Неравная борьба

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Трамп отменяет планы по созданию внутри Белого дома боевого штаба ("war room") для того, чтобы отбиваться от обвинений в российских связях.

The so-called war room, similar to a Clinton administration crisis operation created to deal with Monica Lewinsky-related inquiries, was taking shape as of last week, with plans for two former campaign aides to take over rapid response on Russia questions, according to a person with knowledge of the conversations.
Former deputy campaign manager David Bossie was being considered to join the West Wing in a senior position. Corey Lewandowski, a former campaign manager who was fired in June 2016, was scouting office space in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building last week for a White House team.
The president decided that Bossie and Lewandowski would be “more valuable on the outside than on the inside fighting back against the Russia narrative specifically,” said a person with knowledge of the conversations.
One White House official said no final decision had been made, while a second said that the administration will have no direct involvement in responding to the Russia investigation.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/05/trump-russia-war-room-239170

Попытки нанять на стороне серьезных адвокатов были не слишком успешными.

Top lawyers with at least four major law firms rebuffed White House overtures to represent President Trump in the Russia investigations, in part over concerns that the president would be unwilling to listen to their advice, according to five sources familiar with discussions about the matter.
The unwillingness of some of the country’s most prestigious attorneys and their law firms to represent Trump has complicated the administration’s efforts to mount a coherent defense strategy to deal with probes being conducted by four congressional committees as well as Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/four-top-law-firms-turned-requests-represent-trump-122423972.html

Приходится рассчитывать на прежде нанятого адвоката, а также на верный Твиттер, в котором он собирается комментировать показания Коми в Сенате.

I'm told by two WH sources that Pres. Trump does not plan to put down Twitter on Thursday. May live tweet if he feels the need to respond.
- Robert Costa (@costareports) June 6, 2017



Между тем специальный прокурор Мюллер собирает для своего расследования неслабую команду, в основном из оправдавших доверие бывших коллег.

He already has picked three former colleagues from his last job as a partner at the Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr law firm: Aaron Zebley, who also was Mueller’s FBI chief of staff; Jeannie Rhee, a former DOJ attorney; and Quarles, who got his start in Washington some four decades ago as an assistant Watergate prosecutor.
But Mueller’s biggest hire to date was Weissmann, who is taking a leave from his current post leading the Justice Department’s criminal fraud section. The two men have a long history together at the FBI, where Weissmann served as both the bureau’s general counsel from 2011 to 2013 and as Mueller’s special counsel in 2005.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/06/mueller-russia-probe-trump-239163



Эндрю Вайсман в качестве прокурора расследовал крупнейшие мафиозные семьи Америки, а также крупнейшую компанию Энрон, в который за мошенничество была осуждена вся верхушка руководства.

From 2002-2005, he served as the Deputy and then the Director of the Enron Task Force in Washington, D.C., where he supervised the prosecution of more than 30 individuals in connection with the company’s collapse. Weissmann was a federal prosecutor for 15 years in the Eastern District of New York, where he served as the Chief of the Criminal Division. He prosecuted numerous members of the Colombo, Gambino, and Genovese families, including the bosses of the Colombo and Genovese families.
https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.biography&personid=39254

У Трампа были в свое время свои собственные связи с мафиозными семьями Нью-Йорка, с которыми он изначально познакомился через Роя Кона. Семейство Genovese контролировало строительные профсоюзы и позволило Трампу в обход профсоюзов нанять по дешевке для строительства Trump Tower нелегальных польских иммигрантов.

Normally the use of nonunion workers at a union job site would have guaranteed a picket line. Not at this site, however. Work proceeded because the Genovese family principally controlled the union; this was demonstrated by extensive testimony, documents and convictions in federal trials, as well as a later report by the New York State Organized Crime Task Force.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910

Прокурор Вайсман был среди тех, кто отправил за решетку последнего крестного отца этого семейства.

The Genovese crime family was once considered the most powerful organized crime family in the nation. Members and their numerous associates engaged in drug trafficking, murder, assault, gambling, extortion, loansharking, labor racketeering, money laundering, arson, gasoline bootlegging, and infiltration of legitimate businesses. Genovese family members also were involved in stock market manipulation and other illegal frauds and schemes, as evidenced in the FBI's “Mobstocks” investigation.
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/organized-crime/history-of-la-cosa-nostra



В расследовании мафиозных семейств Нью-Йорка помощь ФБР в обмен на смягчение наказания оказал хороший знакомый Трампа Феликс Саттер, который был завязан с мафией в финансовом мошенничестве.

...their illicit activities involved four different Italian mafia crime families, as a subsequent grand jury indictment in 2000 stated. Specifically, from March 1993 to October 1996, Frank Coppa Sr., a captain in the Bonnano crime family; Eugene Lombardo, an associate of that family; Daniel Perisco, an associate of the Colombo family; Joseph Polito Sr., an associate of the Gambino family, Ernest “Butch” Montevecchi, a soldier in the Genovese family among others, “devised, implemented and oversaw fraudulent schemes to manipulate the price of securities” of four different companies and “fraudulently induc[ed] investors to buy and hold these securities,” according to the indictment, also filed in the Eastern District of New York. Sater, Klotsman, and Lauria, who had already pleaded guilty to the 1998 complaint, were listed as unindicted co-conspirators in this later case, which clearly netted much bigger fish for the feds based on an accidental haul at the Mini Storage. They all turned on their former mob accomplices, as did Sater’s father, Mikhail Sater, also known as Michael Sheferofsky.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/felix-sater-the-crook-behind-the-trump-russia-peace-plan

В расследовании, которое теперь с помощью Вайсмана ведет Мюллер, персонажи вроде Саттера будут слишком мелкой рыбой, хотя кое-какой информацией они наверное могут помочь.