Remember this unsolved matter from Mueller investigation?

[Grasswire2]

Still ongoing, quietly?

"This explosive, nearly forgotten 5/2/18 NYT story is key to Trump’s full implosion in the months ahead.

This is a separate Trump/Giuliani Ukraine extortion/bribery plot, but much bigger. Mueller handed this off. Its part of a HUGE ongoing investigation."


[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/world/europe/ukraine-mueller-manafort-missiles.html|

[malaise]

1. Get thee to the greatest page

Justice is coming

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Wait, there's more!!!!

I suspect more criminal behaviour will be exposed, compelling yet another Trump Impeachment Investigation. Send to the Senate 9/15/2020.

If Republicans want to leave it to the voters, than the voters need to see more evidence of Trump crimes with Republican duplicity in letting him skate.

[dewsgirl]

4. Between now and the election, I expect torrents of

damaging leaks.

[sprinkleeninow]

13. How could it not... With his track record...

he caint hep hisself..

[sprinkleeninow]

15. "...leave it to the voters..."

Said repeatedly in the sing song style of 'The Richmeister. 😌

Well, y'all left it and the citizenry is takin' it...

[blm]

3. Never forgotten.

DU file cabinets are full.

[Hoyt]

5. Those "on-going investigations" appear to have been put in a bottom drawer.

[Frustratedlady]

6. Isn't there another whistleblower on the IRS audits?

Those are on Trump AND Pence. Might as well fill the net in one fell swoop.

[Jarqui]

7. Have you or NYT forgotten who the Attorney General is?

He is part of the cover up ... of Mueller's report and Ukraine and everything else related negatively to Trump

[Grasswire2]

12. leaks work nt

[Jarqui]

16. Not so well here

(for example - projected paraphrase statement) "We cannot acknowledge the existence of or comment on an ongoing criminal investigation"

It's a great way to cover up bad stuff.
You can bet that is exactly what Barr will do.
He'll start an investigation.
He won't reveal what is going on or who is handling it
He'll take whatever the FBI hands off to review it ... only to let it die.

They can leak their brains out.
With a corrupt AG, how can it proceed to a meaningful place?

And remember, this AG maintains this President cannot be charged with a crime while he is in office.

[Tweedy]

21. On going grand juries

Are not so easily closed even by someone who believes, like our current AG, that if the president does it & he identifies as a republican, it cannot be illegal.

It is the policy of the DOJ to not comment on existing investigations, too.

On a different investigative front, it is very troubling that SDNY is asserting what looks like Rudy & the president's "privacy interests" and "attorney client" interests in the Parnas-Furman prosecution

https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/01/28/sdny-prosecutors-protect-trumps-privacy-to-enter-into-a-joint-defense-agreement-with-the-russian-mob/

[Jarqui]

22. That is very true about Grand Juries. However,

where is the evidence and transcripts form Mueller's efforts?
Barr blocked them.

What stops Barr from switching out a prosecutor on a troublesome case to install someone willing to do his bidding? Nothing.

What stops Barr from suspending his prosecutors effort in a Grand Jury while they decide to look for more evidence or examine new evidence or divert their efforts to something Barr deems "more important" (and delay the proceeding almost indefinitely)

Barr has already defied a court order. Trump can too. What are you going to do, impeach them?

[Tweedy]

23. There is that

[DallasNE]

17. The Attorney For DC Was Abruptly Fired And

The temporary replacement is someone working for Barr. No reasons given but it sure looks like an attempt to deep six this investigation.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/doj-jessie-liu-has-been-removed-from-the-doj-and-replaced-with-barrs-own-staff-attorney/

[pandr32]

19. Why am I not surprised?

Time to circulate this.

[Wednesdays]

8. Please post a brief summary of the article

I can't read the article because it's behind a paywall.

[Grasswire2]

11. Behind a paywall for me, too.

NYT shows a free option at the link where you can create a free NYT account for reading.

[progressoid]

25. It's from May 2, 2018

KIEV, Ukraine — In the United States, Paul J. Manafort is facing prosecution on charges of money laundering and financial fraud stemming from his decade of work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine.

But in Ukraine, where officials are wary of offending President Trump, four meandering cases that involve Mr. Manafort, Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman, have been effectively frozen by Ukraine’s chief prosecutor.

The cases are just too sensitive for a government deeply reliant on United States financial and military aid, and keenly aware of Mr. Trump’s distaste for the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, into possible collusion between Russia and his campaign, some lawmakers say.

The decision to halt the investigations by an anticorruption prosecutor was handed down at a delicate moment for Ukraine, as the Trump administration was finalizing plans to sell the country sophisticated anti-tank missiles, called Javelins.

...etc

[Snarkoleptic]

9. Barr's gonna need a bigger rug to sweep shit under!

Shouldn't be a problem, since McTurtle has anointed King Trump.

[magicarpet]

10. Yes billy barr,...djt's roy cohen,..

.... is working in the background to quietly shutdown any DOJ cases in any fed court against team djt.

SDNY was about to close flynn's case with six months in jail. Now billy barr has that worked down to zero jail time and just probation.

If djt's co-conspirators can be kept happy (no jail time) they are far less likely to make a stink about the criminal actions perpetrated by team djt.

[Texin]

20. Yes. Barr is dismantling the DOJ and personally appointing tRumpsters to Federal

benches West Coast to East Coast and wherever there's a vacancy.

[DanieRains]

14. They Are All Just Criminals Barr Trump Flynn Manafort Etc.

Flynn. Multiple felonies. Zero cooperation. Zero jail time.

Something smell here?

[BigOleDummy]

24. To high heaven

The stink from our rulers and their lackeys is getting worse by the day.

[sandensea]

18. Which, of course, is exactly what the Fat Bastard keeps accusing Biden of doing

i.e. of having leaned on Ukrainian prosecutors to drop an inconvenient case.