Boom!!!! Judge in Manafort case says Mueller only wants to hurt Trump

[tinydancer]

Really? He was head of the FBI.

PLEASE!

FOR GOODNESS SAKE Tiny,

Mueller did not become the head of the FBI until bush 2 appointed him, in the 2000's.

Now cut out the bull crap and tell the truth....not this MADE UP bull crap of Hannity etc...

Robert Mueller III had NOTHING at all, to do with the Bulgar case or scandal.

How do Sean Hannity’s attempts to link Robert Mueller to ‘Whitey’ Bulger hold up? - The Boston Globe

I went with what Dershowitz was saying. After your post I did more digging. Mueller was appointed 2001.

His involvement in this Bulger mess is actually freaking WORSE than being the head of the FBI.

"Albano was appalled that, later that same year, Mueller was appointed FBI director, because it was Mueller, first as an assistant US attorney then as the acting US attorney in Boston, who wrote letters to the parole and pardons board throughout the 1980s opposing clemency for the four men framed by FBI lies.

Of course, Mueller was also in that position while Whitey Bulger was helping the FBI cart off his criminal competitors even as he buried bodies in shallow graves along the Neponset."

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One lingering question for FBI director Robert Mueller - The Boston Globe

“Before he gets that extension,’’ Mike Albano said, “somebody in the Senate or House needs to ask him why the US Attorney’s office he led let the FBI protect Whitey Bulger.’’

Worse. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay worse.

 

[tinydancer]

looks like the Judge said in the end, IT IS NOT a witch hunt....


A federal judge on Tuesday rejected former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's challenge to the authority of special counsel Robert Mueller.


The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III dashes the hopes of many allies of President Donald Trump's that Ellis would deliver a crippling blow to Mueller's office and undermine the legal legitimacy of his appointment.




During oral arguments last month relating to bank and tax fraud charges against Manafort, Ellis skewered the special prosecutor's team, suggesting they were on a crusade aimed at impeaching Trump.


Judge rejects Manafort's challenge to Mueller's legitimacy

Did you miss the part where the Judge says Mueller's tactics are distasteful? That he's only hammering Manafort to get to Trump again?

that was a month and a half ago, but the judge then reviewed the case, and the defendant's objections, and 5 days ago ruled the court case would continue because the defense did not present a strong case to support their contention...

You need to get up to speed. Ellis slammed Mueller saying even a blind person can see that Mueller is squeezing Manafort to get to Trump.

AND he put this in writing and entered it into the judicial record. Mueller's reputation what little of it he had is shot to hell now.

That's this week. Judge Ellis recognizes Mueller for being the evil son of a bitch that he is.

yes the judge did do that/ say that, and you all hoped the judge would dismiss the case, as Mahafort lawyers requested....

HOWEVER, the judge took 6 weeks to evaluate the case and requests for dismisal,

and decided the manafort lawyers did not present a case, that actually supports the contention, and the court case against Manafort was on solid ground, to continue....and would continue right on schedule...

Oh I want it to continue. Because Ellis will continue to go at Mueller and his team and continue to shame them publicly.

Fine by me.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Mewler ain’t doing so hot. Many first year ADA’s would have already closed this up and had a whole county in prision for ten plus years. Mewler ? Just a clown.

Mueller is a very dangerous clown and protected Whitey Bulger as that gangster killed 16 people in the Boston area.

in case you didn't know,

THAT IS A LIE.....

made up propaganda by your beloved right wing....

Robert Mueller III was never involved with the Whitey Bulgar case.

Really? He was head of the FBI.

Dershowitz argues that “four innocent people were framed by the FBI to protect mass murdering gangsters who were working as FBI informers while they were killing innocent people” during the time Mueller was director of the FBI.


An FBI agent — who’s now in prison — was tipping off Boston gangster Whitey Bulger about who might testify against him, ensuring their slayings, Dershowitz explained; the agent also tipped off Bulger so he could escape and stay on the lam.

“All civil libertarians should want the truth about this sordid episode, and Mueller’s possible role in it, regardless of its impact, if any, on the Trump investigation,” Dershowitz wrote, adding Mueller should welcome the probe too.



Read Newsmax: Dershowitz: Investigate Mueller's Role Protecting FBI Informant | Newsmax.com
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A Robert Mueller or someone else with the FBI and in the Boston FBI office handled the Bulgar case,

not Robert Mueller III.

