U.S. House panel taps veteran prosecutor to lead Trump probe

[webfact]

U.S. House panel taps veteran prosecutor to lead Trump probe

By Nathan Layne and Mark Hosenball

 

FILE PHOTO: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) speaks to reporters after the conclusion of testimony from Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney of U.S. President Donald Trump, at a closed House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 28, 2019. REUTERS/Jim Young/File photo

 

(Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said on Tuesday it had hired a former federal prosecutor in Manhattan with experience investigating Russian mobsters and white-collar crime to lead its probe into the Trump administration.

 

The hiring of Daniel Goldman is the latest move by the House's new Democratic majority to add legal firepower to an expanding list of investigations into the affairs of Republican President Donald Trump and his associates.

 

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Representative Jerrold Nadler, recently announced that he had retained Barry Berke, a prominent criminal trial lawyer, and Norman Eisen, a former adviser to President Barack Obama, to work on his expansive probe into Trump and other issues.

 

Representative Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, announced that Goldman joined the panel in February as senior adviser and director of investigations. Schiff also named a new budget director and three other people for various roles.

 

Goldman, who until recently was a frequent TV commentator on the special counsel's Russia investigation, said he was "excited" to join the committee's probe.

 

"Under Chairman Schiff's leadership, we intend to run a professional investigation designed to uncover the facts and the truth," Goldman said in an emailed statement.

 

The committee's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign has taken on new life since the Democrats took control of the House in November elections. The panel is set to hear testimony from Michael Cohen, the president's onetime "fixer," for a second time on Wednesday since he turned on his former boss.

 

Goldman was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York for a decade through 2017, serving as the lead prosecutor in the conviction of Las Vegas sports gambler William "Billy" Walters for insider trading.

 

But likely more relevant to the committee's probe is Goldman's tenure as deputy of the Southern District's Organized Crime Unit, where he oversaw a major Russian mob case against more than 30 individuals for money laundering and racketeering.

 

Goldman had been working as a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, commenting on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 22-month-old investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia. A spokeswoman for MSNBC confirmed Goldman was no longer an analyst for either network.

 

Goldman attended last summer's trial of former Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and was at the December sentencing of Cohen, who is due to start a three-year sentence in May for violating campaign finance laws and other crimes.

 

In other recent hires by the Democrats, the House Financial Services Committee enlisted the help of Bob Roach, a longtime investigator of complex financial and money laundering issues for the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

 

Russia has denied meddling in the 2016 election. Trump has said there was no collusion between his campaign and Moscow, and has called the Mueller probe a "witch hunt."

 

(Reporting by Nathan Layne and Mark Hosenball in Washington; editing by Jonathan Oatis and Tom Brown)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-03-06

[helpisgood]

27 minutes ago, webfact said:

In other recent hires by the Democrats, the House Financial Services Committee enlisted the help of Bob Roach, a longtime investigator of complex financial and money laundering issues for the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

 

Yes, follow the memorialized paper trail of financial transactions (which may be a puzzle for the inexperienced), because it makes for stronger evidence. 

 

As I recall, this is how, or a variation thereof, the Feds finally got Capone in court and thus sent away.

 

To be honest, I can understand how businesses like to push the envelope to make a profit...but unlawfully with the Russians!?

Edited March 5, 2019 by helpisgood
added last paragraph

[Samui Bodoh]

"...But likely more relevant to the committee's probe is Goldman's tenure as deputy of the Southern District's Organized Crime Unit, where he oversaw a major Russian mob case against more than 30 individuals for money laundering and racketeering..."

 

I read through the article, including the quoted passage above. Then, I read it again with wonderment; here is a news article, published by an internationally respected news organization (Reuters) which points out that a prosecutor looking into the US President has experience with Russian mobsters and Money-Laundering/Racketeering and that is an asset.

 

Wow.

 

The US has undergone many, many changes in the last while, and few of them positive. I sincerely hope one day that the US will push past the recent decline and once again be a positive force on the global stage. And yes, when I say, 'push past', you know exactly what I mean.

 

I have said it before and (sadly) need to say it again;

 

Donald Trump is an ever-expanding cloud of toxic waste that defiles everything it touches.

