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    Cliff Notes Day 2 John Durham / Michael Sussman Trial



    Onto the witnesses. We start with the short testimony of Deborah Fine.

    Fine began working for the Hillary Clinton Campaign (aka Hillary for America) as “one of several deputy general counsels” in May 2016. She answered to Marc Elias, the campaign’s general counsel.

    After being presented with calendar entries confirming her daily calls with Fusion GPS, she testified that she worked with them as “part of my work for the campaign.” In fact, she regularly interacted with Glenn Simpson and co-founder Peter Fritsch. Fine conceded that Fusion GPS were seemingly free to conduct research on their own, stating she “personally didn’t direct them” to accomplish specific tasks.

    On cross, she admitted she didn’t now if Marc Elias spoke to anyone else at the Clinton Campaign about the activities of Fusion GPS. She was out of the loop regarding efforts to bring the Alfa Bank allegations to the NY Times or to the FBI.

    Testimony of Laura Seago

    Laura Seago worked with Fusion GPS back in 2016, where she reported directly to Fritsch and Simpson. She has been granted immunity by the Special Counsel for her testimony. She understood Marc Elias to be the Fusion GPS contact for the Clinton Campaign.

    Seago stated she was present at a summer 2016 meeting with “Mr. Elias, my colleague Peter Fritsch from Fusion GPS, Mr. Sussmann, and Mr. Sussmann’s client Rodney Joffe.” As to the nature of that meeting:

    “The general purpose, to the best of my recollection, was to discuss allegations of communications between the Trump organization and Alfa-Bank.”

    Once the Alfa Bank allegations were developed, Seago met with journalist Franklin Foer (who would write the October 31, 2016 Alfa Bank article in Slate). The purpose of that meeting was to discuss “the allegations of communication between the Trump Organization and Alfa-Bank.”



    They sold Foer on the Alfa Bank data at that meeting, telling him there were “highly credible computer scientists who seemed to think that these allegations were credible.” These “credible computer scientists” would ultimately be cited in Foer’s article. She admitted that Fusion GPS did nothing to validate the DNS records - something she said was “beyond my capabilities.”

    Seago was walked-through a number of e-mails she had with Joffe and other members of Fusion GPS. Some of these were privileged (the Joffe e-mails) so the Special Counsel was unable to discuss with Seago the contents. However, she did know about contents of the Joffe e-mails generally:



    Now we get to Marc Elias.

    Elias meet weekly with Fusion GPS at his office. Typically Peter Fritsch and Glenn Simpson would be in attendance. Generally, those meetings involved discussions of Elias’s “needs” and Fusion GPS’s “work” - which included what Elias described as the “unusual connections” the Trump Campaign had with Russia. They would also report to Elias on their findings related to Trump during the election.

    Notably, Elias mentioned Jake Sullivan as someone at the Clinton Campaign who knew about the Trump/Russia research (though there is uncertainty as to whether Sullivan knew about Fusion’s activities). Elias would give the campaign these updates.

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    Day 2 Afternoon Session John Durham / Michael Sussman Trial

    The Special Counsel undoubtedly proved that that Sussmann was billing his time on the Alfa Bank work to the Clinton Campaign.



    Then there’s the infamous Slate article on the Alfa Bank/Trump connections. Sussmann told Elias that the Alfa Bank data had been provided to the media. And after the Slate article was published, Elias forwarded it to the campaign:





    After the witness and jury left, the Special Counsel informed the court that the next witnesses after Baker would be Bill Priestap, Trish Anderson, and Special Agent Gaynor.
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    Day 3 John Durham / Michael Sussman Trial

    Today, it’s the morning testimony of former FBI general counsel James Baker. Yesterday we discussed how Sussmann reached out - not on behalf of a client - to share the purported Alfa Bank/Trump data. Here he discusses what occurred during that fateful meeting in September 2016...





    As to whether Sussmann lied? Baker is “100% confident” he did...



    He (Baker) repeated what Sussmann said about not being there on behalf of a client to the FBIs Bill Priestap. Regarding why it was brought to Priestap’s attention, and why it was brought to Comey’s attention: "Because it involved Russia"



    After the Sussmann meeting, the FBI met with NY Times reporters to discuss the Potential Alfa Bank story. Sussmann had furthered his goal, it seems: for the FBI investigation to spur media interest in the story. After all, the data itself was insufficient.

