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In April 2018 a [[criminal]] referral was made for former Obama era [[Attorney General]] [[Loretta Lynch]] who threatened an FBI informant who tried to come forward with information in 2016.
==Russia Reset==
President [[Barack Obama]] and Secretary of State [[Hillary Clinton]] cozied up to Putin, charging the Bush administration was intent on reigniting the [[Cold War]]. [[Michael McFaul]] was the architect of the Obama/Clinton “Russian Reset”, that eventually led McFaul to becoming the Ambassador to Russia.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/world/europe/29envoy.html</ref> The Rosatom-Uranium One deal allowed the [[Clinton Foundation]] to pocket millions of dollars from Putin cronies in donations and speaking fees.
==Rosatom==
===Robert Mueller===
According to court filings in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, in 2009, the [[FBI]] began an investigation into corruption and extortion by senior managers of Tenex, a subsidiary of Rosatom, a Russian entity.<ref>Government’s Response to Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss for Pre-Indictment Delay, United States v. Vadim Mikerin, Criminal No. TDC-14-0529 (D. MD) at 1. http://fcpa.stanford.edu/enforcement-action.html?id=583</ref> [[Robert Mueller]] was Director when the FBI the investigation into the Rosatom subsidiary was undertaken.<ref>http://www.newsweek.com/how-robert-mueller-connected-probe-hillary-clintons-uranium-one-deal-688548</ref>
The investigation was an intelligence probe into Russian nuclear officials. Mueller's investigation obtained an eyewitness, William Campbell, known as Confidential Source-1 (CS-1) in documents, recordings, and emails. The evidence indicates Russian nuclear officials sent millions of dollars destined for the [[Clinton Foundation]] during [[Secretary of State]] [[Hillary Clinton]]'s tenure on the Committee on Foreign Investment of the United States (CFIUS). CFIUS is the government body that provided the approval of the sale of Uranium One to Rosatom.<ref>https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/355749-fbi-uncovered-russian-bribery-plot-before-obama-administration</ref><ref>CFIUS is an inter-agency committee authorized to review transactions that could result in control of a U.S. business by a foreign person (“covered transactions”), in order to determine the effect of such transactions on the national security of the United States. CFIUS operates pursuant to section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended by the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 (FINSA) (section 721) and as implemented by Executive Order 11858, as amended, and regulations at 31 C.F.R. Part 800. https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/international/Pages/Committee-on-Foreign-Investment-in-US.aspx</ref> Robert Mueller also was on the committee.
During the investigation, federal agents attempted to turn Vadim Mikerin on his bosses by showing him the evidence the FBI collected of relationships between “shell companies and other Russian energy officials, including President [[Vladimir Putin]].” Mikerin refused and was arrested on charges of conspiracy to [[extort]] kickbacks for contracts to transport uranium from dismantled Russian warheads to power plants within the United States.<ref>Joel Schectman, U.S. sentences Russian nuclear official to four years for bribe scheme, Reuters (Dec. 15, 2015). The “Megatons to Megawatts” program converted uranium from thousands of Russian nuclear warheads for civilian use in U.S.nuclear power plants.</ref> The investigation found kickbacks paid in cash and foreign wire transfers. From April 2009 to April 2011, the wire transfers went to Wiser Trading, registered in the Seychelles. From July 2011 to July 2013 - to the British Leila Global Limited account in a Latvian bank. And from August 2013 to May 2014 - to Ollins Development in the British Virgin Islands.
On October 17, 2017 ''The Hill'' reported that
{{Quotebox|the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks[[kickback]]s, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States, according to government documents and interviews.
Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show.
Indeed, in December 2005, Mr. Nazarbayev won another election, which the security organization itself said was marred by an "atmosphere of intimidation" and "ballot-box stuffing."
