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House will make criminal referral on Erik Prince:
Adam Schiff says House to make criminal referral on Blackwater founder 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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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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