First, regarding Hannity’s claims about Robert Mueller’s connection to Whitey Bulger: Mueller’s office wasn’t even involved. Mueller served in the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston from 1982 to 1988, but it was the FBI and the New England Organized Crime Strike Force (prosecuting attorneys who worked independently of the U.S. attorney’s office and reported directly to the Department of Justice) that were responsible for the Bulger scandal. The FBI and the Strike Force used Bulger to help them uncover Mafia crimes, all the while not doing a thing about the crimes Bulger himself had committed. Long story short: Mueller could not have been involved with Bulger because he wasn’t even involved with the FBI or the Strike Force.

Fact-checking Claims about Robert Mueller’s FBI Past - Civics Nation

C4A, Mueller most certainly was involved with the Bulgar case.

Probing Mueller: What Were His Roles in Boston Mafia Murders, Uranium One, and Other FBI Scandals?

Whitey Bulger, as The New American detailed back in 1998 (“FBI Covering for Criminals”), was the murderous boss of Boston’s notorious Winter Hill Gang, also known as the “Irish Mafia.” For two decades (1975-1994) Bulger led a charmed existence, as his brutal gang carried out their crime rampage under the FBI’s protection! Time after time, Massachusetts state and local police had their elaborate, years-long investigations of Bulger foiled by FBI interference. FBI Special Agent John Connolly and John Morris, who was in charge of the FBI’s Boston Organized Crime Squad, were Bulger’s protectors and would tip him off to investigations and wiretaps by other police agencies. This corrupt FBI-Bulger relationship was dramatized in Martin Scorcese’s 2006 film, The Departed, starring Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. In 1994, Bulger was tipped off by his FBI handler John Connolly that investigators were closing in on him. He went on the lam and eluded capture for 16 years. He was arrested in California in 2011 and went on trial in 2013, charged with 32 counts of racketeering, including 19 murders. The jury convicted Bulger of 31 of the 32 counts, including 11 of the 19 murders. He was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences plus five years.

While Bulger was on the run, his FBI partners in crime, Connolly and Morris, were arrested and indicted. In 2008 Connolly was convicted for his role in the murders of FBI informant John B. Callahan and Oklahoma businessman Roger Wheeler. Connolly’s supervisor John Morris was allowed to get off by testifying against his underling and longtime co-conspirator. Who gave Morris a “get out of jail free” card, and why? Family members of the FBI-Bulger murder victims were outraged, as were police officials, who had had their painstaking investigations wrecked, their officers and investigators endangered, and their informants killed. Why was Morris being protected, and who above him in the chain of command was being protected? To those who had been following the FBI-Winter Hill Gang activities for years, it was inconceivable that the corrupt relationship could have gone on for so long without the knowledge (and perhaps approval?) of higher-ups in the Bureau and the Department of Justice. Why might FBI/DOJ higher-ups approve? Because while Bulger was using them for protection against prosecution, they were using him for information to arrest and prosecute other mobsters, which gave them media headlines and political kudos. In short, Bulger gave the FBI/DOJ plenty of feathers for their caps, while they wiped out his competition.

In her March 20 blog post. Sarah Carter links to a noteworthy 2011 article by Boston Globecolumnist Kevin Cullen entitled, “A lingering question for the FBI Director.” The FBI Director Cullen was referring to was then-Director Robert Mueller, who had previously been one of the DOJ attorneys tasked with overseeing the FBI-Bulger criminal operation. The Cullen article introduces readers to objections raised against Mueller by Mike Albano, a former member of the Massachusetts parole board and the former mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts. He was objecting at the time to the reappointment of Mueller as FBI chief.

While on the parole board, Albano had become convinced that the FBI and DOJ had framed four men with bogus evidence for the 1965 gangland murder of a Boston hoodlum named Teddy Deegan. Albano decided to vote in favor of parole for Peter Limone, one of the four. “So in 1983, after Albano indicated he might vote to release Limone, he got a visit from a pair of FBI agents named John Connolly and John Morris,” Cullen reported. “They told Albano that the men convicted of Deegan’s murder were bad guys, made guys. ‘They told me that if I wanted to stay in public life, I shouldn’t vote to release a guy like Limone,’ Albano said. ‘They intimidated me.’’’

