Special Counsel Robert Mueller's heavily redacted report is shown during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, June 10, 2019. © REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Politico: Justice Department drops plans for trial over Russian interference in 2016 U.S. election
A judge dismissed charge against two companies tied to “Putin’s chef.”
The Justice Department is abandoning plans for a looming criminal trial focused on claims of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
With jury selection set to begin in just over two weeks, prosecutors asked a federal judge to permanently dismiss the charges special counsel Robert Mueller brought two years ago against two Russian firms linked to a St. Petersburg businessman known as Putin's chef, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
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WNU Editor: When you have bad news that you want buried, you announce it during a crisis like the current Covid-19 pandemic crisis. These charges were bogus when they were first made, and they are still bogus now that the trial has been dropped. Bottom line. The Justice Department did not want to pursue this case in a courtroom, because they knew too well that they did not have any evidence to convict the companies and individuals that they charged. The Russian firms and individuals whose trials have been dropped are now demanding compensation .... ‘Russian troll firm’ says it has a $50bn grudge to settle with US after indictment dropped by DoJ (RT).
More News On The U.S. Justice Department Dropping Plans For A Trial Against Two Russian Firms Accused Of Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election
Feds dropping case for 2 Russian companies in troll probe -- AP
Judge allows US to drop two of 16 defendants in Russian troll farm case brought by Mueller -- CNN
DOJ drops charges against ‘Russian trolls’ after they dared demand evidence in US court -- RT
DOJ moves to drop charges against Russians accused of funding troll farm -- Axios
Why did the Justice Department drop its prosecution of 2 firms linked to a Putin associate? -- NBC
5 comments:
Wow - I didn't think any more air could fart out of the Russian hoax balloon.
/bet there's more
You could read it this way too. That they didn’t want to bring any more Trump evidence into the light.
Anon
If they had evidence it would have been leaked and on the front page of the New York Times and Washington Post last year.
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If the Deep State mothers lost the files against Flynn, you know they lost these files too.
The Deep State are doing their damnedest to make the unprincipled, lazy goons Antifa look good.
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