knapplc Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Step aside, Mueller. There's a new investigation in town. Quote House Judiciary launches sweeping Trump probe The House Judiciary Committee launched on Monday a sweeping investigation of President Trump and his inner circle that will focus on 3 broad spheres of interest: allegations of obstruction of justice, public corruption, and other abuses of power. The panel sent document requests to 81 individuals and entities related to the president and allegations of possible misconduct, giving them a deadline of March 18 to respond. The president's business, charity, campaign, inaugural committee and family are among those to receive document requests. The full list: (it's 81 people so condensed) Spoiler Alan Garten Alexander Nix Allen Weisselberg American Media Inc Anatoli Samochornov Andrew Intrater Annie Donaldson Brad Parscale Brittany Kaiser Cambridge Analytica Carter Page Columbus Nova Concord Management and Consulting Corey Lewandowski David Pecker Department of Justice Don McGahn Donald J Trump Revocable Trust Donald Trump Jr. Dylan Howard Eric Trump Erik Prince Federal Bureau of Investigation Felix Sater Flynn Intel Group General Services Administration George Nader George Papadopoulos Hope Hicks Irakly Kaveladze Jared Kushner Jason Maloni Jay Sekulow Jeff Sessions Jerome Corsi John Szobocsan Julian Assange Julian David Wheatland Keith Davidson KT McFarland Mark Corallo Matt Tait Matthew Calamari Michael Caputo Michael Cohen Michael Flynn Michael Flynn Jr Paul Erickson Paul Manafort Peter Smith (Estate) Randy Credico Reince Priebus Rhona Graff Rinat Akhmetshin Rob Goldstone Roger Stone Ronald Lieberman Sam Nunberg SCL Group Limited Sean Spicer Sheri Dillon Stefan Passantino Steve Bannon Ted Malloch The White House Trump Campaign Trump Foundation Trump Organization Trump Transition Viktor Vekselberg Wikileaks 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee Christopher Bancroft Burnham Frontier Services Group J.D. Gordon Kushner Companies NRA Rick Gates Tom Barrack Tom Bossert Tony Fabrizio 1 1 Link to comment
Fru Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 "The panel sent document requests to 81 individuals and entities related to the president and allegations of possible misconduct, giving them a deadline of March 18 to respond." What happens if they don't respond? Link to comment
Moiraine Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 12 minutes ago, Fru said: "The panel sent document requests to 81 individuals and entities related to the president and allegations of possible misconduct, giving them a deadline of March 18 to respond." What happens if they don't respond? That’s what I’m wondering. If they don’t, the GOP will be ok with it and do nothing. It won’t move the needle for any Republican voters which might signal to them they can also ignore election results if Trump loses. Just a thought. 2 Link to comment
Ulty Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 22 minutes ago, Fru said: "The panel sent document requests to 81 individuals and entities related to the president and allegations of possible misconduct, giving them a deadline of March 18 to respond." What happens if they don't respond? Looking at that list, there will likely be a great many who do not respond. Link to comment
Ulty Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Also: 27 minutes ago, knapplc said: 15. David Pecker 6 Link to comment
knapplc Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 49 minutes ago, knapplc said: Irakly Kaveladze Jared Kushner Interestingly, this is the spot where one would expect to see Ivanka's name. But she's not listed. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 38 minutes ago, knapplc said: Interestingly, this is the spot where one would expect to see Ivanka's name. But she's not listed. I wonder if there's some legal limitation on calling family members to testify against another family member. Jared isn't a blood relative. Link to comment
Ulty Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 7 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said: I wonder if there's some legal limitation on calling family members to testify against another family member. Jared isn't a blood relative. I don't know about that, but the names and requests mentioned in the article only mention document requests, not testimony (not yet, anyway). These requests are not subpoenas, so I wonder if there is any penalty for not responding, or how much authority these requests actually carry. I suppose if these documents were critical, they could be subpoena'd (I don't know the past tense of subpoena), but I don't know what kind of power this committee has, or how much they are able to overlap with other ongoing investigations. Some of the folks on this list (Roger Stone, Michael Cohen, for example) have already either been arrested, indicted, convicted, etc, and the requested documents may be sealed up as part of Mueller's evidence. I'm interested to see what this new inquiry expects to uncover and if they will actually get enough of a response to go anywhere with it. Link to comment
RedDenver Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 9 minutes ago, Ulty said: I don't know about that, but the names and requests mentioned in the article only mention document requests, not testimony (not yet, anyway). These requests are not subpoenas, so I wonder if there is any penalty for not responding, or how much authority these requests actually carry. I suppose if these documents were critical, they could be subpoena'd (I don't know the past tense of subpoena), but I don't know what kind of power this committee has, or how much they are able to overlap with other ongoing investigations. Some of the folks on this list (Roger Stone, Michael Cohen, for example) have already either been arrested, indicted, convicted, etc, and the requested documents may be sealed up as part of Mueller's evidence. I'm interested to see what this new inquiry expects to uncover and if they will actually get enough of a response to go anywhere with it. The committee also has the power of politics and the media. Anyone who doesn't respond could simply be outed as having failed to respond and let the media and the public reaction put pressure on them. Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Bad day for Trump. United front here. Link to comment
Decoy73 Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 1 hour ago, Fru said: "The panel sent document requests to 81 individuals and entities related to the president and allegations of possible misconduct, giving them a deadline of March 18 to respond." What happens if they don't respond? I would imagine they would likely be grilled as to why they didn’t respond if they were to eventually get subpoenaed to testify. Their lack of response could also be used to bolster future obstruction of justice charges if they were deemed less than cooperative down the road. 2 Link to comment
Ulty Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Just now, RedDenver said: The committee also has the power of politics and the media. Anyone who doesn't respond could simply be outed as having failed to respond and let the media and the public reaction put pressure on them. Good point, but many of the names on the list might be immune to such public pressure, especially if that pressure is only coming from the left. It could be viewed as nothing but a political stunt by the right. But at the same time it is good to see congress doing something, rather than nothing. The more pressure, no matter what form it comes in, they can apply to the Trump administration, the better. Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 This isn't good for AMI, who's on that list. They entered into a non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors in which they agreed to clean their act up. This is NOT cleaning their act up. From what I heard, the Enquirer did this as a favor to Trump because he hates Bezos. If they have receipts AMI is screwed. That agreement is going bye bye. Link to comment
knapplc Posted March 5, 2019 Author Share Posted March 5, 2019 The post below this one will accurately describe the last two years with Trump. 2 Link to comment
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