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Trump Asked Rex Tillerson To Help Giuliani Client With DOJ: Bloomberg | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
"From Bombshell News To Giuliani 'Grenade': Trump Aide Warned Ukraine Plot Like A Criminal Drug Deal"
Oct 10, 2019
MSNBC
Nick Wadhams, national security reporter for Bloomberg, talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting that Donald Trump asked his then-Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, to help a client of Rudy Giuliani, a Turkish national named Reza Zarrab, who was facing federal charges with the DOJ. Aired on 10/09/19.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfd9x6YVVfQ
Just after Tillerson was fired in Dec. 2018 he said, in an interview, that Trump had asked him to do things in a way which would violate the law.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, March 21, 2016
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Arrest Of Turkish National For Conspiring To Evade U.S. Sanctions Against Iran, Money Laundering, And Bank Fraud
Charges Unsealed Against Three Defendants Who Allegedly Engaged in Hundreds of Millions of Dollars of Transactions on Behalf of the Government of Iran and Iranian Entities As Part of a Scheme to Evade U.S. Sanctions
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the unsealing of an indictment against three individuals in connection with engaging in hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of transactions on behalf of the Government of Iran and other Iranian entities, which were barred by United States sanctions, laundering the proceeds of those illegal transactions, and defrauding several financial institutions by concealing the true nature of these transactions. REZA ZARRAB, a/k/a “Riza Sarraf,” CAMELIA JAMSHIDY, a/k/a “Kamelia Jamshidy,” and HOSSEIN NAJAFZADEH are charged with orchestrating fraudulent transactions that were intended to hide the fact that the transactions were for the benefit of the Government of Iran or other sanctioned Iranian entities and to launder the proceeds of that illegal activity. The case is assigned to United States District Judge Richard M. Berman.
ZARRAB was arrested on March 19, 2016, and was presented in federal court in Miami, Florida, today. JAMSHIDY and NAJAFZADEH remain at large.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-announces-arrest-turkish-national-conspiring-evade-us-sanctions
Prosecutor and Judge Issue Rare Response to Criticism From Turkey
Reza Zarrab, the Turkish gold trader whose criminal case has attracted high-powered lawyers and worldwide interest, in 2013.
Depo Photos, via Associated Press
By Benjamin Weiser Nov. 21, 2017
Very few criminal prosecutions in New York have likely drawn as much public criticism from a foreign leader as that of Reza Zarrab, a Turkish-Iranian gold trader who was charged along with eight other defendants with conspiring to evade the United States sanctions on Iran.
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has called the charges a plot against the Turkish Republic, and raised the issue in a phone call with President Trump in September. Turkey’s foreign minister claimed that the prosecution’s evidence was concocted by Gulenists, a movement led by an Islamic cleric living in exile in Pennsylvania; the movement has been banned in Turkey as a terrorist group and blamed by Mr. Erdogan for the failed coup in 2016.
On Saturday, Turkey opened an investigation of Preet Bharara, the former United States attorney in Manhattan whose office filed the original charges, and of his successor, Joon H. Kim, who is overseeing a trial in the case that starts next week.
On Tuesday, Mr. Kim and the judge, Richard M. Berman, took the unusual step of responding publicly to the Turkish officials’ criticism.
More - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/nyregion/zarrab-erdogan-bharara-kim-turkey.html
Remember who copped to not registering as a foreign agent. Not sentenced yet.
Michael Flynn Was Paid to Represent Turkey’s Interests During Trump Campaign
By Peter Baker and Matthew Rosenberg March 10, 2017
WASHINGTON — The candidate he was advising last fall was running on a platform of America First.
The client he was working for last fall was paying him more than $500,000 to put Turkey first.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/us/politics/michael-flynn-turkey.html
Allegedly Flynn was offered millions more if he could get Reza Zarrab freed from prison. Giuliani was one of Zarrab's lawyers.
Closer to today
Apparently Trump asked Tillerson to interfere with the Justice Department by getting them to stop the
prosecution of Zarrab. So Trump is now into what Flynn was allegedly offered more millions to do.
Trump Urged Top Aide to Help Giuliani Client Facing DOJ Charges
By Nick Wadhams, Saleha Mohsin, Stephanie Baker, and Jennifer Jacobs
October 10, 2019, 9:27 AM GMT+11
> Secretary of State Rex Tillerson refused to interfere in case
> 2017 episode bears hallmarks of Trump approach to Ukraine call
President Donald Trump pressed then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to help persuade the Justice Department to drop a criminal case against an Iranian-Turkish gold trader who was a client of Rudy Giuliani, according to three people familiar with the 2017 meeting in the Oval Office.
Tillerson refused, arguing it would constitute interference in an ongoing investigation of the trader, Reza Zarrab, according to the people. They said other participants in the Oval Office were shocked by the request.
Rex Tillerson and Donald Trump in 2017. Photographer: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Tillerson immediately repeated his objections to then-Chief of Staff John Kelly in a hallway conversation just outside the Oval Office, emphasizing that the request would be illegal. Neither episode has been previously reported, and all of the people spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the conversations.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-09/trump-urged-top-aide-to-help-giuliani-client-facing-doj-charges
Nick Wadhams comes into the video above at 19:04.