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    Day 3 (continued);John Durham / Michael Sussman Trial



    AND WITH THAT, reporters are being booted out, Out, OUT! of the media room. So, while this thread ends for the day, The Epoch Times coverage continues via my colleague Zack Stieber at https://theepochtimes.com.




    Who needs to spend millions on television commercials or Facebook ads if you’ve got friends in the FBI who can pull off a political dirty trick for you?

    Just look how cozy Hillary Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann and FBI general counsel James A. Baker are in text messages revealed in Thursday’s testimony at Sussmann’s trial.

    Can you meet tomorrow, Sussmann asks the high-ranking government official. “OK, I will find a time,” Baker answers. Does he need help getting into the building? No, Sussmann answers, I have a badge to get into the Federal Bureau of Investigation. How convenient.


    It was during this meeting that Sussmann peddled the false story that Donald Trump was secretly communicating with a Russian bank.

    Sussmann obviously is guilty of the crime of which special counsel John Durham accuses him, lying to the FBI, despite his claims otherwise. He specifically says to Baker that he’s not coming in “on behalf of any client or company” when he was working for *Clinton.


    But are we really to believe Baker didn’t know that Sussmann — a well-known Democratic lawyer who can drop by the FBI at the drop of a hat — was a *biased tipster? Worse, when Baker passes Sussmann’s story to FBI agents, he doesn’t tell them where it’s coming from, allowing the lawyer anonymity even as an investigation finds his tale is garbage.

    Durham is pursuing a narrow indictment, but what he’s exposing is far larger. An unethical Clinton campaign, a biased government bureaucracy, and an insouciant class of Beltway insiders who figured they could get away with anything.
    https://nypost.com/2022/05/19/how-fb...-clinton-plot/
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    Day 4 Robby Mook Testifies in John Durham / Michael Sussman Trial



    Hillary Clinton APPROVED sharing debunked 'covert' communications between Trump and Kremlin-backed bank with press - even though she wasn't 'totally confident' in the legitimacy, ex-campaign manager tells Durham trial



    - Robby Mook testified on Friday about the campaign meeting on the data
    - He told the trial of Michael Sussman that he was first briefed about Alfa Bank by campaign general counsel Marc Elias
    - Mook also said he discussed the data with Jake Sullivan and John Podesta
    - He admitted the campaign wasn't 'totally confident' in the 'legitimacy of the data,' but was hoping a reporter could get it confirmed
    - Sussman is accused of lying to the FBI about the fact that he was representing Clinton's 2016 campaign interests and that of another client


    Hillary Clinton's former campaign manager Robby Mook told a court on Friday that she signed off on sharing debunked allegations linking Donald Trump and the Kremlin-backed Alfa Bank with the media in the run-up to the 2016 election.

    Mook told the trial of Michael Sussman, the first to be indicted by Special Counsel John Durham in his Russia origins probe, that he was first briefed about Alfa Bank by campaign general counsel Marc Elias.

    He said he also discussed it with then senior adviser Jake Sullivan - now the White House National Security Adviser- and campaign chairman John Podesta about whether to share the information with a reporter.

    'I discussed it with Hillary as well,' Mook told the court.

    He also admitted the campaign wasn't 'totally confident in the legitimacy of the data', but was hoping a reporter would follow it up and determine if it was 'accurate' or 'substantive.'

    'I don't remember the substance of the conversation, but notionally, the discussion was, hey, we have this and we want to share it with a reporter,' Mook said.

    They decided to share it with the reporter after the meeting, he testified.

    'I recall it being a member of our press staff,' Mook said. 'We authorized a staff member to share it with the media.'

    The court was also shown the infamous October 31, 2016, message from Hillary saying: 'Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank'





    She included a statement from Sullivan titled 'exposing Trump's Secret Line of Communication to Russia'.




    Sussman is accused of lying to the FBI about the fact that he was representing Clinton's 2016 campaign interests and that of another client - although the campaign says it never authorized Sussman´s actions.

    James Baker was the FBI's general counsel in September 2016 when Sussmann scheduled a meeting to provide him with computer data that Sussmann said showed a potential secret communications channel between Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization.

