Special Counsel Mueller Issued Subpoena for Russia-Related Documents From Trump Campaign Officials
Source: Wall Street Journal
Senate committee also pressures Kushner lawyer to turn over more documents
By Rebecca Ballhaus and
Peter Nicholas
Nov. 16, 2017 6:40 p.m. ET
Special counsel Robert Muellers team in mid-October issued a subpoena to President Donald Trumps campaign requesting Russia-related documents from more than a dozen top officials, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The subpoena, which requested documents and emails from the listed campaign officials that reference a set of Russia-related keywords, marked Mr. Muellers first official order for information from the campaign, according to the person. The subpoena didnt compel any officials to testify before Mr. Muellers grand jury, the person said.
The subpoena caught the campaign by surprise, the person said. The campaign had previously been voluntarily complying with the special counsels requests for information, and had been sharing with Mr. Muellers team the documents it provided to congressional committees as part of their probes of Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election.
The Trump campaign is providing documents in response to the subpoena on an ongoing basis, the person said.
Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/special-counsel-mueller-issued-subpoena-for-russia-related-documents-from-trump-campaign-officials-1510875492?mod=e2tw
BigmanPigman
(51,583 posts)when they had been copperating in the past? Sounds fishy to me.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)It's not illegal not to provide something, unless there's a subpoena. They thought that by cooperating, they could avoid a subpoena.
No way.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Not everyone withheld the same docs, and their deceit was discovered!
wishstar
(5,268 posts)Finally it was made public today by the Senate investigators that they caught Kushner red- handed - selectively leaving out the most damning and significant emails from Senate when he and his lawyers claimed to be fully cooperating voluntarily.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)This will be chapter 4 in whoever writes the first book on these assholes
Lochloosa
(16,062 posts)CatWoman
(79,294 posts)FakeNoose
(32,620 posts)... behind the paywall.