"From Bombshell News To Giuliani 'Grenade': Trump Aide Warned Ukraine Plot Like A Criminal Drug Deal"
Oct 10, 2019
MSNBC
Nick Wadhams, national security reporter for Bloomberg, talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting that Donald Trump asked his then-Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, to help a client of Rudy Giuliani, a Turkish national named Reza Zarrab, who was facing federal charges with the DOJ. Aired on 10/09/19.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfd9x6YVVfQ
Just after Tillerson was fired in Dec. 2018 he said, in an interview, that Trump had asked him to do things in a way which would violate the law.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, March 21, 2016
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Arrest Of Turkish National For Conspiring To Evade U.S. Sanctions Against Iran, Money Laundering, And Bank Fraud
Charges Unsealed Against Three Defendants Who Allegedly Engaged in Hundreds of Millions of Dollars of Transactions on Behalf of the Government of Iran and Iranian Entities As Part of a Scheme to Evade U.S. Sanctions
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the unsealing of an indictment against three individuals in connection with engaging in hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of transactions on behalf of the Government of Iran and other Iranian entities, which were barred by United States sanctions, laundering the proceeds of those illegal transactions, and defrauding several financial institutions by concealing the true nature of these transactions. REZA ZARRAB, a/k/a “Riza Sarraf,” CAMELIA JAMSHIDY, a/k/a “Kamelia Jamshidy,” and HOSSEIN NAJAFZADEH are charged with orchestrating fraudulent transactions that were intended to hide the fact that the transactions were for the benefit of the Government of Iran or other sanctioned Iranian entities and to launder the proceeds of that illegal activity. The case is assigned to United States District Judge Richard M. Berman.
ZARRAB was arrested on March 19, 2016, and was presented in federal court in Miami, Florida, today. JAMSHIDY and NAJAFZADEH remain at large.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-announces-arrest-turkish-national-conspiring-evade-us-sanctions
Prosecutor and Judge Issue Rare Response to Criticism From Turkey
Reza Zarrab, the Turkish gold trader whose criminal case has attracted high-powered lawyers and worldwide interest, in 2013.
Depo Photos, via Associated Press
By Benjamin Weiser Nov. 21, 2017
Very few criminal prosecutions in New York have likely drawn as much public criticism from a foreign leader as that of Reza Zarrab, a Turkish-Iranian gold trader who was charged along with eight other defendants with conspiring to evade the United States sanctions on Iran.
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has called the charges a plot against the Turkish Republic, and raised the issue in a phone call with President Trump in September. Turkey’s foreign minister claimed that the prosecution’s evidence was concocted by Gulenists, a movement led by an Islamic cleric living in exile in Pennsylvania; the movement has been banned in Turkey as a terrorist group and blamed by Mr. Erdogan for the failed coup in 2016.
On Saturday, Turkey opened an investigation of Preet Bharara, the former United States attorney in Manhattan whose office filed the original charges, and of his successor, Joon H. Kim, who is overseeing a trial in the case that starts next week.
On Tuesday, Mr. Kim and the judge, Richard M. Berman, took the unusual step of responding publicly to the Turkish officials’ criticism.
More - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/nyregion/zarrab-erdogan-bharara-kim-turkey.html
Remember who copped to not registering as a foreign agent. Not sentenced yet.
Michael Flynn Was Paid to Represent Turkey’s Interests During Trump Campaign
By Peter Baker and Matthew Rosenberg March 10, 2017
WASHINGTON — The candidate he was advising last fall was running on a platform of America First.
The client he was working for last fall was paying him more than $500,000 to put Turkey first.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/us/politics/michael-flynn-turkey.html
Allegedly Flynn was offered millions more if he could get Reza Zarrab freed from prison. Giuliani was one of Zarrab's lawyers.
Closer to today
Apparently Trump asked Tillerson to interfere with the Justice Department by getting them to stop the
prosecution of Zarrab. So Trump is now into what Flynn was allegedly offered more millions to do.
Trump Urged Top Aide to Help Giuliani Client Facing DOJ Charges
By Nick Wadhams, Saleha Mohsin, Stephanie Baker, and Jennifer Jacobs
October 10, 2019, 9:27 AM GMT+11
> Secretary of State Rex Tillerson refused to interfere in case
> 2017 episode bears hallmarks of Trump approach to Ukraine call
President Donald Trump pressed then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to help persuade the Justice Department to drop a criminal case against an Iranian-Turkish gold trader who was a client of Rudy Giuliani, according to three people familiar with the 2017 meeting in the Oval Office.
Tillerson refused, arguing it would constitute interference in an ongoing investigation of the trader, Reza Zarrab, according to the people. They said other participants in the Oval Office were shocked by the request.
Rex Tillerson and Donald Trump in 2017. Photographer: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Tillerson immediately repeated his objections to then-Chief of Staff John Kelly in a hallway conversation just outside the Oval Office, emphasizing that the request would be illegal. Neither episode has been previously reported, and all of the people spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the conversations.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-09/trump-urged-top-aide-to-help-giuliani-client-facing-doj-charges
Nick Wadhams comes into the video above at 19:04.
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