    Sussmann is accused of lying to Baker during that meeting by saying he was not presenting the computer data on behalf of a particular client.

    Prosecutors allege Sussmann was not forthcoming about his Clinton ties because he assumed the FBI would consider the information less credible if it thought it was being presented with a partisan intent.

    The Sussmann prosecution was brought by John Durham, the prosecutor appointed as special counsel during the Trump administration to investigate potential government wrongdoing during the early days of the investigation into Russian election interference and potential ties with the Trump campaign.

    Defense lawyers have denied that Sussmann lied during the meeting and have suggested that it's impossible for prosecutors to prove exactly what he said because only Baker and Sussmann were in the meeting and neither of them took notes.

    James Baker testified that he remembers 100% that Sussman said he was not coming to the FBI on behalf of a client.


    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...er-claims.html
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    Day 5 (Second Week) John Durham / Michael Sussman Trial

    Today, FBI Agents took the stand...

    Durham puts FBI investigators on stand to substantiate materiality of alleged Sussmann lie to bureau
    FBI Agent Ryan Gaynor and former FBI Agent Allison Sands testified that clarity regarding source of Trump hotline-to-Kremlin tale could have changed the course of the investigation.

    As part of its effort to substantiate the materiality of Sussmann's alleged lie to the FBI, the prosecution brought FBI agent Ryan Gaynor and former FBI agent Allison Sands to the witness stand on Monday. Both were involved in the investigation into the Alfa Bank allegation

    Gaynor testified that had he known Sussmann was representing the DNC, he likely would not have volunteered to assist in the investigation. He also said that if Sussmann was paid by the DNC or the Clinton campaign, it might have impacted how the investigation was opened and the close-hold he says was placed on Sussmann's identity, which prevented him from being able to discuss it with the Chicago branch.

    Sands testified that she was informed the investigation began with a referral of information from the Department of Justice. Only later did she find out that the information actually came from then-FBI General Counsel James Baker. After that, she eventually learned that an anonymous third party gave Baker the data.

    Sands said that knowing the source of the information would have helped her assess its credibility. Sands explained that believing the information came from the DOJ gave it more weight than if someone just walked into the FBI with the data. She said that if the information hadn't come through the Justice Department, then she didn't know if it would have triggered a full investigation.



    https://truthsocial.com/users/Kash/s...54144436551687


    Back before anyone knew who he was, Q said remember the name of Kash Patel - here at post #894



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    Day 6 (2nd Week) John Durham / Michael Sussman Trial

    Tuesday, May 24, 2022

    Another FBI agent takes the stand - Curtis Heide





    His bad.

    An FBI agent already under scrutiny over claims he withheld key information in the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation admitted Tuesday to a screwup that led other agents to believe a probe of Trump-Russian bank links was spurred by the Justice Department — rather than a lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

    FBI agent Curtis Heide was asked by prosecutors about a communication drafted by him and fellow agent Allison Sands on Sept. 23, 2016, that stated “the DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE provided the FBI with a white paper that was produced by an anonymous third party.”

    “According to the white paper, a U.S.-based server that is owned by the TRUMP ORGANIZATION has been communicating with the Russian-based ALFA BANK organization in Moscow, Russia,” added the document, which functioned as confirmation that an investigation had been opened into the since-debunked allegation.

    “That’s a mistake in our paperwork,” Heide said of the DOJ reference.

    Asked by prosecutor Jonathan Algor how such a mistake could have been made, Heide answered, “I honestly don’t know” before adding that he and Sands may have conflated the department with the office of then-FBI general counsel Jim Baker.

    The “white paper” had been passed to Baker on Sept. 19, 2016, by Michael Sussmann, who is accused of lying to Baker by claiming he was not turning over the document on behalf of any client.

    Prosecutors led by special counsel John Durham say Sussmann was, in fact, acting for both the Clinton campaign and an internet executive, Rodney Joffe.

    The disclosure by Heide comes one day after another FBI agent, Ryan Gaynor, testified that bureau brass shielded Sussmann’s identity from investigating agents as part of a longstanding practice known as a “close hold.”


    Referring to Sussmann only as an “anonymous third party” appeared to frustrate investigators, according to emails introduced by prosecutors Monday.

