Giuliani Adviser Disappears

[gab13by13]

Giuliani adviser, who knew everything, has disappeared off the map. She was involved in everything shady.

Is she a Russian asset or has she been offed?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/giulianis-adviser-who-knew-everything-has-disappeared-report/ar-AA1glQhb

She'd previously worked for lobbyist Charlie Black, who worked with Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. Ironically, she also worked for Sen. Larry Pressler (R-SD), who attacked Trump for his role in Jan. 6, even going so far as to say he "incited an insurrection,” Politico cited.

The first email Politico reviewed to Giuliani was Friess complaining about her restricted access to mail-in ballots being counted in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. She went so far as to sign a declaration about her entitlement to observe, but it never seemed to be included in any legal filing the reporters could locate.

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"In the document, Friess said she was an approved Republican Party observer and spent two hours watching the process at a Pittsburgh canvassing center on the morning of Nov. 3, 2020," the report said. She added that she didn't have a good view of the counting and reviewing.

“I do not believe any of these ballots should be allowed to be part of the final vote tally,” she wrote.

Friess explained that she was a lawyer who ran a national security company. "Public filings indicate the firm, Seven Good Stones, is located in Colorado, which is also where Friess — in one of her only public actions in recent years — sued to block a Jan. 6 select committee subpoena for her phone records," the report said. Both in Washington, D.C. and in Colorado, her law licenses are inactive.

[FalloutShelter]

1. The words... Loose End

Come to mind?

[EYESORE 9001]

2. The phrase 'sleeps with the fishes' comes to mind

Then again, perhaps she got paid to take a nice, permanent vacation under a new name, although I can’t imagine the ghoul paying for something like that. Couldn’t be that cheap for a lifetime of silence. Yeah, she’s probably gone.

[Hortensis]

3. She'd been well established and well regarded, not heavily political, before.

On Dec. 17, 2020, as Trump’s efforts to stay in power suffered a series of court defeats, Friess circulated a draft message to the White House seeking security clearances for a group of people, including Giuliani and Kerik. The message, apparently aimed at the White House chief of staff, referred to an unidentified “project” and a classified “Directive.” ...

Friess sent Kerik another email ... added Conan Hayes, a former professional surfer who worked with Trump’s post-election legal team. Hayes’ involvement has been widely reported but not fully understood; he has ties to Patrick Byrne, the former Overstock.com CEO ...

It’s unclear if the cryptic request for security clearances was ever forwarded to the White House. Nor is it clear what “project” Friess was referring to or why Giuliani’s team felt they needed security clearances — which, if granted, would have given them access to classified materials.

The discussion of security clearances came at the same time that other Trump allies, led by lawyer Sidney Powell, were urging Trump to issue an executive order that would have directed the military or federal agencies to seize voting machines.

She apparently got involved near the end with the extra-crazies tRump gathered when others backed off. She should have been affluent enough to try to take a powder if she chose. Could have been a foreign agent who was withdrawn as it came apart. Suicide -- lots of wilderness to disappear in in CO. I'm inclined to doubt murder among an incompetent group without that history and already destined to hang separately.

[Grins]

5. "...seeking security clearances for...(Bernie) Kerik"

Kerik; a convicted felon. Hard to get any more GOP than that!

[Hortensis]

7. Old, corrupt associate of Giuliani, unindicted coconspirator #5 of The Defendant.

And this woman was trying to get him a security clearance/access to classified info as the attempted coup d'etat heated up.

[AverageOldGuy]

4. Has anyone checked . . .

. . . the bathrooms at Mar-A-Lago?

. . . the area near Ivana's resting place at Bedminster?

. . . surveillance tapes at Bedminster and M-A-L?

. . . NJ trash dumps?

. . . beneath the end zones at Giant stadium?

. . . recent flights by Trump's 757?

[FakeNoose]

6. The Politico article is the source for this story about Katherine Friess and gives a little more info

Politico link: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/06/giuliani-aide-vanished-trump-election-00114307

Here's the segment from Politico that I found interesting:

[MagickMuffin]

9. Thanks for supplying her first name

I did a google search of her and found this tidbit from a locator service. I won’t post any other info other than this.

Has anyone checked on her other identities? It appears she goes by several different names.


