Obama Should Have Prosecuted Russians for Racketeering, Former NYC Attorney Says
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Andrew McCarthy said Monday on “The Laura Ingraham Show” that former President Barack Obama’s administration should have prosecuted the American subsidiary of the Russian atomic energy company for racketeering before it was able to acquire the Canadian company Uranium One and get control of 20 percent of all uranium in the U.S.
McCarthy, a contributing editor at National Review, noted that the Obama administration’s Justice Department knew at the time about the illegal activities conducted by Tenam USA, the U.S. arm of Tenex, a subsidiary of the Russian nuclear energy company Rosotam. At the time, the Justice Department already knew about Tenam USA’s racketeering enterprise, which allowed felony extortion, money-laundering, and fraud, McCarthy noted. The events in question also occurred under 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.
Nevertheless, the Obama administration allowed 20 percent of the United States' uranium reserves to fall under Russian control to take place in 2010. And "the bottom line," McCarthy said, was that the Obama administration "green-lighted a very dubious transition, which enabled the Putin regime in Russia to acquire ... 20 percent of the U.S. uranium stock."
"The Obama Justice Department had an active prosecutable racketeering investigation against a subsidiary of Rosatam, that is the American arm of this Russian government-controlled company that was trying to expand Putin's energy interests in the United States," he said. "The Justice Department had a racketeering case that it could easily have prosecuted at that point, but did not bring the case under circumstances where bringing it would surely have scotched the deal that allowed Russians to acquire our uranium."
Instead of immediately prosecuting those involved in the scheme, Obama's Justice Department largely kept the matter out of the spotlight and continued investigating the scheme for four more years, The Hill said last week in its bombshell report. Tenam's Russian general manager, Vadim Mikerin, was the subject of the Justice Department's racketeering investigation.
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A few questions:
1) Why was this a good deal?
2) Will the Clinton Foundation be getting another $140 million donation from the Russians any time soon?
So expand the Russia investigations. Not going to change what is happening with Trump and Russia. Or Trump and the emoluments problem, which will also be part of Russia. Might even be money laundering. You won't like who is caught in the webs in the end, though.
What is happening with Trump & Russia?
If you aren't interested in keeping up with the information out there, sit back and wait til the investigations are complete. I have no interest in making it easy, you can wait and be surprised.
Cant back it up. huh?.
You may be one of the last believers in the Trump collusion story. Even Chris Matthews gave up on it a long time ago.