    In one message from Oct. 3, 2016, Heide wrote to Gaynor, “We really want to interview the source of all this information. Any way we can track down who this guy is and how we’re getting this information?”

    Gaynor responded that it was being discussed at headquarters, but did not provide the identity of the source.

    At the beginning of his testimony, Heide also revealed that he is being investigated in an FBI administrative inquiry for “not identifying exculpatory information as it pertained to one of the Crossfire Hurricane Investigations.” He allegedly left the information off a warrant application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

    When Algor asked Heide if he intentionally withheld information from the Crossfire Hurricane case team, the G-man replied, “No.”

    Defense attorney Sean Berkowitz raised the investigation into Heide’s alleged conduct during cross-examination.

    “That’s a serious allegation, right?” Berkowitz asked Heide at one point, suggesting it could have a serious “consequence on your career.”

    Heide acknowledged it could, but reiterated that the case is “still pending.”
    https://nypost.com/2022/05/24/fbi-ag...about-mistake/



    Also See...
    FBI brass were ‘fired up’ about now-debunked Trump-Russia ties: texts, testimony

    Agent Joe Pientka texted colleague Curtis Heide: “People on 7th floor to include Director are fired up about this server.”

    The “7th floor” refers to the most senior FBI agents and officials, who have their offices on the seventh floor of bureau headquarters in Washington.

    “Did you guys open a case? Reachout and put tools on?” Pientka asked. “If not I will call Dan as Bill Priestap says it's not an option – we must do it.”

    Bill Priestap was the assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division at the time.

    “Roger,” Heide replied. “we are opening a counterintelligence case today.”

    Later in the day, Pientka told Heide that a unit would be assigned to the case shortly, adding, “go forth and conquer.” He then referred Heide to FBI agent Nate Batty, who Pientka said was in possession of thumb drives handed over to Baker by Sussmann.

    “Can you hit him up?” Pientka asked.

    “Alright,” Heide answered, “we’ll get him to push them to us … he’ll know how to do that.”

    “Word,” Pientka responded, later adding in subsequent messages: “Sweet. Thanks from us to all.”
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    Day 7 and The Prosecution RESTS in John Durham / Michael Sussman Trial

    Jury sees conflicting evidence on Michael Sussmann's role at FBI Trump-Russia meeting
    The prosecution rested in the false-statement case brought by special counsel John Durham.



    An entry on Sussmann’s expense reports reflects $58.56 billed to the Clinton campaign for thumb drives on Sept. 13, 2016, six days before his meeting with Baker. However, a receipt from a Staples store near Sussmann’s office in downtown Washington, D.C., showed he bought multiple thumb drives that day, raising the possibility that some were billed to the campaign and others were not.

    Sussmann’s defense further muddied the waters by pointing to another expense submission explicitly linked to his Sept. 19 meeting at the FBI: $28.00 for taxi fares that day. Sussmann charged those fares to a generic business development account at his then-law firm, Perkins Coie.

    “It’s not billed to Hillary for America,” defense attorney Michael Bosworth pointed out.

    Sussmann’s billing records from Perkins Coie produced similar ambiguity. Assistant special counsel Michael Keilty showed jurors an email Sussmann sent to an assistant on Sept. 20, instructing her to record four-and-a-half hours of work for the Clinton campaign the previous day for “work on written materials; other work and multiple telephone conferences regarding confidential project.” Keilty also displayed an email Sussmann sent two days before the November election, asking that 3.3 hours of work be recorded for the Clinton campaign on Sept. 19 for “work and comms regarding confidential project.” It was unclear whether the latter entry was supposed to replace the former or supplement it.

    Bosworth suggested that the firm billing entries are no smoking gun because neither says anything about the FBI. He also noted that other entries in Sussmann’s billing records do explicitly identify meetings at the FBI for the Clinton campaign.

    Durham’s prosecutors closed out their case by reading Sussmann’s testimony to the House Intelligence Committee in December 2017, where he indicated that his meeting at the FBI in September 2016 and another February 2017 meeting at the CIA, were in fact for a client.

