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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse will make criminal referral on Erik Prince:
House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff says the panel will be moving to make a criminal referral for former Blackwater security firm founder Erik Prince to the Justice Department for allegedly misleading the committee and making false statements. Schiff, speaking at an event at the Washington Post on Tuesday, said there was "very strong evidence" that Prince "willingly" did so.
Prince, now the head of the Hong Kong-based company Frontier Services Group, has ties to President Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon and is the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
After reading special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report, Schiff said that "the evidence is so weighty that the Justice Department needs to consider this." Schiff said Prince's testimony on his dealings with the Trump campaign, particularly a meeting he took in the Seychelles with a Russian banker close to President Vladimir Putin just nine days before Mr. Trump's inauguration, has proven to be overwhelming false.
"This meeting in the Seychelles with this Russian banker was purely by chance, he just happened to be there and his hosts suggested, he just happened to go to the Seychelles for about a day and have a chance meeting with this Russian banker," Schiff said to a crowd of laughs. That chance encounter was reportedly part of a larger effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and the incoming president.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/adam-schiff-says-house-to-make-criminal-referral-to-justice-on-blackwater-founder-erik-prince/?__twitter_impression=true
oswaldactedalone
(3,489 posts)That pig deserves a one way ticket to hell.
Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)So many crimes, so little time.
Texin
(2,585 posts)NCLefty
(3,678 posts)Or maybe not, since it's not Trump or an elected Republican and he can only land so many planes before the public catches on.
shanti
(21,670 posts)under all of this stress, and he's not a young man. How are all these geezers doing it??
ChazInAz
(2,535 posts)They must have access to a copious supply of virgin's blood.
malaise
(267,815 posts)RFN
tblue37
(64,980 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)babylonsister
(170,963 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,375 posts)triron
(21,915 posts)pwb
(11,205 posts)Mercenaries start shit and get paid for it. Fuck him.
pecosbob
(7,509 posts)but yeah, this is six months old.
TygrBright
(20,733 posts)tblue37
(64,980 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)Better look into his sleazebag sister, too.
wiggs
(7,788 posts)Mueller report, Steele dossier, Flynn criminality...all that is viewed in a different light now that the Ukraine and Turkey debacles are coming to light and are current.
It's clear to many now that lying, corruption, treachery, and self-dealing are part of Trump's MO...and they may more easily accept that it has happened before.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)Hassler
(3,326 posts)herding cats
(19,549 posts)That's what I'm seeing.
tblue37
(64,980 posts)must have missed the article's date, and then I did, too.
Still, I was unaware of this happening in April, so I hope it hasn't since been shut down by Barr's compromised DOJ.
herding cats
(19,549 posts)Karadeniz
(22,276 posts)cp
(6,543 posts)Someday, somewhere, Karma!
klook
(12,134 posts)Anything new on this?
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Suspect it will come out again, this time with other 'complementary' matters.
ffr
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