Good day all. Last week was not a good week for the Mueller Inquisition. He has one judge demanding the unredacted documents authorizing Mueller’s witch hunt, and now, a group of Russians that Mueller charged, but never actually expected to show up, did just that.
This all started few months ago when Mueller and his group of Gestapo wannabes charged a number of Russians in regards to “Interfering with the election.” Since the Russians were in Russia, (Gee that was a surprise wasn’t it?), he never expected the case to go to trial. Well, surprise! One of the company’s that was charged showed up and started demanding to see the evidence. Here are the details from Politico:
A federal judge has rejected special counsel Robert Mueller’s request to delay the first court hearing in a criminal case charging three Russian companies and 13 Russian citizens with using social media and other means to foment strife among Americans in advance of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
In a brief order Saturday evening, U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich offered no explanation for her decision to deny a request prosecutors made Friday to put off the scheduled Wednesday arraignment for Concord Management and Consulting, one of the three firms charged in the case.
Well, that is…unexpected, to say the least.
The 13 people charged in the high-profile indictment in February are considered unlikely to ever appear in a U.S. court. The three businesses accused of facilitating the alleged Russian troll farm operation — the Internet Research Agency, Concord Management, and Concord Catering — were also expected to simply ignore the American criminal proceedings.
Only, that isn’t what happened.
Last month, however, a pair of Washington-area lawyers suddenly surfaced in the case, notifying the court that they represent Concord Management. POLITICO reported at the time that the move appeared to be a bid to force Mueller’s team to turn over relevant evidence to the Russian firm and perhaps even to bait prosecutors into an embarrassing dismissal in order to avoid disclosing sensitive information.
As much as I despise what the Russians have been doing, well, let me be more specific. As much as I despise Vladimir Putin for what he’s been doing, I’ve reached the point that anything that screws over Mueller is a good thing.
On Friday, Mueller’s prosecutors disclosed that Concord’s attorneys, Eric Dubelier and Kate Seikaly, had made a slew of discovery requests demanding nonpublic details about the case and the investigation. Prosecutors also asked a judge to postpone the formal arraignment of Concord Management set for next week.
What this basically means, in my extremely unschooled opinion, is that Mueller and his thugs never expected to have to actually put on a case. Now they have been put on notice that it’s time to “Put up or shut up.”
The prosecution team sought the delay on the grounds that it’s unclear whether Concord Management formally accepted the court summons related to the case. Mueller’s prosecutors also revealed that they tried to deliver the summonses for Concord and IRA through the Russian government, without success.
“The [U.S.] government has attempted service of the summonses by delivering copies of them to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Russia, to be delivered to the defendants,” prosecutors wrote. “That office, however, declined to accept the summonses. The government has submitted service requests to the Russian government pursuant to a mutual legal assistance treaty. To the government’s knowledge, no further steps have been taken within Russia to effectuate service.”
Well now, since the defendants attorney’s showed up in court, I think it’s safe to say that the summons was received and accepted.
In their request on Friday to put off the arraignment, prosecutors included the extensive demands for information that the lawyers for Concord Management have set forth since they stepped forward last month.
“Until the Court has an opportunity to determine if Concord was properly served, it would be inadvisable to conduct an initial appearance and arraignment at which important rights will be communicated and a plea entertained,” attorneys Jeannie Rhee, Rush Atkinson and Ryan Dickey wrote. “That is especially true in the context of this case, which involves a foreign corporate defendant, controlled by another, individual foreign defendant, that has already demanded production of sensitive intelligence gathering, national security, and foreign affairs information.”
This is Mueller’s way of saying, “Wait, what? They’re actually showing up? But, but, but we’re not actually ready to go forward with a criminal trial. Can we have a do over judge?”
The Mueller team proposed that both sides file briefs in the coming weeks on the issues of whether Concord has been properly served.
In other words, Mueller wanted to buy time to actually put a case together. The opposing lawyers were not subtle in their reply.
In a blunt response Saturday morning, Concord’s attorneys accused Mueller’s team of ignoring the court’s rules and suggesting a special procedure for the Russian firm without any supporting legal authority.
“Defendant voluntarily appeared through counsel as provided for in [federal rules], and further intends to enter a plea of not guilty. Defendant has not sought a limited appearance nor has it moved to quash the summons. As such, the briefing sought by the Special Counsel’s motion is pettifoggery,” Dubelier and Seikaly wrote.
The Concord lawyers said Mueller’s attorneys were seeking “to usurp the scheduling authority of the Court” by waiting until Friday afternoon to try to delay a proceeding scheduled for next Wednesday. Dubelier and Seikaly complained that the special counsel’s office has not replied at all to Concord’s discovery requests. The lawyers, who work for Pittsburgh-based law firm Reed Smith, also signaled Concord intends to assert its speedy trial rights, putting more pressure on the special counsel’s office to turn over records related to the case.
They not only stuck the knife in, they gave it a sharp twist then sawed back and forth. Mueller’s Morons have gotten caught out again playing games, and this time, they don’t have a friendly judge to protect them from their abuse of process.
Friedrich, a Trump appointee based in Washington, sided with Concord and said the arraignment will proceed as scheduled Wednesday afternoon.
You will no doubt see the usual suspects in the CommuNazi party screeching about how this is a Trump judge and he is doing his job by protecting President Trump. Two things about that. First. The judges President Trump has been nominating are generally considered to be constructionists when it comes to the Constitution. Basically, it says what it means and it means what it says. None of that “Living document” crap. Second, well it sucks to be you!
The indictment, obtained by Mueller but announced by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, accused the defendants of mounting an “information warfare” operation in connection with the 2016 election.
The IRA, long suspected of ties to the Kremlin, allegedly used social media, email and other means to manipulate “unwitting” American citizens and Trump campaign officials into protests, demonstrations and the recirculation of media messages. Most of the interventions were intended to benefit Trump or demean his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, the indictment alleged.
As much as I hate what the Russians may have done, how about Barack Obama’s overt attempt to manipulate the vote in the last Israeli election? Obama and his minions actively worked to aid Netenyahu’s opponents in the election over there. Where are the criminal charges against Obama? Why aren’t the Israelis looking to prosecute Valerie Jarrett? The answer is simple. This garbage happens all the time. If this goes forward, I suspect it will either be laughed out of court, Mueller will rescind the indictments or there will be no convictions.
What it will prove is that the entire Mueller “Investigation” is fraudulent and was initiated for the sole purpose of reversing the last election by forcing President Trump out of office. History will not judge Robert Mueller or any of his band of merry thugs kindly.
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