    “I think it’s most accurate to say it was done on behalf of my client,” Sussmann said then. He didn’t say which client during that testimony but, in addition to the Clinton campaign, Sussmann was representing a tech executive, Rodney Joffe. Joffe was one of several tech experts who were gathering data in the summer and fall of 2016 about the alleged data link between Trump and Alfa Bank, a Russian bank with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    The FBI’s investigation into the allegations concluded that the evidence Sussmann turned over did not actually show a secret communications channel but was likely the product of “spam” marketing emails.

    After Durham’s team rested their case Wednesday, Sussmann’s defense called two former Justice Department attorneys who attended a March 2017 briefing where the Alfa-Bank allegations were discussed. Tashina Gauhar and Mary McCord. Both said they had little or no recollection of the session.

    Jurors also heard from former FBI agent Tom Grasso, who said Joffe had done excellent work helping the bureau with a previous cyber investigation and was unlikely to have deliberately given the FBI false information.

    The defense appears to be nearing a decision about whether to call Sussmann to testify in his own defense. His attorneys have not indicated publicly whether he plans to take the stand. Closing arguments in the case could come by the end of the week.
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    Michael Sussman Defense RESTS

    Michael Sussmann did not testify in trial, defense rests ahead of closing arguments

    Special Counsel John Durham's team and Sussman's attorneys are expected to give closing arguments Friday
    Michael Sussmann said Thursday he will not testify in his trial in which Special Counsel John Durham alleges he made a false statement to the FBI when he claimed he was not bringing Trump-Russia allegations to the bureau on behalf of any client, while he represented the Clinton campaign.

    Sussmann, speaking for the first time in the nearly two-week-long trial, affirmed to U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper Thursday that he will not take the stand in his defense — despite leaving the door open for his testimony throughout the trial.

    The defense rested Thursday morning. The government and defense are expected to deliver their closing arguments Friday.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mic...s-durham-probe

    Update: Verdict will be held until Tuesday, May 31st
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    Michael Sussman Has Been ACQUITTED by DC Jury

    Oh the Irony - Russia Hoax was a Lie, but, Sussman didn't lie about it!



    The acquittal is no surprise.
    REMINDER: Judge in Sussmann Trial is Married to Lisa Page’s Lawyer



    This is a DC jury, after all. In the Roger Stone case, for example, we documented how a juror (Tomeka Hart) lied to get on the panel. (That judge didn’t care.)





    Sussman Trial Judge - Making matters worse, the Sussman judge wrongly allowed for a woman to remain on the jury, despite the fact that her daughter and Sussmann’s are on the same high school crew team. One can’t help but think that juror had her own daughter’s interests in mind – the cohesion of the crew team – when she reached a decision.

    Sussman Jury Is Loaded with Dems Who Hate Trump

    On the facts, there was more than sufficient evidence to prove Sussmann’s guilt. Sussmann lied to then-FBI general counsel James Baker in order to get a meeting to pass the Alfa Bank hoax materials to the FBI. Sussmann lied again during the meeting – stating he was not there on behalf of a client – in order to get the FBI to open an investigation into the Trump Organization’s purported ties with Alfa Bank. Later, during testimony to Congress, Sussmann admitted he met with Baker on behalf of a client. Billing records proved he had been working on the Alfa Bank project on behalf of the Clinton Campaign.

    I won’t say the verdict doesn’t matter. Of course it matters. It would have proven that a DC jury can convict one of their own. It would have resulted in accountability for lying to the FBI. Not the gravest of crimes, but it is still a crime.

    In large part, the prosecution of Sussmann was hamstrung by the FBI’s investigation into the Alfa Bank allegations. That goes to materiality. How can the lies be material if the FBI’s investigation was so sloppy? (Answer: they were material because the lies helped open the investigation in the first place.)
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    BEST THING TO COME OUT OF SUSSMAN TRIAL?...

    Trial Revealed Clinton Role in Russia ‘Collusion’ Hoax

    ”Let’s See What Happens” - See posts #3880 & #3881

    Observers agreed that the evidence against Sussmann was convincing, but that he might prevail based on “jury nullification” — an effort by the jury to reject the charges, regardless of guilt, because of their political sympathies with the defendant.

