02-20-2018, 05:38 PM
Mueller's not fucking around.
Today, he secured his third guilty plea in the investigation (and Rick Gates is expected to become number four very soon).
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^ Alex van der Zwaan pleaded guilty at federal court in Washington D.C. in a plea deal with the special counsel.
The 33-year-old becomes the third to be convicted as a result of the Mueller investigation, coming after President Donald Trump's disgraced national security adviser Mike Flynn and campaign adviser George Papadopolous both cut deals with the special counsel.
Van der Zwaan is a Dutch citizen and London-based lawyer whose father-in-law, German Khan, is named in the dossier on Trump which was drawn up by British spy Christopher Steele.
Van der Zwaan's law firm assisted in efforts on behalf of Ukrainian former president Viktor Yanukovych - the Putin ally forced from office in the country's 'orange revolution'.
He worked as an associate for the law firm Skadden, Arps, Meagher, & Flom LLP on behalf of the project and admits to lying to Mueller's investigators about his communications with Gates and withholding evidence.
Charging documents show that he surreptitiously recorded Gates but lied to the FBI about it.
He also made false statements about his conversations with someone identified as 'Person A' who was on the call with him and Gates.
Refs:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/...ller-probe
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-plea.html
Today, he secured his third guilty plea in the investigation (and Rick Gates is expected to become number four very soon).
^ Alex van der Zwaan pleaded guilty at federal court in Washington D.C. in a plea deal with the special counsel.
The 33-year-old becomes the third to be convicted as a result of the Mueller investigation, coming after President Donald Trump's disgraced national security adviser Mike Flynn and campaign adviser George Papadopolous both cut deals with the special counsel.
Van der Zwaan is a Dutch citizen and London-based lawyer whose father-in-law, German Khan, is named in the dossier on Trump which was drawn up by British spy Christopher Steele.
Van der Zwaan's law firm assisted in efforts on behalf of Ukrainian former president Viktor Yanukovych - the Putin ally forced from office in the country's 'orange revolution'.
He worked as an associate for the law firm Skadden, Arps, Meagher, & Flom LLP on behalf of the project and admits to lying to Mueller's investigators about his communications with Gates and withholding evidence.
Charging documents show that he surreptitiously recorded Gates but lied to the FBI about it.
He also made false statements about his conversations with someone identified as 'Person A' who was on the call with him and Gates.
Refs:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/...ller-probe
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-plea.html