Previously, In the Mueller Report... Vol I. Part II Russian “Active Measures” Social Media Campaign Key Findings: ● The IRA used social media to attempt to influence U.S. Elections. ● The IRA recruited U.S. persons to organize pro-Trump rallies across the U.S. ● The Trump campaign engaged with IRA-controlled social media accounts. VOL I. Part III Russian Hacking & Dumping Operations Key Findings: ● The GRU hacked into email accounts in the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and the DCCC. ● The GRU disseminated this data through DCLeaks, Guccifer 2.0, and WikiLeaks. ● The Trump campaign displayed an interest in the WikiLeaks releases. ● Evidence was sufficient to indict GRU officers for their roles in election-related hacking. VOL I. Part IV (Section A) Russian Government Links to & Contacts with The Trump Administration (Campaign Period) Key Findings: ● President Trump, assisted by Michael Cohen, pursued the Trump Tower Moscow project, well into the summer of 2016. ● George Papadopoulos was told of "dirt" on Hillary Clinton. ● Trump Campaign representatives met with a Russian attorney in Trump Tower for information on Hillary Clinton. ● Paul Manafort, who has extensive previous ties to the Ukraine and Russia, was hired as Trump campaign chairman. Redactions Defined... Harm to Ongoing Matter (HOM) Information that pertains to ongoing investigations stemming from special counsel’s original probe. Investigative Techniques Information that would disclose secret intelligence sources and methods. Personal Privacy Information that could be damning to “peripheral third parties” - specifically unindicted individuals. Grand Jury Material collected in grand jury interviews with witnesses. Used to protect secrecy of federal investigations and people under investigation not charged with a crime. T I M E L I N SOURCE E https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/26/us/politics/trump-contacts-russians-wikileaks.html TONIGHT! VOLUME I - Part IV.B & Part V PART IV Russian Government Links To and Contacts with the Trump Campaign Section B Russian Government Links To And Contacts With The Trump Campaign MUELLER LIVE! part PART V Prosecution and Declination of Decisions 3 6 TONIGHT’S READERS DAVID HIGGINS (host) SARAH CLOUGH ROBERT MATNEY EMILY MILLE MUELLER LIVE! JASON ROMERO part BETH BACKMAN 3 6 VOLUME I - Part IV, Section B IV. Russian Government Links To and Contacts with the Trump Campaign B. Post-Election and Transition Period Contacts 1. Immediate Post-Election Activity 2. Kirill Dmitriev's Transition-Era Outreach to the Incoming Administration 3. Ambassador Kislyak's Meeting with Jared Kushner and Michael Flynn m Trump Tower Following the Election MUELLER 4. Jared Kushner’s Meeting with Sergey Gorkov LIVE! 5. Petr Aven’s Outreach Efforts to the Transition Team part 6. Carter Page Contact with Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich 3 6 7. Contacts With and Through Michael T. Flynn IV RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT LINKS TO & CONTACTS WITH THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN PART B POST-ELECTION & TRANSITION-PERIOD CONTACTS 1. IMMEDIATE POST-ELECTION ACTIVITY Sergey Kislyak Dimitri Simes Russian Ambassador to the Russian National, CEO of CNI, closely U.S. (2008 - 2017) connected to Russian oligarchs. Hope Hicks Petr Aven - Trump Campaign & Transition - Russian National, head of Alfa-Bank Team Press Secretary - 1/50 men known as the “oligarchs” - White House Communication Director (Aug 2017 - March 2018) Jared Kushner Vladimir Putin - Senior White House Advisor President of Russia (2000 - 2008, 2012- - Son-in-Law of D. Trump present) 2. KIRILL DMITRIEV’S TRANSITION-ERA OUTREACH TO THE INCOMING ADMINISTRATION Kirill Dmitriev ● CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fung (RDIF) ● Russian National ● Close ties to Putin George Nader ● Advisor to Crown Prince Mohammed (UAE) ● Consultant to Erik Prince (of Blackwater) ● Convicted Sex Offender ● Arrested June 2019 for child pornography!!! Erik Prince ● Founder of Blackwater USA (now called Academi) ● Brother of Betsy DeVos ● Former Navy SEAL ● Heads private equity firm, Frontier Resources Group ● Friends with Steve Bannon ● No official role in the campaign Dmitry Peskov ● Russian Federation Press Secretary (2012 - present) Rick Gerson ● Friend of Jared Kushner ● Hedge Fund Manager in New York ● No formal role in the transition team ● No involvement in Trump Campaign 3. AMBASSADOR KISLYAK’S MEETING WITH JARED KUSHNER & MICHAEL FLYNN IN TRUMP TOWER FOLLOWING THE ELECTION Bob Foresman ● UBS Investment Banker ● Former head of Russian operations at Barclay’s ● Passed information from Russian Government officials to members of the Trump transition team Michael T. Flynn ● Former National Security Advisor to D. Trump ● Lied to FBI about contacts with Sergey Kislyak K.T. McFarland ● Deputy National Security Advisor under Michael Flynn 4. JARED KUSHNER’S