    Columnist Byron York of the Washington Examiner observed in the hours before the verdict was delivered on Tuesday:
    There is no doubt Sussmann lied to the FBI. There is no doubt he is guilty. But the trial is taking place in Washington, perhaps the deepest-blue jury pool in the United States. Durham’s prosecutors are “facing a jury that has three Clinton donors, an AOC donor, and a woman whose daughter is on the same sports team as Sussmann’s daughter,” George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said recently on Fox News. “With the exception of randomly selecting people out of DNC headquarters, you could not come up with a worse jury.”



    So those are two major revelations from the Sussmann trial: Elements in and around the Clinton campaign sought to weaponize the FBI, and the FBI welcomed the effort — all in the name of defeating the Republican nominee for president.



    So the Clinton strategy worked. No, it did not make Clinton president of the U.S. The voters just did not want that. But it did enormous damage to the Trump presidency and the Trump administration.

    Still, Durham succeeded in revealing that Clinton herself personally approved the leak of the Alfa Bank hoax to the media. The Alfa Bank hoax was intended as an “October surprise” to damage Trump in the days before voters headed to the polls.

    Durham’s investigation will continue, and in October he will prosecute Igor Danchenko, a researcher who allegedly was the source for former British spy Christopher Steele, who worked for Fusion GPS to produce the fraudulent “Russia dossier” on Trump. The Sussmann trial confirmed that the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid Fusion GPS, through Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias. However, Durham’s ability to obtain further indictments may be limited.

    Interesting New Developments...
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    ICYMI - Arkancide Claims a Couple More Bodies...

    There's Been Two Strange and Coincidental 'Suicides' in Arkansas With Connections To Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein...




    Chris Cox Heifer, a spokesman for Heifer International, said that ranch workers found Middleton's car in the parking lot and notified the sheriff.

    The body was found shortly afterwards.

    Heifer told DailyMail.com: 'He wasn't invited to the property and staff became aware that he was there without authorization.

    'We have not found any connection to Heifer.

    'The ranch is well known in the area and it's possible that he could have attended something here but we couldn't' find any major links.

    'The ranch hosts school groups for things like lambing so he could have attended one of those. It's a very unfortunate incident.'

    In an interview with RadarOnline – before he decided to clam up – Sheriff Montgomery said Middleton was discovered hanging from a tree with a shotgun blast to his chest.

    He reportedly used an extension cord as a noose and created makeshift gallows underneath the tree which appeared to be there as a failsafe in case the shotgun blast didn't kill him.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...g-suicide.html
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    Ashley Haynes: Fresh Scrutiny Into Death of Model Linked to Murdered Clinton Moneyman Mark Middleton


    https://www.ibtimes.sg/ashley-haynes...iddleton-65094



    A second bizarre death has been linked to the mysterious Arkansas suicide of the former presidential advisor who introduced President Bill Clinton to billionaire perv Jeffrey Epstein – and only Radar has the shocking details of the rapidly growing body count.

    Ashley Haynes, 47, was found drowned in the Arkansas River with an extension cord knotted to her ankle and attached to a concrete block --just months before businessman Mark Middleton’s body was discovered hanging from a tree with the same style electrical cord wrapped around his neck and a close-range shotgun blast through his chest.

    A stunned business associate who knew Middleton and is calling for an independent investigation into his May 7th death tells RadarOnline.com, that it’s beyond coincidence that Haynes, 47, had visited Clinton’s now-dead pal’s office to discuss a financial matter.

    I saw her in Mark’s office!” the business associate tells RadarOnline.com. “I was leaving and he (Middleton) was telling me that he had a very important financial meeting – and that’s the woman who came in!”

    “I don’t know if there is anything connection there or not, but I know that it was shocking to me to hear she drowns while paddling in the Arkansas River,” the source said. “Then Mark mysteriously dies a few months later?”

    Haynes, a mother of two from the Little Rock suburb of Maumelle, vanished on Jan. 12 after leaving a note on her kitchen island counter stating “on the water, love you all.” She was last seen by a local resident paddle boarding in a wetsuit, according to the police report obtained by RadarOnline.com.

    After a massive search, her corpse was discovered four days later by a family friend – submerged in 10 feet of water!

    “Mrs. Haynes had a bag strapped to her leg with a green extension cord,” states the police report. “Inside the bag was a large concrete block that measured 16x16x4.”

