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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/sidney-powells-secret-intelligence-contractor-witness-is-a-pro-trump-podcaster/2020/12/24/d5a1ab9e-4403-11eb-a277-49a6d1f9dff1_story.html
As she asked the U.S. Supreme Court this month to overturn President Trumps election loss, the attorney Sidney Powell cited testimony from a secret witness presented as a former intelligence contractor with insights on a foreign conspiracy to subvert democracy.
Powell told courts that the witness is an expert who could show that overseas corporations helped shift votes to President-elect Joe Biden. The witnesss identity must be concealed from the public, Powell has said, to protect her reputation, professional career and personal safety.
The Washington Post identified the witness by determining that portions of her affidavit match, sometimes verbatim, a blog post that the pro-Trump podcaster Terpsichore Maras-Lindeman published in November 2019. In an interview, Maras-Lindeman confirmed that she wrote the affidavit and said she viewed it as her contribution to a fight against the theft of the election.
This is everybodys duty, she said. Its just not fair.
In a recent civil fraud case, attorneys for the state of North Dakota said that Maras-Lindeman falsely claimed to be a medical doctor and to have both a PhD and an MBA. They said she used multiple aliases and social security numbers and created exaggerated online résumés as part of what they called a persistent effort . . . to deceive others.
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Skittles
(172,836 posts)Blue Owl
(59,614 posts)I am literally LOL
dawg day
(7,947 posts)They're all grifters, from top to bottom.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)ever seen or heard of. I think rule #1 for lawyers is vet all sources of testimony.
Arne
(3,609 posts)underpants
(197,169 posts)working with Special Operations.
Yeah I read the whole thing. Everyone is making up fake bios on her....this woman from Minot SD. OOOOOKAY.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)underpants
(197,169 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Even undocumented people that have fake SS numbers stop at one.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(137,373 posts)Gothmog
(181,997 posts)Blue_true
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