 

God help us all.

 

 

[Tug]

Hey samui I think Donald is on the way out and with any luck that McDonald’s diet can do its magic and the world would be relived of a great burden 

[neeray]

He'll be gone before long but never forgotten. Trump jokes and critiques will live on forever.

He'll be remembered but not the way a president likes to be remembered.

It will take years to undo the harm that he has done, no, excuse me, it will take decades.

Never again will any campaign use the slogan MAGA; it is now a toxic acronym. A slogan spoiled like so much else that has been spoiled by a POTUS who won the seat by cheating, lying and skullduggery.

[Puchaiyank]

Climate change, universal healthcare, stop all airline traffic, give everyone thousands of dollars, blatant socialist programs...more freebies to the masses...the Dems better find some way to dethrone Trump before the 2020 elections...

 

Shifty Adam, Dem from California, is the poster boy for everything wrong with American politics. He has no thought or motivation except to get Trump impeached...be careful what you wish for...????

[Trouble]

Seems to me that before all these committees start wasting too much money on investigation they should wait for the conclusion of the Mueller investigation and a report.  Seems like they could be wasting a lot of time going off in all directions without first finding out what Mueller found.

[Tug]

Muller has a narrow scope to look at the dems are looking into more mafia style crimes not the traitor treason type stuff mr muller is looking into

[Chomper Higgot]

12 minutes ago, Puchaiyank said:

Climate change, universal healthcare, stop all airline traffic, give everyone thousands of dollars, blatant socialist programs...more freebies to the masses...the Dems better find some way to dethrone Trump before the 2020 elections...

 

Shifty Adam, Dem from California, is the poster boy for everything wrong with American politics. He has no thought or motivation except to get Trump impeached...be careful what you wish for...????

“Shifty Adam, Dem from California, is the poster boy for everything wrong with American politics”

 

A white supremacist Russian puppet in the Oval Office is the poster boy for what’s wrong with American politics.

 

Schiff is doing his part to investigate and expose the crimes that lead to this mess.

 

Unlike his predecessor, Nunes, who actively blocked legitimate Congressional investigation of the President and went further by parading information handed him by the WH as if it were some shocking discovery to undermine the investigation.

 

 

[Boon Mee]

Unbelievable. 

Endless witch hunts 

Boggles the mind... 

[Chomper Higgot]

8 minutes ago, Trouble said:

Seems to me that before all these committees start wasting too much money on investigation they should wait for the conclusion of the Mueller investigation and a report.  Seems like they could be wasting a lot of time going off in all directions without first finding out what Mueller found.

Congress are at last performing their Constitutional duty to keep the President in check.

 

The days of the GOP lead Congress turning a blind eye to or covering up Trump’s crimes are done.

[Tug]

Some posters have that trump delusion syndrome bad hope they find a cure soon!!   Lol

[mtls2005]

17 minutes ago, Trouble said:

Seems to me that before all these committees start wasting too much money on investigation they should wait for the conclusion of the Mueller investigation and a report.  Seems like they could be wasting a lot of time going off in all directions without first finding out what Mueller found.

 

Congress, unlike the trump administration, is capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time.

 

Knock yourself out: https://www.congress.gov/search?q={"source"%3A"legislation"%2C"congress"%3A116}

[Chomper Higgot]

1 minute ago, Tug said:

Some posters have that trump delusion syndrome bad hope they find a cure soon!!   Lol

To be honest, I’d love to sit down face to face with one of these guys and discuss how it is they can turn a blind eye to crimes, attacks on the Construction and treason that are in plain sight.

 

I’d love to hear it first hand.

 

[mtls2005]

64 Percent Of U.S. Voters Say Trump Committed A Crime

 

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2603

 

 

 

[neeray]

10 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

Unbelievable. 

Endless witch hunts 

Boggles the mind... 

"Boggles the mind" !!!

Yes, it boggles the mind to imagine how one man could have so many valid investigations stacked up against him in the short period of two years and a bit. Never before. And probably never again.

Trump is an anomaly for a U.S. President.

[quandow]

1 hour ago, neeray said:

He'll be remembered but not the way a president likes to be remembered.

Build a thousand bridges, nobody calls you a bridge builder.

