From the "Spy v Spy", files: Mifsud’s Lawyer: Former Italian Minister Nudged Mifsud to Introduce Trump’s Aide to Russians
It just gets curiouser and curiouser. We have here a self-admitted member of the Clinton Foundation, a man with a long list of CIA and FBI contacts, a man with a long list of other intelligence contacts ... and he's also the man who told Papadopolous something about Russians.
Gotta get more Popcorn ...
According to Stephan Roh, Mifsud’s lawyer, the suggestion came from Mifsud’s longtime associate and former Italian interior minister, Vincenzo Scotti, as well as Nagi Idris, a lawyer of Sudanese origin who at the time was Papadopoulos’s boss at the London Centre for International Law Practice (LCILP).
Information stemming from the Mifsud-Papadopoulos contacts was cited by the FBI as the reason why the bureau launched a counterintelligence investigation into several members of the Trump campaign.
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Mueller took over the probe in 2017 and, in March, concluded that “the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
Mifsud denied to the FBI telling Papadopoulos anything about Clinton’s emails or Russians having damaging information about her. He characterized himself as a “member” of the Clinton Foundation in his October 2017 interview with Italian La Repubblica; the foundation doesn’t have a membership. As opposed to several others, including Papadopoulos, Mifsud wasn’t charged by Mueller with lying to the FBI.
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If Roh’s representations prove accurate, they would deal another blow to the FBI’s justification for starting the probe, undermining its portrayal of Mifsud as a cut-out between the Russian government and Papadopoulos.
In his deposition, Mifsud said that it was Scotti who asked him to co-host a table at an upscale restaurant in Rome in March 2016. At the table was Papadopoulos, Idris, and others from the LCILP. Mifsud was listed on LCILP’s website as a board adviser and, after July 2016, director of international strategic development. The LCILP website later disappeared from the web.
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Papadopoulos was sentenced to two weeks in prison in September 2018 for lying to the FBI, by saying Mifsud told him about Clinton’s emails before he joined the Trump campaign.
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Mifsud has been a man of many titles, but the only gig that stayed with him through nearly all of his career was at the Link Campus University in Rome.
He helped to found the institution in 1999, together with Scotti, who became its president. Mifsud acted as a “director of international relations” and recruited foreign students for Link. The Renaissance manor that Link took as its campus became a mingling place for Western intelligence and security officials.
Information stemming from the Mifsud-Papadopoulos contacts was cited by the FBI as the reason why the bureau launched a counterintelligence investigation into several members of the Trump campaign.
...
Mueller took over the probe in 2017 and, in March, concluded that “the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
Mifsud denied to the FBI telling Papadopoulos anything about Clinton’s emails or Russians having damaging information about her. He characterized himself as a “member” of the Clinton Foundation in his October 2017 interview with Italian La Repubblica; the foundation doesn’t have a membership. As opposed to several others, including Papadopoulos, Mifsud wasn’t charged by Mueller with lying to the FBI.
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If Roh’s representations prove accurate, they would deal another blow to the FBI’s justification for starting the probe, undermining its portrayal of Mifsud as a cut-out between the Russian government and Papadopoulos.
In his deposition, Mifsud said that it was Scotti who asked him to co-host a table at an upscale restaurant in Rome in March 2016. At the table was Papadopoulos, Idris, and others from the LCILP. Mifsud was listed on LCILP’s website as a board adviser and, after July 2016, director of international strategic development. The LCILP website later disappeared from the web.
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Papadopoulos was sentenced to two weeks in prison in September 2018 for lying to the FBI, by saying Mifsud told him about Clinton’s emails before he joined the Trump campaign.
...
Mifsud has been a man of many titles, but the only gig that stayed with him through nearly all of his career was at the Link Campus University in Rome.
He helped to found the institution in 1999, together with Scotti, who became its president. Mifsud acted as a “director of international relations” and recruited foreign students for Link. The Renaissance manor that Link took as its campus became a mingling place for Western intelligence and security officials.
It just gets curiouser and curiouser. We have here a self-admitted member of the Clinton Foundation, a man with a long list of CIA and FBI contacts, a man with a long list of other intelligence contacts ... and he's also the man who told Papadopolous something about Russians.
Gotta get more Popcorn ...
