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Home Front: Politix
Mueller begs court for delay after Russians call his bluff on evidence
2018-05-06
[BIZPACREVIEW] An attempt by special counselor Robert Mueller to harangue a number of Russian companies and individuals for allegedly interfering in the 2016 presidential election appears to be backfiring "bigly."

On Friday the special counselor’s office sought to delay its first court hearing on the matter out of what appeared to be anxiety.

When Mueller indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities in February, he assumed his foreign-based targets would simply ignore any future court proceedings since they clearly live outside his jurisdiction, according to Politico. He assumed wrong.

Last month a team of Washington lawyers reportedly appeared out of nowhere and notified the court that they represent Concord Management and Consulting, one of the companies targeted by Mueller.

The move was reportedly designed "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."

And apparently the move seems to be working, judging by the special counsel’s desperate bid Friday to force a delay in the case.

Mueller’s team claimed otherwise, arguing in court Friday that the Russian entities affected by his "witch hunt" had not yet received their summons because of, ironically enough, stonewalling by the Russian government.

"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," Mueller’s team reportedly said.

"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."

Uh huh ...

What’s telling is that in their request for a delay, Mueller’s team included Concord Management’s requests for relevant evidence.

"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," his team whined.

"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."
Posted by:Fred

#14  Mueller does seem to have a Napoleon Complex

And we all remember what happened when Napoleon invaded Russia
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-05-06 18:41  

#13   So why have the judges let this go on for so long?

Ellis appears to be a serious, conservative fellow. Ginsburg on the other hand.......


Posted by: Besoeker   2018-05-06 15:29  

#12  Mueller does seem to have a Napoleon Complex, like a legal beagle version of Douglas MacArthur, doesn't he?

MacArthur was a legit war hero maligned by Truman-loving leftist critics who covered for Truman's disastrous micro-management of the Korean War (followed later on by LBJ's, Clinton's, Hillary's and Obama's similar conduct). Mueller's just a Benedict Arnold.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2018-05-06 14:00  

#11  So why have the judges let this go on for so long? I will tell you how this will go. It will all fall apart, congress will enact laws that will limit FBI powers, and it will all go away, right about the time Trump leaves office. Thus making the whole charade a raging success it stopping Trump from performing his elected duties and protecting the next establishment type president.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2018-05-06 12:45  

#10  Aren't there two different things going on here...? The Russians can (A) Say that Mueller is a lying putz that is libeling them while at the very same time (B) contending that he has no jurisdiction over them so 'he can go pound sand'.
Posted by: magpie   2018-05-06 10:37  

#9  Weird. Based on other cases I've followed, appearance of your lawyers means you are aware of the case. Perhaps not properly served -- the service could be deficient in many grounds -- but certainly aware of it enough to argue about the service.

For the plaintiff to argue a defendant appearing court wasn't served yet should leave the plaintiff open to dismissal for failing to press their case.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2018-05-06 09:50  

#8  The defendents filed a response accusing the Mueller team of pettifoggery (being shysters).

They also made a less likely accusation that water is wet.
Posted by: AlanC   2018-05-06 09:01  

#7  Some judicious (not judicial) changes to 10 U.S. Code § 914 - Art. 114. should take care of this and related problems.
Posted by: Choting Elmusomble6855   2018-05-06 08:23  

#6  Mueller is little more than a Deep State scalp hunter hired by the Shadow Government oligarchy to discredit and destroy the Donald Trump presidential anomaly.

The Deep State is becoming quite nervous. Former CIA Director Mike Hayden now uses the term "lacks Objective Reality" (truth) in reference to Donald Trump. In his new book The Assault on Intelligence, Hayden now makes the case that the Intelligence Community is under attack and actually the victim of a deranged, 'objective reality' starved and probably insane POTUS.

The wealthy entrepreneur 'never to be King' fellow, is now King! The puppet masters, people like Hayden, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, and others are scrambling to regain control, a control they should have never exercised in the first place.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-05-06 05:34  

#5  The judge ruled against MueÅ‚ler on thier motion late Saturday.

The defendents filed a response accusing the Mueller team of pettifoggery (being shysters).

Again. Storm trooping a lawyers office (Cohen) was the worst thïng Mueller could have done.

I suspect a judge will jail a Mueller team member during a Cohen hearing.
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606   2018-05-06 04:34  

#4  Not a good couple weeks for Mueller. Expect an anonymously-sourced bombshell allegation that won't pan out to buy time
Posted by: Frank G   2018-05-06 01:11  

#3  Mueller does seem to have a Napoleon Complex, like a legal beagle version of Douglas MacArthur, doesn't he?
Posted by: magpie   2018-05-06 01:10  

#2  GFY Mueller. You are done next week.
and FU you democrat piece of shit from hell.
Posted by: newc   2018-05-06 00:59  

#1  What is Russian courts indicts Mueller and swears out an Interpol warrant? Popcorn, popcorn with lots of garlic butter...
Posted by: magpie   2018-05-06 00:53  

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