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Barrack Trial As UAE Agent
He Calls Cassis Citing
Kushner Now US Says Just
Loyalty
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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EDNY MEDIA ROOM,
Oct 21 –
Thomas Barrack
and Matthew
Grimes,
indicted for
illegal
lobbying for
the United
Arab Emirates,
were arraigned
on July 26,
2021 before
U.S. District
Court for the
Eastern
District of
New York
Magistrate
Judge Sanket
Bulsara. Inner
City Press
live tweeted
it here
(and podcast here)
On
October 21,
the defense
called as a witness
Brady Cassis,
an
associate at
Paul Hasting
in DC. He was
present and
took laptop
notes at the
June 20, 2019
DOJ interview
of Barrack.
But the US
immediately
opposed admission
of the notes
that he took.
Judge Brian
M. Cogan sent
the jurors to
the jury room
in order to
hear argument.
At 2:22
pm,
Judge Cogan said
he would be
admitting the
notes, and
allowing
cross-examination
on the issues.
Then it was said,
We are not
getting to Mr.
Barrack's
testimony
today.
At 2:44 pm,
on direct
examination by
Barrack's
lawyer, Cassis
said he did
not hear the
government
representatives
at the
interview ask
Barrack if he
used other
applications,
or downloaded
one. He
also said the
US did not
record the
session. But
it shows up
in the
indictment...
At 3:10
pm, more of
Cassis' notes
were shown,
about Bannon's
relationship
with MBZ and
"Erik Prince / Blackwater;" and
a flight to
the Middle
East including
"the actor Rob
Lowe."
After
Cassis read
off his noted
about Jared
Kushner saying
"legacy will
be Palestine -
Israel" and
that the rest
of the Middle
East was
"inconsequention,"
the prosecutor
on
cross-examination
tried to show
the Cassis
only
remembered
what he wrote
down. He emphasized
that as a
lawyer -
albeit a $250,000
a year
associated who
was
sent out to
get coffee - Cassis
was found to be
loyal to
Barrack. Watch
this site.
Order
on Patreon here.
US filing
on Patreon here.
On
FARA, full
order on
Patreon here.
Analysis:
Because of the
possibility of
(success)
appeal to any
conviction
under Section
951, on
a claim
that the jurors
confused it
with FARA, the
attempt is
made to keep
FARA out of testimony
as much as
possible. But what
about
the jury
instructions?
Watch this
site.
Watch
this site -
and this Sept
30 vlog,
and Twitter
Space here. Oct
4 vlog here.
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