The FBI and DOJ framed the four scapegoats, who were then sent to prison for the Deegan murder to protect Bulger, his henchman Steve “The Rifleman” Flemmi, and Flemmi’s brother, Vincent “Jimmy” Flemmi. “After Albano was elected mayor of Springfield in 1995, he soon found the FBI hot on his tail, investigating his administration for corruption,” Cullen noted. “The FBI took down several people in his administration, and Albano is convinced that the FBI wasn’t interested in public integrity as much as in publicly humiliating him because he dared to defy them.”

In 2001, Albano was vindicated. The four men who had been wrongly convicted in the Deegan murder were exonerated. Two of them had already died in prison. As a result of this shocking government malfeasance, the two surviving victims and the families of the deceased were awarded compensation of $100 million — courtesy of the taxpayers.

“Albano was appalled that, later that same year, Mueller was appointed FBI director, because it was Mueller, first as an assistant U.S. attorney then as the acting U.S. attorney in Boston, who wrote letters to the parole and pardon boards throughout the 1980s opposing clemency for the four men framed by FBI lies,” writes the Boston Globe’s Cullen. “Of course, Mueller was also in that position while Whitey Bulger was helping the FBI cart off his criminal competitors even as he buried bodies in shallow graves along the Neponset.”

 

[JimBowie1958]

Mewler ain’t doing so hot. Many first year ADA’s would have already closed this up and had a whole county in prision for ten plus years. Mewler ? Just a clown.

Mueller is a very dangerous clown and protected Whitey Bulger as that gangster killed 16 people in the Boston area.

in case you didn't know,

THAT IS A LIE.....

made up propaganda by your beloved right wing....

Robert Mueller III was never involved with the Whitey Bulgar case.

Really? He was head of the FBI.

Dershowitz argues that “four innocent people were framed by the FBI to protect mass murdering gangsters who were working as FBI informers while they were killing innocent people” during the time Mueller was director of the FBI.


An FBI agent — who’s now in prison — was tipping off Boston gangster Whitey Bulger about who might testify against him, ensuring their slayings, Dershowitz explained; the agent also tipped off Bulger so he could escape and stay on the lam.

“All civil libertarians should want the truth about this sordid episode, and Mueller’s possible role in it, regardless of its impact, if any, on the Trump investigation,” Dershowitz wrote, adding Mueller should welcome the probe too.



Read Newsmax: Dershowitz: Investigate Mueller's Role Protecting FBI Informant | Newsmax.com
Urgent: Do you approve of Pres. Trump? Vote Here in Poll

A Robert Mueller or someone else with the FBI and in the Boston FBI office handled the Bulgar case,

not Robert Mueller III.

First, regarding Hannity’s claims about Robert Mueller’s connection to Whitey Bulger: Mueller’s office wasn’t even involved. Mueller served in the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston from 1982 to 1988, but it was the FBI and the New England Organized Crime Strike Force (prosecuting attorneys who worked independently of the U.S. attorney’s office and reported directly to the Department of Justice) that were responsible for the Bulger scandal. The FBI and the Strike Force used Bulger to help them uncover Mafia crimes, all the while not doing a thing about the crimes Bulger himself had committed. Long story short: Mueller could not have been involved with Bulger because he wasn’t even involved with the FBI or the Strike Force.

Fact-checking Claims about Robert Mueller’s FBI Past - Civics Nation

C4A, Mueller most certainly was involved with the Bulgar case.

I'm getting shades of Poe's law. I honestly don't know if you're actually this deluded, or just trolling.

Trolling in regards to what?

That Mueller:

1. Threatens people with a stack of charges if they dont confess to one or two smaller ones? Standard prosecutorial abuse these days.

2. Blackmail? Yeah, how do you think he was able to keep everyone in five states and the Federal government off of Bulger?

3. Killings? Show me how that is not within plausibility as he COVERED FOR A KNOWN MURDERER AS HE COMMITTED 16 MORE KILLINGS?

No, Robert Mueller And James Comey Aren't Heroes | HuffPost

Long before he became FBI Director, serious questions existed about Mueller’s role as Acting U.S. Attorney in Boston in effectively enabling decades of corruption and covering up of the FBI’s illicit deals with mobster Whitey Bulger and other “top echelon” informants who committed numerous murders and crimes. When the truth was finally uncovered through intrepid investigative reporting and persistent, honest judges, U.S. taxpayers footed a $100 million court award to the four men framed for murders committed by (the FBI operated) Bulger gang.


