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2019-01-02 -Lurid Crime Tales-
'Real Justice Department' veteran emerges as Mueller's top courtroom adversary
[Wash Times] 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.

Mr. Dubelier charges that the Mueller team violated the confidentially of Concord’s counter evidence while hiding documents Concord needs for its defense. The prosecutor wants to "whisper secrets to the judge," Mr. Dubelier says, as Mr. Mueller is calculating the "short-term political value of a conviction" and not worrying about an appeals court defeat years later.

An example: In a Dec. 20 motion, Mr. Dubelier resurrected a botched case spearheaded by Mr. Mueller’s top prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann.

Mr. Weissmann headed the Justice Department’s Enron task force nearly two decades ago. He won a conviction against the accounting firm Arthur Andersen for shredding the defunct energy firm’s financial documents.

Years later, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the conviction. The 2005 decision effectively said that Andersen, by then out of business and its 28,000 employees gone, hadn’t committed a crime.

"Mr. Dubelier is exactly right on Mr. Mueller’s motives and tactics," said Sidney Powell, whose book "License to Lie" exposes years of Justice Department scandals. "His lieutenant Weissmann is the poster boy for prosecutorial misconduct and has no regard for the facts or the law. He will make up whatever he wants to win, and the entire like-minded team views as an accomplishment everyone whose life they destroy in pursuit of their objective."

’MADE UP A CRIME TO FIT THE FACTS’
Concord Management and Consulting is an unlikely client. Legal observers opined that when Mr. Mueller brought charges against various Russians who hacked computers and trolled the 2016 election, no defendant would travel the nearly 5,000 miles to show up for trial.

No defendant has personally arrived. But Concord did appear quickly after the February indictment. Of 28 Russian individuals and firms charged with election interference by Mr. Mueller, only Concord has appeared in U.S. District Court, in this instance in the person of the aggressive Mr. Dubelier.

The Washington defense attorney seemed to catch the Mueller team off guard by immediately demanding disclosure of evidence. Disclosure, Mr. Dubelier argues, is a sacred legal right in America, even for the oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, Concord’s chief with close ties to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-02 01:24|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 DAMNIT!

Can anyone who writes these things write me the What in the first paragraph without trying to make it a literacy career - and grandma's haus through the woods scenarios?

Tell me in 140 characters or less.
Then, show me your inner Faulkner or Orwell.
Posted by newc 2019-01-02 02:21||   2019-01-02 02:21|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder if this case is the same case as in this: Mystery closing of entire floor of D.C. courthouse reported on 12/14/2018.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-01-02 11:09||   2019-01-02 11:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Can anyone who writes these things write me the What in the first paragraph without trying to make it a literacy career - and grandma's haus through the woods scenarios?

Yes, newc. Real journalism, the kind where they present just the facts in an objective manner, is extinct in this country.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-01-02 12:53||   2019-01-02 12:53|| Front Page Top

#4 FBI members are always portrayed as hero’s in TV and Movies. I think that the failure of the rank and file to report abuses is just one reason to disband the entire organization. The least that should be done is to move the complete management structure to Chicago or Detroit.
Posted by Cromolet Borgia6644  2019-01-02 15:01||   2019-01-02 15:01|| Front Page Top

#5 I think that the failure of the rank and file to report abuses is just one reason to disband the entire organization.

I'm not sure how much more evidence is needed.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-02 15:04||   2019-01-02 15:04|| Front Page Top

#6 I think that the failure of the rank and file to report abuses is just one reason to disband the entire organization.

The perception of the rank and file is that the purpose of the Inspector General is to identify the troublemakers and eliminate them.

Do you want to volunteer for elimination?
Posted by Angaiper Slinerong2336 2019-01-02 16:08||   2019-01-02 16:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Whistle-blowers don't fair too well despite laws to protect them.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-01-02 22:47||   2019-01-02 22:47|| Front Page Top

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