Make a thousand buildings, nobody calls you a building builder.

Suck one <deleted> and you are a <deleted> sucker forever.

[EVENKEEL]

20 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

To be honest, I’d love to sit down face to face with one of these guys and discuss how it is they can turn a blind eye to crimes, attacks on the Construction and treason that are in plain sight.

 

I’d love to hear it first hand.

 

As soon as they get over their TDS, they should have a full recovery of their senses.

[Puchaiyank]

18 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

To be honest, I’d love to sit down face to face with one of these guys and discuss how it is they can turn a blind eye to crimes, attacks on the Construction and treason that are in plain sight.

 

I’d love to hear it first hand.

 

We could start with Hillary's destruction of subpoenaed documents...which was a clear attempt to obstruct justice to avoid prosecution...

[mtls2005]

8 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

As soon as they get over their TDS, they should have a full recovery of their senses.

^ When all you can do is accuse someone of TDS you've lost the plot. Better to jsut take your ball and go home. No one wants to play with you.

 

7 minutes ago, Puchaiyank said:

We could start with Hillary's destruction of subpoenaed documents...which was a clear attempt to obstruct justice to avoid prosecution...

^ BREAKING NEWS: Hillary is not President. Now shuffle off to Comet Pizza while the grown-ups talk.

[Chomper Higgot]

4 minutes ago, Puchaiyank said:

We could start with Hillary's destruction of subpoenaed documents...which was a clear attempt to obstruct justice to avoid prosecution...

But.... but ...but .... Hillary!

[Puchaiyank]

2 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

^ When all you can do is accuse someone of TDS you've lost the plot. Better to jsut take your ball and go home. No one wants to play with you.

 

^ BREAKING NEWS: Hillary is not President. Now shuffle off to Comet Pizza while the grown-ups talk.

"Not Breaking News"...this entire desperate hunt for some charge that will stick to Trump is directly related to the mass hysteria created by Hillary not being crowned queen of America...

[Chomper Higgot]

7 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

As soon as they get over their TDS, they should have a full recovery of their senses.

What I have suggested is a willingness to sit face to face in order to discuss and understand.

 

The reason I feel face to face is important is it removes the mask of anonymity from behind which so many trite insults are used as a means to avoid honest discussion.

[EVENKEEL]

1 minute ago, mtls2005 said:

^ When all you can do is accuse someone of TDS you've lost the plot. Better to jsut take your ball and go home. No one wants to play with you.

 

^ BREAKING NEWS: Hillary is not President. Now shuffle off to Comet Pizza while the grown-ups talk.

Nope, it's infected many folks to the point of irrational thinking. When collusion and  conspiracy charges are debunked, next they will be investigating if Trump has any overdue books.

[Puchaiyank]

3 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

But.... but ...but .... Hillary!

Yes, dear Hillary, Hillary, Hillary...a stain on the rule if law, Dept. Of Justice, and this debacle is not over yet.

[quandow]

12 minutes ago, Puchaiyank said:

We could start with Hillary's destruction of subpoenaed documents...which was a clear attempt to obstruct justice to avoid prosecution...

I absolutely HATE Hillary and argued til the cows came home when it was relevant.

NOW we can't use the "Well, she did it, why can't Trump?" defense. That ship has sailed, let it go.

[mtls2005]

18 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

next they will be investigating if Trump has any overdue books.

 

Yeah. trump reading a book. Good one.

 

 

[EVENKEEL]

1 minute ago, mtls2005 said:

 

Yeah. trump reading a book. Good one.

 

 

Typical, edit out parts you don't like. Must have hit a nerve.

[mtls2005]

25 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Nope, it's infected many folks to the point of irrational thinking. When collusion and  conspiracy charges are debunked, next they will be investigating if Trump has any overdue books.

 

Yeah. trump reading a book. Good one.

 

(Just didn't want to embarrass you by using the entire deranged quote.)

[Chomper Higgot]

12 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

 

Yeah. trump reading a book. Good one.

 

 

I think you need to withdraw your unwarranted slur.

 

The suggestion was Trump having any overdue books.

 

There was no suggestion implied or otherwise that he might have read or attempted to read them.