Trial Ending for Boston F.B.I. Agent Accused of Mob Ties
''John Connolly knew what his obligations were'' in limiting his personal ties to his organized crime informants, said the prosecutor, John Durham, an assistant United States Attorney. ''But he was on somebody else's team.''

Mr. Connolly, 61, is accused of leaking information to his own informants that resulted in the killing of three witnesses, of taking bribes and of tipping off James (Whitey) Bulger, the head of a powerful crime family in Boston, about a secret 1994 federal indictment against him that enabled him to flee. The accusations were spelled out in 10 days of testimony by a parade of convicted organized-crime figures, an extortion victim, federal judges and Mr. Connolly's secretaries. The jury is to begin deliberations on Friday.

The trial has raised questions about the F.B.I.'s close connections to the informants it has used in battling the Mafia, a policy begun under J. Edgar Hoover. At least two other F.B.I. agents also took bribes from Mr. Bulger, according to testimony, and the deputy head of the bureau's Boston office was named by one gangster as the source of Mr. Connolly's tip that Mr. Bulger was about to be indicted.


One lingering question for FBI director Robert Mueller - The Boston Globe
Back in the 1980s, when he was serving on the Massachusetts parole board, Albano expressed some sympathy for a group of men who had always maintained they had been framed for the 1965 gangland murder of a hoodlum named Teddy Deegan in Chelsea. The FBI had been instrumental in seeing that the men - Peter Limone, Henry Tameleo, Joe Salvati, and Louis Greco - were convicted. The FBI contended that Tameleo was the consigliere of the Mafia in Boston, and that Limone was a Mafia leader. There is no question that both men were bad actors, and Mafia players, but the evidence showed that neither had anything to do Deegan’s murder.

So in 1983, after Albano indicated he might vote to release Limone, he got a visit from a pair of FBI agents named John Connolly and John Morris. They told Albano that the men convicted of Deegan’s murder were bad guys, made guys.

“They told me that if I wanted to stay in public life, I shouldn’t vote to release a guy like Limone,’’ Albano said. “They intimidated me.’’

Turns out that Connolly was Whitey Bulger’s corrupt handler and Morris was Connolly’s corrupt supervisor. When they weren’t pocketing bribes from Bulger, they were helping him murder potential witnesses who were poised to expose the FBI’s sordid, Faustian deal with the rat named Whitey Bulger.

Probing Mueller: What Were His Roles in Boston Mafia Murders, Uranium One, and Other FBI Scandals?
Whitey Bulger, as The New American detailed back in 1998 (“FBI Covering for Criminals”), was the murderous boss of Boston’s notorious Winter Hill Gang, also known as the “Irish Mafia.” For two decades (1975-1994) Bulger led a charmed existence, as his brutal gang carried out their crime rampage under the FBI’s protection! Time after time, Massachusetts state and local police had their elaborate, years-long investigations of Bulger foiled by FBI interference. FBI Special Agent John Connolly and John Morris, who was in charge of the FBI’s Boston Organized Crime Squad, were Bulger’s protectors and would tip him off to investigations and wiretaps by other police agencies. This corrupt FBI-Bulger relationship was dramatized in Martin Scorcese’s 2006 film, The Departed, starring Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. In 1994, Bulger was tipped off by his FBI handler John Connolly that investigators were closing in on him. He went on the lam and eluded capture for 16 years. He was arrested in California in 2011 and went on trial in 2013, charged with 32 counts of racketeering, including 19 murders. The jury convicted Bulger of 31 of the 32 counts, including 11 of the 19 murders. He was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences plus five years.

