S/C Mueller Got One Liar Sentenced With Fine and Jail Time: Guess Who's Next

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Q & A: “Is collusion a crime?” (No, it is not Federal Crime Code) however, this latest action proves Mueller is hot on the trail finding of all kinds of links that lead to or involve Trump’s 2016 campaign, or those very close to him, and perhaps Trump himself since it is very hard believe that Trump did not know what was happening on his behalf since he excels about being in control and on top of everything around him.

This post's source is from Washington (AFP).  The Dutch lawyer with direct knowledge of contacts between Russian intelligence officials and a top official in Donald Trump's campaign became the first person sentenced in special prosecutor Robert Mueller's sprawling investigation. 

His name is Alex van der Zwaan. He  was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a $20,000 fine after pleading guilty to lying about his contacts with former campaign deputy Rick Gates and a former Russian intelligence official. 

Van der Zwaan, a Dutch national with Russian roots and son-in-law of a prominent Russian tycoon, was a lawyer in London for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in 2012 when he carried out work for the Ukraine government through Gates and close associate Paul Manafort. 

In 2016, after Manafort became chairman of Trump's election campaign and took Gates on as his deputy, van der Zwaan and Gates both had communications with a person they knew as a former official of Russia's GRU intelligence agency, prosecutors said (see more on this below). 

According to the FBI court documents, an individual labeled as “Person A” had ties to the GRU (Russian intelligence service) in 2016. 

(Note: “Person A” has since been identified as a former GRU intelligence officer by the name of: Konstantin Kilimnik – whose name surfaced many times during the 2016 election cycle. As I said, he was a longtime fixer in Ukraine for Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, and he had communicated with Gates just ahead of the November 2016 vote, and then a year later he traded emails with the freshly-indicted Paul Manafort. Kilimnik was a onetime Russian military intelligence officer in the GRU (Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate) – that was in the Mueller court filing which ID him as “Person A”). More on all this here, here, and a lot more here).

My 2 Cents: As the old song says: “The Heat is On” and Trump loyalist’s heat shields and tinfoil hats won’t work. 

Mr. Mueller is like a bloodhound – the trail is hot and he knows exactly where it leads – stay tuned. 

With this sentence (the fine and jail time) for lying Mueller's strategy and technique are clear: Working his way to the top. 

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