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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,234 posts)
Sun Oct 20, 2019, 11:42 PM Oct 2019

Justice Department Distances Itself From Giuliani

The Justice Department distanced itself on Sunday from Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, declaring that department officials would not have met with Mr. Giuliani to discuss one of his clients had they known that federal prosecutors in New York were investigating two of his associates.

Several weeks ago, Brian A. Benczkowski, the head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and lawyers from the division’s Fraud Section met with Mr. Giuliani to discuss a bribery case in which he and other attorneys were representing the defendants.

That meeting took place before the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan publicly charged the two Giuliani associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, with breaking campaign finance laws and trying to unlawfully influence politicians, including former Representative Pete Sessions, Republican of Texas. Mr. Parnas and Mr. Fruman were part of Mr. Giuliani’s effort to push Ukraine for an inquiry into Democrats.

“When Mr. Benczkowski and fraud section lawyers met with Mr. Giuliani, they were not aware of any investigation of Mr. Giuliani’s associates in the Southern District of New York and would not have met with him had they known,” said Peter Carr, a department spokesman.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/justice-department-distances-itself-from-giuliani/ar-AAJ4UcI?li=BBnb7Kz

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Justice Department Distances Itself From Giuliani (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2019 OP
Too late, Red Don sent Barr the DOJ AG and Guiliani to get dirt on Trumps political opponent uponit7771 Oct 2019 #1
"We've never even heard of Rudy! His name has been mentioned to us only two or three times, struggle4progress Oct 2019 #2
we still have a "Justice" Department? Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2019 #3
+1, uponit7771 Oct 2019 #4

struggle4progress

(118,356 posts)
2. "We've never even heard of Rudy! His name has been mentioned to us only two or three times,
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 12:29 AM
Oct 2019

and we've certainly never ever met him. Anyway, we only met him for a few minutes in passing, and we hardly spoke. I'm sure it wasn't for more than a few hours on two or three occasions. It might have been at breakfast after he spent the night when we were having our very brief affair. The lights were out most of the time, so I might not recognize him if I saw him again"

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