Katherine E Friess Katherine Yessin Katherine Freiss Kathy Yessin

[lostnfound]

18. Messy divorce, 2009 sued her ex-husband Yessin for breaking her work email at Global Policy Partners

https://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/08/another-messy-divorce-at-global-policy-partners-.html

2 similar cases at same lobbying firm in same time frme

[randr]

8. Maybe she met the fate of others he has "worked" with

Back when he "cleaned up" NYC there was talk of high building syndrome.

[dalton99a]

10. Kick

[Ford_Prefect]

11. Evaporated, got into the wind, went dark, went in another direction, or gone without

forwarding address. Any or all?

IMO she's too invested in the process to have been disappeared. Wealthy and connected to the inside rail of serious conservative politics (and dark money?) suggests she is not another Jeffrey Clark or Sidney Powell.

Russian asset? Possibly. Roger Stone and Paul Manafort clearly are but also have been more visible.

[Historic NY]

12. She's has a high maintenance lifestyle..

I don't think she is going to give that up. Maybe hidden in witness protection

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. She was involved enough to get a few mentions on DU. And the invoice story is the chef's kiss:

Mar 1, 2022:

The revelation that Trump had spoken repeatedly with Kurt Olsen amid his last-ditch push to overturn the election was included in a new round of subpoenas by the Jan. 6 select committee. The latest batch targeted a grab-bag of prominent Trump allies amid his quest to subvert the 2020 presidential election, as well as some of the more minor players who facilitated key events along the way.

The subpoenas also target Cleta Mitchell, a prominent GOP attorney who joined Trump on a call with Georgia officials in early January 2021. Mitchell is already suing to block a select committee subpoena for her phone records.

The list also includes two targets previously identified by POLITICO: Christina Bobb, a One America News Network anchor, and Katherine Friess, a member of Trump’s post-election legal team. Both appear to have played a role in either drafting or circulating a proposed executive order seizing voting machines.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216423365

Mar 17, 2022:

The publicly available version of the Dominion report, which first surfaced in early December 2020 on the conservative outlet the Gateway Pundit, names on the cover and in metadata as its author Katherine Friess, a volunteer on the Trump post-election legal team.

But the Dominion report was in fact produced by the senior Trump White House policy aide Joanna Miller, according to the original version of the document reviewed by the Guardian and a source familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The original version of the Dominion report named Miller - who worked for the senior Trump adviser Peter Navarro – as the author on the cover page, until her name was abruptly replaced with that of Friess before the document was to be released publicly, the source said.

The involvement of a number of other Trump White House aides who worked in Navarro’s office was also scrubbed around that time, the source said. Friess has told the Daily Beast that she had nothing to do with the report and did not know how her name came to be on the document...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216493669

Dec 22, 2022:

A lawyer who was part of former President Donald Trump’s 2020 legal team may be evading a subpoena in a defamation case against Rudy Giuliani, according to attorneys for two Georgia election workers who sued the former New York City mayor.

Trump lawyer Katherine Friess, with no luck, court papers show. They messaged five email addresses, receiving notice that one email was repeatedly opened but never getting a response. A lawyer who represented Friess in another case wouldn’t accept service on her behalf.

Friess isn’t a defendant in the defamation suit. But election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, want her to turn over documents because they say Giuliani has identified Friess as a principal author of a strategic communications plan to cast doubt on President Joe Biden electoral win in 2020.

Friess is “an important witness in this case, with personal knowledge of the origins of Defendant Giuliani’s lies about Plaintiffs,” Freeman and Moss said in court filings.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217486671

From the Politico article:

On Dec. 26, 2020, she wrote to Kerik: “I am resending my first invoice, as I received a check from Trump for President, Inc., but it was for $905, which is $15,000 short of the full amount. Would be grateful if you could kindly check on that please.”
...
Over the following weeks, Friess sent more emails looking to get paid — both for her work and for hotel and airfare costs she paid out of pocket. But there’s no sign she was ever made whole. Filings with the Federal Election Commission show the Trump campaign paid her firm just $905.

If someone has "national security" links, I'm not surprised they have managed to disappear when convenient. Looks like she gave up the work for Trump as a bad debt, and wanted to start again with no link to a conspiracy.

[struggle4progress]

14. knr

[struggle4progress]

15. Is she pushing up daisies on some golf course? Inquiring minds need to know!

[Kennah]

16. It's an old Sicilian saying

[MorbidButterflyTat]

17. She's co-hosting

Russian news pod casts and talk shows with Maria Butina.