Rick Gates fyi

Updated,

2:16 pm:

Deripaska has a prior relationship to Mueller.  ( for heaven's sake! )

This story, as told from the perspective of Adam Waldman -Deripaska’s lawyer/lobbyist- is important because it highlights a connection between Robert Mueller and Oleg Deripaska; a connection Mueller and the DOJ/FBI never revealed on their own.---- Last Refuge

This stuff is so convoluted that they will never get at the truth.  Deripaska is playing both sides against each other.

Maybe I will close this thread now.  Just one more comment.  The whole thing should not have been given to Mueller as a Special Prosecutor.  It should have been handled internally.

The Clintonoids made it a political issue though, and that is why this shitshow continues.  Hopefully, the public will put an end to this.  The only way to possibly do this is to not put the Democrats back in control.


11:58 am:

A bit of a follow up here.  I checked Deripaska out a bit.  There's an article in Powerline that asks about him in connection to the recently released emails concerning Bruce Ohr.  Ohr was working with Steele on the Dossier, you see.  Deripaska may have been helping Steele produce the Dossier.

WTF???

Byron York discusses the Russian oligarch a bit more in connection with this.  Quote:

The emails raise a clear question of whether Steele was working, directly or indirectly, with Oleg Deripaska at the same time Steele was compiling the dossier — and whether the Justice Department, along with Simpson and Fusion GPS, was part of the project. Given Deripaska's place in the Russian power structure, what that means in the big picture is unclear.

My suspicions are that they are trying to frame Gates and Manafort with something that they did themselves.

the original post follows:

8:42 am:


Who is this guy?

Gates was the star witness in the Manafort trial, which is in the hands of the jury as I write this.

Gates is a political consultant who pled guilty to the following charges:

• conspiracy against the United States, and
• making false statements.

Using Gates is a reach, in my opinion.  Obviously, he has a credibility problem from the very start.

The conspiracy statute is quite vague and all encompassing.  Evidently, the government can try anyone on anything, and could quite possibly jail anyone they pleased.  Just my opinion, there.  I mean, where is the limitation upon government powers?

What exactly was Gates conspiring to do, and with whom?  It doesn't say.  Perhaps a little digging can find that answer.

I find in the footnotes a New York Times article.  The name Oleg Deripaska comes up.  I have seen that name in connection to all this.  Was it connected to that Dossier?  This source says Deripaska employed Manafort.  The source has plenty of stuff that looks murky to me.  No comment on that.

This trial looks like it is trying to establish a predicate for an investigation, when that predicate should have been established before Mueller was even hired.  Where's the crime?

If the crime is conspiracy, then what did the conspiracy consist of?  Winning an election?  So, that is now illegal? 

Why did Mueller want Gates?  To establish his own reason for existence as an investigator.