Special Counsel Refers Scheme Targeting Mueller to FBI

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The FBI has been asked to investigate claims that women have been offered money to fabricate sexual-harassment allegations against Special Counsel Robert Mueller

An alleged scheme to pay off women to fabricate sexual assault allegations against Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been referred to the FBI for further investigation, according to a spokesman for the special counsel’s office, Peter Carr. “When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the Special Counsel, we immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” Carr said in a statement on Tuesday.

The special counsel’s attention to this scheme—which was brought to the office by a woman claiming she herself had been offered money to make up sexual harassment claims against Mueller—and its decision to release a rare statement about it to reporters indicates the seriousness with which the office is taking the purported scheme to discredit Mueller in the middle of an ongoing investigation.

The special counsel’s office confirmed that the scheme was brought to its attention by several journalists who were told about it by a woman alleging  that she herself had been offered roughly $20,000 by a GOP activist named Jack Burkman “to make accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment against Robert Mueller.” The woman told journalists that she had worked for Mueller as a paralegal at the Pillsbury, Madison, and Sutro law firm in 1974. The firm has not returned a request for comment about whether the woman actually worked there.

He “offered to pay off all of my credit card debt, plus bring me a check for $20,000 if I would do one thing,” the woman wrote to the reporters in an email, a copy of which I obtained. “In more of an effort to get him to go away than anything else, I asked him what in the hell he wanted me to do. He said that we could not talk about it on the phone, and he asked me to download an app on my phone called Signal, which he said was more secure. Reluctantly, I downloaded the app and he called me on that app a few minutes later. He said (and I will never forget exactly what it was) ‘I want you to make accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment against Robert Mueller, and I want you to sign a sworn affidavit to that effect.’”

The woman was not willing to speak to the reporters by phone, according to Scott Stedman, one of the reporters who received the letter. So portions of her story have gone uncorroborated.  Around the time that the journalists began receiving the email, Burkman released a video on his Facebook page claiming, without evidence, that Mueller “has a whole lifetime history of harassing women.”  On Tuesday, the day the special counsel revealed that it had referred the woman’s claims to the FBI,  Burkman tweeted a similar allegation.

In a statement, Burkman denied knowing the woman who originally alerted journalists to the alleged scheme. But he told me in an email that “on Thursday 1200 NOON ROSSYLN HOLIDAY INN  we will present a very credible witness who will allege that Mr. Mueller committed against her a sexual assault.” Mueller’s spokesman reiterated that the claims are false. Burkman, a conservative radio host, is known for spreading conspiracy theories. He launched his own private investigation into the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich, and earlier this year offered $25,000 to FBI whistleblowers for any information exposing wrongdoing during the 2016 election.

Jack Burkman. Dude works at Newsmax. ‘nuff said. 

[AuCivilEng1 10,995]

Well that would be a quick way to get RM off Trump's ass, without pissing people off. So they were basically hoping to Al Franken  Mueller? 

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Jacob Wohl may be about to learn a  very important lesson.

 

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Bwahaha

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On the list of Dumb Things You Should Avoid Doing, being in any way involved with false allegations against a current or former director of the FBI should be in the top 3.

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9 minutes ago, Strychnine said:

On the list of Dumb Things You Should Avoid Doing, being in any way involved with false allegations against a current or former director of the FBI should be in the top 3.

He needs to take Popehat's advice above and shut the hell up. As of now he is still tweeting. 

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More on Jack Burkman. He's my neighbor (unfortunately) and is just a cookoo as this article makes him out to believe. I looked at his video on his FB page announcing his big presser on this.

[TitanTiger 20,472]

These idiots absolutely believe that the women who've made these accusations against people like Roy Moore and Kavanaugh were paid to do it.  They literally think the playbook is just to get women to make up a false accusation and bring someone down so they thought they'd try it.  

Simpletons, the lot of them.

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11 minutes ago, TitanTiger said:

These idiots absolutely believe that the women who've made these accusations against people like Roy Moore and Kavanaugh were paid to do it.  They literally think the playbook is just to get women to make up a false accusation and bring someone down so they thought they'd try it.  

Simpletons, the lot of them.

 

At the very least, they should have picked a better target.  The best investigative agency on the planet is not going to wear the egg on the their face of a former director being tarnished by sexual misconduct allegations without looking into it.  Pointing a gun like that at Mueller is asking for an FBI colonoscopy.  It is about as brilliant a plan as robbing a liquor store, while uploading a selfie depicting the robbery to Facebook.

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GOOD! GO QUIET! STAY QUIET! SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!

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“In the Cult of Trump, accusation is always a form of confession.  They called Christine Blasey Ford a liar trying to destroy a good man because *they* are liars who try to destroy a good man.”- Mark Shea

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46 minutes ago, TitanTiger said:

“In the Cult of Trump, accusation is always a form of confession.  They called Christine Blasey Ford a liar trying to destroy a good man because *they* are liars who try to destroy a good man.”- Mark Shea

When irony is busy hypocrisy is default. Accuse the other side of that which you’re guilty . You just can’t make this stuff up.

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When the GATEWAY PUNDIT know’s he’s in over his head, you know s*** has gotten real. 

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2 minutes ago, AUDub said:

When the GATEWAY PUNDIT know’s he’s in over his head, you know s*** has gotten real. 

In that vein:

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The moron is still tweeting. Gott im Himmel. 

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This is the sad state of American Politics today.

It is now time to Bork all your opponents.

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55 minutes ago, DKW 86 said:

This is the sad state of American Politics today.

It is now time to Bork all your opponents.

This is waaaaaay beyond Borking. 

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Farrow apparently didn't take the bait. 

 

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Like the group that tried to plant the faux accuser in the WaPo Roy Moore story. That’s just never going to work out. 

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15 hours ago, AUDub said:

This is waaaaaay beyond Borking. 

Stephanopoulos et al went door to door for XXX Rated Videos hoping to find some that Bork had rented. They were trying hard to taint his image and slime him with anything. By the way, after Bork, it became illegal to hold onto those records.

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https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2012/12/19/the-bork-law-how-a-25-year-old.html

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2710

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/04/28/how-washingtons-last-remaining-video-rental-store-changed-the-course-of-privacy-law/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8fe365844295

https://newrepublic.com/article/111331/robert-bork-dead-video-rental-records-story-sparked-privacy-laws

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-11-20-8703270590-story.html

Bork's political enemies went WAY beyond the pale to smear him. The journalist that went to the video store is now a national treasure in some very bad circles. The Federal Law is called the Video Privacy protection Act. Imagine your confirmation being such a clear smear job that it entered into federal laws enacted by Congress to protect itself. Bork will forever be the gold standard for smear. They even invented a new term, "borking."

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Maybe it's just me, but "digging for dirt" - however despicable the methods - falls pretty short of paying someone to make a false accusation. 

This is hard evidence for Republicans actually doing what they routinely accused Democrats of doing in the Kavanaugh hearing.

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Brett Kavanaugh says hello.

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1 hour ago, AUFAN78 said:

Brett Kavanaugh says hello.

Meaning what?