After Mr. Nazarbayev won with 91 percent of the vote, Mr. Clinton sent his congratulations. "Recognizing that your work has received an excellent grade is one of the most important rewards in life," Mr. Clinton wrote in a letter released by the Kazakh embassy. Last September, just weeks after Kazakhstan held an election that once again failed to meet international standards, Mr. Clinton honored Mr. Nazarbayev by inviting him to his annual philanthropic conference.</ref> As of 2015, Kazakhstan has never held an election meeting international standards. Mifsud however certified that the ]].elections met all the norms and standards of the [[European Union]].<ref>https://www.inform.kz/en/elections-in-kazakhstan-meet-all-eu-standards-joseph-mifsud_a2769945</ref>
Within two days, Giustra's company, UrAsia Energy, signed a deal giving it stakes in three uranium mines controlled by the Kazakhstan's state-run uranium agency, Kazatomprom. The deal stunned the mining industry, turning an unknown shell company formed in Vancouver in late 2004 into one of the world's largest uranium producers in a transaction ultimately worth tens of millions of dollars to Giustra. Giustra and his partners thereafter contributed tens of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation.<ref>Records show that Mr. Giustra donated the $31.3 million to the Clinton Foundation in the months that followed in 2006, but neither he nor a spokesman for Mr. Clinton would say exactly when. In September 2006, Giustra co-produced a gala 60th birthday for Bill Clinton raised about $21 million for the Clinton Foundation. Giustra held a fundraiser for the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative, to which he had pledged $100 million.</ref>
After Russia took control of the Uranium, the Podesta Group received $180,000 to lobby for Uranium One during the same period that the Clinton Foundation was receiving millions from U1 interests, and after Russia took majority ownership in the “20 percent” deal (source – you have to add up the years).<ref>http://theduran.com/robert-mueller-looks-to-take-down-john-and-tony-podesta/</ref><ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientlbs.php?id=D000065156&year=2015</ref> The uranium company states on its web site it is a “wholly owned subsidiary” of RUSANO, the Russian State Corporation for Nuclear Energy, a Rosatom entity.
[[Tony Podesta]]'s lobbying firm, the Podesta Group, represented the Russian-owned company Uranium One during former President Barack Obama's administration and did not register under the [[Foreign Agents Registration Act]], The Daily Caller News Foundation has determined.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/11/05/tony-podesta-lobbied-for-russias-uranium-one-and-did-not-file-as-a-foreign-agent/?utm_source=site-share</ref>
The Podesta Group lobbied on behalf of Uranium One for part of 2012 and in 2014 and 2015, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The Podesta Group was not listed as a lobbyist for Uranium One during its sale to ROSATOM in 2010. The Podesta Group did not file under FARA during any of the years when it lobbied both Congress and the executive branch.
==Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS)==
Between August 28 and September 3, 2015 an FBI agent sent notification to preserve records to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; [[United States Department of the Treasury|U.S. Dept. of Treasury]]; Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI [[James Clapper]]); National Counter Terrorism Center; and the [[United States Department of Energy|U.S. Department of Energy]] (DoE),<ref>[https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2015%20of%2015/view Hillary Clinton emails, FBI Vault, Part 15, page 7.]</ref> the [[National Security Agency]] (NSA – [[Admiral Mike Rogers]]) the [[United States Secret Service]] (USSS);<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/katica-foia-2.jpg</ref> the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the Department of Defense in relation to Hillary Clinton email scandal.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/katica-foia-3.jpg</ref><ref>
https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/katica-foia-4.jpg</ref> All these are member agencies of the [[Committee on Foreign Investment ]] (CFIUS) necessary to approve the Uranium One deal. During these notifications on August 31 Vadim Mikerin was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge.<ref>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/russian-nuclear-energy-official-pleads-guilty-money-laundering-conspiracy-involving</ref>
==FBI approval==
==Obama administration approval of sale==
[[Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ]] (CFIUS) is composed of the leaders of 14 US government agencies involved in [[national security]] and commerce. In 2010, these included Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and [[Attorney General]] [[Eric Holder]], whose [[Justice Department]] and lead agency, the FBI, were conducting the investigation of Rosatom's ongoing U.S. racketeering, extortion, and money-laundering scheme.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/22/senate-probe-investigating-whether-robert-mueller-alerted-obama-administration-russian-bribery-scheme/</ref>
Four senior House national security xperts experts — [[Peter King]] (R., N.Y.), [[Ileana Ros-Lehtinen]] (R., Fla.), [[Spencer Bachus]] (R., Ala.), and Howard McKeon (R. Calif.) — voiced grave concerns, pointing out that Rosatom had helped Iran build its Bushehr nuclear reactor. The members concluded that “the take-over of essential US nuclear resources by a government-owned Russian agency . . . would not advance the [[national security]] interests of the United States.” Republican senator [[John Barrasso]] objected to [[Kremlin]] control of uranium assets in his state of [[Wyoming]], warning of Russia's “disturbing record of supporting nuclear programs in countries that are openly hostile to the United States, specifically [[Iran]] and [[Venezuela]].”
On October 22, 2010 CFIUS certified to Congress the sale of Uranium One to Rosatom of the Russian Federation.<ref>CFIUS Certification to Congress, Case 10-40: Rosatom (Russian Federation)/Uranium One, Inc, (October 22, 2010).</ref> No disclosure of Russian racketeering and strong-arm tactics was made to Congress — not by Secretary Clinton, Attorney General Holder, or President Obama.
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