05-06-2018, 11:14 AM
2. Concord, Russian-oligarch controlled company
The 13 Russian individuals charged with U.S. election fraud in the high-profile indictment in February are considered unlikely to ever appear in a U.S. court. The three businesses accused of facilitating the alleged Russian troll farm operation — the Internet Research Agency, Concord Management, and Concord Catering — were also expected to simply ignore the American criminal proceedings.
Last month, however, a pair of Washington-area lawyers suddenly surfaced in the case, notifying the court that they represent Concord Management, in an apparent bid to force Mueller’s team to turn over relevant evidence to the Russian firm and perhaps even to bait prosecutors into an embarrassing dismissal in order to avoid disclosing sensitive information.
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The three companies named in the indictment are all reported to be controlled by a Russian businessman known as Russian President Vladimir Putin's "chef," Yevgeny Prigozhin (pictured above). He's also one of the 13 individuals criminally charged in the case.
In their request on Friday to put off the arraignment, prosecutors included the extensive demands for information that the lawyers for Concord Management have set forth since they stepped forward last month.
“Until the Court has an opportunity to determine if Concord was properly served, it would be inadvisable to conduct an initial appearance and arraignment at which important rights will be communicated and a plea entertained,” U.S. federal attorneys Jeannie Rhee, Rush Atkinson and Ryan Dickey wrote. “That is especially true in the context of this case, which involves a foreign corporate defendant, controlled by another, individual foreign defendant, that has already demanded production of sensitive intelligence gathering, national security, and foreign affairs information.”
The Mueller team proposed that both sides file briefs in the coming weeks on the issues of whether Concord has been properly served.
In a brief order yesterday evening, U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee based in Washington, offered no explanation for her decision to deny the prosecutions request for a delay of the scheduled Wednesday arraignment for Concord Management and Consulting.
It will be interesting to see what goes down at Wednesday's proceeding.
Ref: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/0...lay-570627
The 13 Russian individuals charged with U.S. election fraud in the high-profile indictment in February are considered unlikely to ever appear in a U.S. court. The three businesses accused of facilitating the alleged Russian troll farm operation — the Internet Research Agency, Concord Management, and Concord Catering — were also expected to simply ignore the American criminal proceedings.
Last month, however, a pair of Washington-area lawyers suddenly surfaced in the case, notifying the court that they represent Concord Management, in an apparent bid to force Mueller’s team to turn over relevant evidence to the Russian firm and perhaps even to bait prosecutors into an embarrassing dismissal in order to avoid disclosing sensitive information.
The three companies named in the indictment are all reported to be controlled by a Russian businessman known as Russian President Vladimir Putin's "chef," Yevgeny Prigozhin (pictured above). He's also one of the 13 individuals criminally charged in the case.
In their request on Friday to put off the arraignment, prosecutors included the extensive demands for information that the lawyers for Concord Management have set forth since they stepped forward last month.
“Until the Court has an opportunity to determine if Concord was properly served, it would be inadvisable to conduct an initial appearance and arraignment at which important rights will be communicated and a plea entertained,” U.S. federal attorneys Jeannie Rhee, Rush Atkinson and Ryan Dickey wrote. “That is especially true in the context of this case, which involves a foreign corporate defendant, controlled by another, individual foreign defendant, that has already demanded production of sensitive intelligence gathering, national security, and foreign affairs information.”
The Mueller team proposed that both sides file briefs in the coming weeks on the issues of whether Concord has been properly served.
In a brief order yesterday evening, U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee based in Washington, offered no explanation for her decision to deny the prosecutions request for a delay of the scheduled Wednesday arraignment for Concord Management and Consulting.
It will be interesting to see what goes down at Wednesday's proceeding.
Ref: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/0...lay-570627