    A source close to Haynes, who worked for a charitable group to feed and clothe the homeless, tells Radar the 110-pound former model turned yoga teacher, would have never taken her own life – let alone paddleboard down the river lugging a 58-pound concrete suicide block!

    “It didn’t make any sense, she would never kill herself,” the Haynes source said. “When I heard she went missing I knew instantly it was foul play. I don’t believe she killed herself. How could she water paddle down the river with a concrete block!”

    Middleton’s death is equally baffling.

    Clinton’s former presidential campaign finance director was found hanging from a tree with a cheap Dollar Store-type extension cord around his neck after trespassing on a farm with a table to construct makeshift gallows.

    “Everyone that I know here, that has worked with Mark, knows it is physically impossible for Mark to have killed himself,” Middleton’s business associate tells RadarOnline.com.

    Middleton and Haynes are part of a growing list of corpses linked to Clinton and Epstein, who was found hanging inside his New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting sex trafficking charges.

    The others include Epstein’s closest associate Jean-Luc Brunel, the 76-year-old French modeling scout turn pimp who was found hanging inside his Paris, France jail cell; and Clinton/Epstein pal Steve Bing, 55, who allegedly committed suicide by falling from a 27-story Los Angeles building in 2020.

    The business associate tells Radar Middleton was actively engaged in financial investments with the same Little Rock characters who allegedly worked with John Glasgow, the chief financial officer of CDI Contractors Inc., the lead firm that constructed the Clinton library.

    Glasgow vanished without a trace in 2008 after reporting financial irregularities with the Clinton library construction costs and his skeletal remains were found at Petit Jean State Park in 2015. His cause of death is undetermined.
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    Prosecutors asked for 30-55 Years - Ghislaine Got 20 for Sex Trafficking



    Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case
    By Ben Feuerherd, Elizabeth Rosner and Ben Kesslen
    June 28, 2022 2:30pm Updated

    Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 in prison Tuesday for her role in helping powerful pedophile Jeffrey Epstein abuse young girls, capping off a dramatic fall from grace for the British socialite turned-convicted sex-trafficker.

    US District Judge Alison Nathan said the sentence of 240 months was “sufficient and not greater than necessary,” for Maxwell, who earlier addressed the court and told her victims, “I am sorry for the pain that you experienced.”

    “I hope my conviction and harsh incarceration brings you closure,” said Maxwell, 60, wearing blue jail scrubs, her dark brown locks cut in a bob.

    Maxwell’s face remained inscrutable as she learned her fate, and she left the courtroom without speaking to her siblings, who were sitting in the row behind her.

    Her attorneys requested that she serve out her time at the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, the low-security women’s lockup that served as the inspiration for Netflix’s “Orange Is The New Black.”

    Her sentencing marked the end of the federal criminal proceedings against her in the Southern District of New York, where she was brought after her arrest at a sprawling New Hampshire estate in July 2020. She could potentially get credit for the two years she’s already spent behind bars, or have some of her time shaved off for good behavior.

    “Today’s sentence holds Ghislaine Maxwell accountable for perpetrating heinous crimes against children,” US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams said in a statement. “This sentence sends a strong message that no one is above the law and it is never too late for justice.”

    Outside the courthouse, Maxwell’s attorney Bobbi Sternheim said her client would appeal, saying she had been, “sentenced to an extremely long term.”

    The heiress — who spent much of her life hobnobbing with the rich and famous — learned her fate months after she was convicted of grooming and trafficking teenagers for Epstein, a wealthy financier and her onetime boyfriend.

    Four women testified at her widely-publicized trial in Manhattan federal court — and two of them and several other accusers also addressed the court Tuesday, calling on the judge to lock Maxwell up and throw away the key.

    “Maxwell had many opportunities to come clean, but instead continued to make choices that caused more harm,” Annie Farmer, who testified at trial, wrote in a statement filed ahead of the hearing.

    Virginia Giuffre Roberts, who has long accused Maxwell and Epstein of trafficking her to Britain’s Prince Andrew, described Maxwell as “like a wolf in sheep’s clothing” in her letter to the court.

    “Ghislaine, you deserve to spend the rest of your life in a jail cell,” she wrote. “You deserve to be trapped in a cage forever, just like you trapped your victims.”

