appearance on CNN. "If the investigation is conducted with integrity, with impartiality, if there arenโ€™t preconceived theories or judgments brought into it, then I have no concerns about it whatsoever, whether itโ€™s an internal investigation or conducted as a criminal probe."

 

Because he supervised the Trump-Russia investigation, McCabe said he knows "nothing inappropriate was done."

 

A 2018 report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz found the former FBI official โ€œlacked candorโ€ with former FBI Director James Comey, FBI investigators, and Justice Department watchdog investigators about his authorization to leak to the media the existence of an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation, for which McCabe was fired. McCabe sued the Justice Department and FBI in August for wrongful termination.

 

The U.S. Attorneyโ€™s Office in Washington, D.C., is weighing criminal charges against McCabe stemming from the Horowitz report and his appeal last month to avoid criminal charges was denied by the Justice Department with federal prosecutors recommending charges. It does not appear that a grand jury has delivered any indictment yet.

 

U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton of Washington, D.C., warned the prosecutors they have until Nov. 15 to charge McCabe or drop the case. If they do not make a decision by the deadline, the judge said he would order the Justice Department to release documents related to McCabe's employment and firing.

 

McCabe's lawyers have expressed frustration with the Justice Department's delays, denying McCabe did anything wrong and claiming that "this investigation has been fatally flawed from its inception." McCabe said he would "absolutely not" accept a plea deal in that case.

 

McCabe is separately being looked at by Horowitz in part for his role in helping approve Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications, which made use of British ex-spy Christopher Steeleโ€™s salacious and unverified dossier to target Trump associate Carter Page.

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/andrew-mccabe-denies-claim-that-john-durham-offered-pre-indictment-plea-deal

Anonymous ID: 5cdd91 Feb. 14, 2020, 9:59 a.m. No.8135315   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>5389 >>5390

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Looks like those were the charges:

DOJ's watchdog refers Andrew McCabe to US attorney for criminal investigation (from April 2018)

 

The report also listed at least four instances in which McCabe "lacked candor" when discussing the disclosures while he was under oath.

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-mccabe-criminal-referral-charges-justice-department-report-2018-4