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coeur_de_lion

(3,684 posts) Tue Feb 20, 2018, 11:00 AM Feb 2018

Mueller charges lawyer with lying about interaction with Rick Gates

[link:https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/20/politics/robert-mueller-rick-gates/index.html|
Special counsel Robert Mueller has filed a charge against a lawyer for lying to investigators about his interaction with former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates in September 2016.

Alex Van Der Zwaan is expected to plead guilty Tuesday afternoon. The filing is further evidence of Mueller's investigation of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Gates and their work for Russian-allied clients.

He is also accused of lying about the failure to turn over an email communication to the special counsel's office. He was speaking with investigators about his work with Skadden Arps in 2012 when the firm did work for the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice to prepare a report on the trial of Yulia Tymoshenko.

Van Der Zwaan has a plea hearing scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at US District Court in Washington, DC.

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Mueller charges lawyer with lying about interaction with Rick Gates (Original Post) coeur_de_lion Feb 2018 OP

WaPo article BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #1

Ha ha. Van Der Zwaan is the SON-IN-LAW of the Russian Oligarch owner of Alfa Bank. Turn CO Blue Feb 2018 #2

BumRushDaShow

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1. WaPo article

Reply to coeur_de_lion (Original post)

Tue Feb 20, 2018, 11:05 AM

Feb 2018

(from my post in LBN thread) -

Mueller probe: London-based son of Russian businessman to plead guilty to false statements

By Spencer S. Hsu February 20 at 9:52 AM

The London-based son of a Russian businessman is set to plead guilty Tuesday afternoon in Washington to making false statements in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to a new court filing.

Alex Van Der Zwaan was charged with one count of making false statements, a felony, about his work as an attorney employed by a law firm engaged in 2012 by the Ukraine Ministry of Justice to prepare a report on the trial of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Tymoshenko was imprisoned by former president Viktor Yanukovych for signing in 2009 a controversial gas supply deal with Russia.

U.S. prosecutors in Mueller’s office said the case was related to former Trump 2016 presidential campaign manager Paul Manafort, who was an adviser to Yanukovych.

Manafort and his longtime employee, Rick Gates, have pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, fraud and money laundering charges arising from the allegedly secret lobbying work for a Russian-friendly political party in Ukraine.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/mueller-probe-london-based-son-of-russian-businessman-to-plead-guilty-to-false-statements/2018/02/20/142f4d2e-164b-11e8-b681-2d4d462a1921_story.html

As a note about the above - I believe Gates is working the plea deal.

Turn CO Blue

(4,221 posts)

2. Ha ha. Van Der Zwaan is the SON-IN-LAW of the Russian Oligarch owner of Alfa Bank.