MEETING WITH SERGEY GORKOV Avi Berkowitz ● Jared Kushner’s assistant Sergey Gorkov ● Head of Russian-Government owned bank, Vnesheconombank (VEB) 5. PETR AVEN’S OUTREACH EFFORTS TO THE TRANSITION TEAM Petr Aven ● Russian National, head of Alfa-Bank ● 1/50 men known as the “oligarchs” ● Attends quarterly meetings with Putin Richard Burt ● American businessman ● Board of directors for LetterOne (L1), a company headed by Aven ● Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany 6. CARTER PAGE CONTACT WITH DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ARKADY DVORKOVICH Arkady Dvorkovich ● Russia Deputy Prime Minister (2012 - 2018) ● Official of the Russian Chess Federation Shlomo Weber ● Economics Professor at the New Economic School (NES), Moscow 7. CONTACTS WITH AND THROUGH MICHAEL T. FLYNN Steve Bannon Sean Spicer ● Former chief strategist ● Former White House for D. Trump Press Sec (2017) ● Serves on board of ● Former Comm. Cambridge Analytica Director for the RNC Reince Priebus Sergey Lavrov ● Former Chief of Staff ● Russian Foreign for D. Trump Minister (2004 - ● Former chairman of present) RNC (2011- 2017) PART V PROSECUTION & DECLINATION OF DECISIONS VOLUME I - Part V V. Prosecution and Declination of Decisions A. Russian “Active Measures” Social Media Campaign B. Russian Hacking and Dumping Operations C. Russian Government Outreach and Contacts 1. Potential Coordination: Conspiracy & Collusion 2. Potential Coordination: Foreign Agents MUELLER LIVE! Statutes part 3. Campaign Finance 4. False Statements and Obstruction of the 3 6 Investigation INTRO SUMMARY The Special Counsel’s office is authorized “to prosecute federal crimes arising from its investigation” on the matters assigned to it. The Special Counsel’s Office determined: 1. Contacts between the Trump Campaign and Russia-linked individuals either: ❏ Did not involve the commission of a federal crime, or ❏ That evidence was not sufficient to obtain and sustain a criminal conviction. 2. The Principles of Federal Prosecution supported charging certain individuals connected to the campaign with making false statements or otherwise obstructing the investigation or parallel congressional investigations. A. RUSSIAN “ACTIVE MEASURES” SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN SUMMARY OF RESULTS ● Grand Jury indicted 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian entities - including the IRA and Concord Mgmt & Consulting Group - of interfering with U.S. Elections and political processes. ○ Count One: Conspiracy to defraud the United States (all defendants) ○ Count Two: Conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud (3 defendants) ○ Count Three - Eight: Aggravated identity theft ● No Trump campaign official or any other U.S. person charged with participating in the conspiracy. ● One U.S. national (Richard Pinedo) charged with one count of identity fraud - for his role in supplying false or stolen bank account numbers to the IRA. B. RUSSIAN HACKING & DUMPING OPERATIONS SUMMARY OF RESULTS A Grand Jury indicted Russian military intelligence officers from the GRU with: ● Count One: Conspiring to hack into various U.S. computers used by the Clinton Campaign, DNC, DCCC, and other U.S. persons. ● Counts two - ten: Committing identity theft and conspiring to commit money laundering in furtherance of that hacking conspiracy. ● Count eleven (aka the Netyksho Indictment): Conspiracy to hack into the computers of U.S. persons and entities responsible for the administration of the 2016 U.S. election. C. RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT OUTREACH AND CONTACTS SUMMARY OF RESULTS ● Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) charges levied against Paul Manafort and Richard Gates based on their activities on behalf of the Ukraine (e.g., they didn’t register as foreign agents). ● Some individuals charged with making false statements and obstructing justice. ● No individuals associated with the Trump campaign charged with conspiracy to commit a federal offense arising from Russia contacts or conspiracy to defraud the United States. “Thing of Value” legally includes: ● Law enforcement reports that would reveal the identity of informants ● Classified materials ● Confidential information about a competitive bid ● Secret grand jury information ● Information about a witness’s whereabouts ● The value which the defendant subjectively attaches to the items received ● The provision of any goods or services without charge (including membership lists and mailing lists, lists of activists, polling data, and other election materials). Examples from page 186 of the report. Criteria For Making False Statements To meet the standard, the following must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt: ● The statement was false, fictitious, or fraudulent ● The defendant knew it was false and that it was unlawful to make a false statement ● The false statement was “material” - i.e.,