{"id":92732,"date":"2018-01-15T14:43:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T18:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=92732"},"modified":"2018-01-15T14:46:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T18:46:31","slug":"uranium-one-11-count-indictment-handed-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=92732","title":{"rendered":"URANIUM ONE: 11-count indictment\u00a0handed down"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>FBI Probe Into Russian Uranium Bribes Concealed By Obama DOJ; Mueller, McCabe, Rosenstein Involved<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-01-13\/doj-unseals-11-count-indictment-involving-uranium-one-scandal\"><strong>11-count indictment<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of former\u00a0uranium transportation company executive, Mark Lambert, was the latest in a series of DOJ prosecutions involving individuals linked to the Russian nuclear industry and the Uranium One deal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2b3182d_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92733\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2b3182d_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2b3182d_1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2b3182d_1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2b3182d_1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Mark Lambert<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/former-president-maryland-based-transportation-company-indicted-11-counts-related-foreign\"><strong>indictment<\/strong><\/a>, Lambert and others at Transport Logistics International (TLI) engaged in several counts of bribery,\u00a0kickbacks and money laundering with\u00a0Russian nuclear official\u00a0Vadim Mikerin, in order to secure business advantages with TENEX &#8211; a subsidiary of Rosatom, the Kremlin&#8217;s state-owned energy company which bought Uranium One.<\/p>\n<p>TLI would have ostensibly transported all of the uranium from the U1 deal, were it not for an FBI undercover mole\u00a0buried deep within the Russian nuclear industry who gathered extensive evidence of corruption.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What many don&#8217;t realize is that Lambert&#8217;s Friday indictment is\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0the first\u00a0linked to the Uranium One deal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In fact, Robert Mueller&#8217;s FBI had been investigating the scheme since at least 2008\u00a0&#8211; with\u00a0retiring Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe assigned to the ongoing investigation\u00a0which was\u00a0hidden from the Committee on Foreign Investments in the Untid States (CFIUS).\u00a0<strong>Had they known, the committee never would have approved the Uranium One deal with TENEX&#8217;s parent company, Rosatom.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Four individuals were eventually prosecuted<\/b>\u00a0and given plea agreements\u00a0<em>after<\/em>\u00a0the Uranium One deal was approved. The prosecuting DOJ attorneys? Deputy Attorney General\u00a0<strong>Rod Rosenstein and top Mueller\u00a0investigator in the Trump-Russia probe, Andrew Weissman &#8211; who praised former acting Attorney General Sally Yates for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/12\/05\/mueller-deputy-praised-doj-official-after-defied-trump-travel-ban-order-am-so-proud.html\">defying Trump<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, all four indicted individuals were handed extremely light sentences, none of which\u00a0made headlines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The judge?<\/strong>\u00a0Theodore Chuang &#8211; an Obama appointee who went to Harvard Law at the same time as Obama, advised Hillary Clinton as &#8220;<strong>Counselor on detail to the United States Department of State,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0and just so happened to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2017\/10\/18\/558501163\/federal-judge-in-maryland-blocks-trumps-latest-travel-ban-attempt\">strike down<\/a>\u00a0Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Travel Ban&#8221; Executive Order.<strong>\u00a0Chuang&#8217;s wife, Jacinta Ma served as a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/UQNxv\">senior policy advisor<\/a>\u00a0to Michelle Obama.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Independent researcher\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Imperator_Rex3\">Imperator Rex<\/a>\u00a0has neatly tied it all together for your edification on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/Imperator_Rex3\/status\/952684729056161792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnews%2F2018-01-15%2Ffbi-probe-russian-uranium-bribes-concealed-obama-doj-mueller-mccabe-rosenstein<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/Imperator_Rex3\/status\/952684855397007360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnews%2F2018-01-15%2Ffbi-probe-russian-uranium-bribes-concealed-obama-doj-mueller-mccabe-rosenstein<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/Imperator_Rex3\/status\/952685013539028993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnews%2F2018-01-15%2Ffbi-probe-russian-uranium-bribes-concealed-obama-doj-mueller-mccabe-rosenstein<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-01-15\/fbi-probe-russian-uranium-bribes-concealed-obama-doj-mueller-mccabe-rosenstein\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Which again begs the question, who&#8217;s watching the watchers?<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-01-15\/fbi-probe-russian-uranium-bribes-concealed-obama-doj-mueller-mccabe-rosenstein\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-01-15\/fbi-probe-russian-uranium-bribes-concealed-obama-doj-mueller-mccabe-rosenstein<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Probe Into Russian Uranium Bribes Concealed By Obama DOJ; Mueller, McCabe, Rosenstein Involved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}