While Bulger was on the run, his FBI partners in crime, Connolly and Morris, were arrested and indicted. In 2008 Connolly was convicted for his role in the murders of FBI informant John B. Callahan and Oklahoma businessman Roger Wheeler. Connolly’s supervisor John Morris was allowed to get off by testifying against his underling and longtime co-conspirator. Who gave Morris a “get out of jail free” card, and why? Family members of the FBI-Bulger murder victims were outraged, as were police officials, who had had their painstaking investigations wrecked, their officers and investigators endangered, and their informants killed. Why was Morris being protected, and who above him in the chain of command was being protected? To those who had been following the FBI-Winter Hill Gang activities for years, it was inconceivable that the corrupt relationship could have gone on for so long without the knowledge (and perhaps approval?) of higher-ups in the Bureau and the Department of Justice. Why might FBI/DOJ higher-ups approve? Because while Bulger was using them for protection against prosecution, they were using him for information to arrest and prosecute other mobsters, which gave them media headlines and political kudos. In short, Bulger gave the FBI/DOJ plenty of feathers for their caps, while they wiped out his competition.

In her March 20 blog post. Sarah Carter links to a noteworthy 2011 article by Boston Globecolumnist Kevin Cullen entitled, “A lingering question for the FBI Director.” The FBI Director Cullen was referring to was then-Director Robert Mueller, who had previously been one of the DOJ attorneys tasked with overseeing the FBI-Bulger criminal operation. The Cullen article introduces readers to objections raised against Mueller by Mike Albano, a former member of the Massachusetts parole board and the former mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts. He was objecting at the time to the reappointment of Mueller as FBI chief.

While on the parole board, Albano had become convinced that the FBI and DOJ had framed four men with bogus evidence for the 1965 gangland murder of a Boston hoodlum named Teddy Deegan. Albano decided to vote in favor of parole for Peter Limone, one of the four. “So in 1983, after Albano indicated he might vote to release Limone, he got a visit from a pair of FBI agents named John Connolly and John Morris,” Cullen reported. “They told Albano that the men convicted of Deegan’s murder were bad guys, made guys. ‘They told me that if I wanted to stay in public life, I shouldn’t vote to release a guy like Limone,’ Albano said. ‘They intimidated me.’’’

The FBI and DOJ framed the four scapegoats, who were then sent to prison for the Deegan murder to protect Bulger, his henchman Steve “The Rifleman” Flemmi, and Flemmi’s brother, Vincent “Jimmy” Flemmi. “After Albano was elected mayor of Springfield in 1995, he soon found the FBI hot on his tail, investigating his administration for corruption,” Cullen noted. “The FBI took down several people in his administration, and Albano is convinced that the FBI wasn’t interested in public integrity as much as in publicly humiliating him because he dared to defy them.”

In 2001, Albano was vindicated. The four men who had been wrongly convicted in the Deegan murder were exonerated. Two of them had already died in prison. As a result of this shocking government malfeasance, the two surviving victims and the families of the deceased were awarded compensation of $100 million — courtesy of the taxpayers.

“Albano was appalled that, later that same year, Mueller was appointed FBI director, because it was Mueller, first as an assistant U.S. attorney then as the acting U.S. attorney in Boston, who wrote letters to the parole and pardon boards throughout the 1980s opposing clemency for the four men framed by FBI lies,” writes the Boston Globe’s Cullen. “Of course, Mueller was also in that position while Whitey Bulger was helping the FBI cart off his criminal competitors even as he buried bodies in shallow graves along the Neponset.”

Unfortunately, members of Congress from both sides of the aisle were too busy singing Mueller’s praises — from the sheet music provided by the FBI-DOJ scriptwriters and their Deep State media allies — to listen to Mayor Albano’s warnings. Why have Mueller and the other top DOJ/FBI officials implicated in the long-running FBI-Winter Hill Mob conspiracy not been questioned or held to account?

For posterity

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

That's rich. I'm not the one being led around by the nose by the media.

Of course you are . Literally every word you post on this topic is spoonfeed directly from strategists to bloggers and fox and then to you. And never before they receive them and feed them to you

 

[mudwhistle]

That's rich. I'm not the one being led around by the nose by the media.

Of course you are . Literally every word you post on this topic is spoonfeed directly from strategists to bloggers and fox and then to you. And never before they receive them and feed them to you

And again you project your acts onto me.

My thoughts are my own.
Your's are fed to you by a corrupt media.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

And again you project your acts onto me.

My thoughts are my own.

Hmm...no. Every word is a talking point constructed by a strategist, them ffed to you. That is why you and your clones always come armed with the same ones at the same time. That is why you spot on Mueller and lick Trump's boots, using all of the same , boilerplate bumper stickers.