    Prosecutors had asked US District Judge Alison Nathan to slap Maxwell with between 30 to 55 years in prison, effectively a life sentence.. Maxwell’s defense attorneys, meanwhile, had begged for leniency, saying she should get no more than four to five years, while probation officials recommended 20. Maxwell has denied that she abused anyone. READ MORE -

    Q is 3 for 3 in this photo - All 3 are (or, were) in prison - one was suicided while in prison…



    Q used the photo in this post -
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    Tucker Carlson Tonight Says Covid Virus Engineered and Purposely Released

    To Change The World Order Elevating China



    Worth Reviewing Q Posts on Covid...Q said it first (Future Proves Past)... see post #3095 - 3096, also #3108 and, #3113

    Post #3122 reminds us we are at WAR with those who unleashed the coronavirus (Foreign and Domestic)
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    Tucker Carlson Explains Why Hunter’s Laptop is REALLY Being Censored - CHINA



    Related Q posts—-

    China, Covid, Biden - #3873

    Biden Family got RICH off pubic service - here at #3932

    Biden, Child Sex Trafficking - #3935

    Clear and Present Danger/National Security Risk - #3936
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    Democrat Leaders & Corrupt FBI Conspired & Lied To Protect Biden/Laptop/Corruption

    Attorney TechnoFog explains in laymen's terms the Grassley news from yesterday...


    Yesterday, Senator Chuck Grassley sent this letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray regarding allegations from “highly credible whistleblowers” about the FBI’s “false portrayal” of derogatory Hunter Biden materials as “disinformation.”

    If these allegations are true, it’s a damning depiction of FBI leadership and it proves their efforts to influence the 2020 election. This is the second (if not third) straight election the FBI has meddled in, given the influence the Trump/Russia investigation - and its unlawful origins with the FBI - had over the 2018 midterms.

    Grassley’s whistleblowers allege that in August 2020, FBI Headquarters “improperly discredit[ed] negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.” In fact, it was a scheme of top FBI officials. As Grassley explains:

    “the allegations provided to my office appear to indicate that there was a scheme in place among certain FBI officials to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation.”
    The context and timing is important, as this was leading up to the 2020 election. Who benefited from this scheme? Democrat candidate Joe Biden. And it appears the FBI’s scheme furthered the interests of Congressional Democrats. Here’s how that happened.

    On July 13, 2020, Democrat leaders – Chuck Schumer, Mark Warner, Nancy Pelosi, and Adam Schiffsent this letter to the FBI alleging that “Congress was the subject of a foreign disinformation campaign.” The Democrats demanded that “the FBI provide a classified defensive briefing” on the issue of foreign disinformation, and that “the briefing draw on all-source intelligence information and analysis.” Parts of that letter were leaked to tie the Congressional Hunter Biden investigation to foreign disinformation.

    Three days later, on July 16, 2020, Democrat Senators Gary Peters and Ron Wyden made their own demand of an FBI and intelligence community briefing related to purported foreign interference.

    According to Grassley, these Democrat efforts resulted in an unnecessary briefing from the FBI in August 2020 relating to “disinformation” – which was later leaked to the press to paint the Biden investigation “in a false light.” In other words, the FBI was more than willing to be used by the Democrats less than 3 months before the 2020 election.

    Then there’s also the issue of FBI Headquarters interfering in the Hunter Biden investigation. Grassley states:
    in September 2020, investigators from the same FBI HQ team were in communication with FBI agents responsible for the Hunter Biden information targeted by Auten’s assessment. The FBI HQ team’s investigators placed their findings with respect to whether reporting was disinformation in a restricted access sub-file reviewable only by the particular agents responsible for uncovering the specific information.
    The FBI Headquarters team “made findings” to whether certain reporting was disinformation – and then they limited access to those findings. This begs the question: what were those findings, and did they conflict with the popular narrative, falsely peddled by the Democrats and the media and former intelligence officials, that the Hunter Biden materials were disinformation?

    The FBI was reticent to share this information before the election. When then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe stated there was “no intelligence to support” allegations of Russian disinformation efforts tied to the Hunter Biden materials, the FBI responded they had “nothing to add at this time.” Of course, this is apparently now disproven. The FBI had something to add. They just didn’t want to share it with the American people.

    AND THERE'S STILL MORE HERE
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