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Deripaska once hired [[Paul Manafort]] as a political adviser. In an affidavit attached to the July 2017 warrant application, an FBI agent said he reviewed tax returns for a company controlled by Manafort and his wife that showed a $10 million loan from Deripaska.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-manafort/manafort-had-10-million-loan-from-russian-oligarch-court-filing-idUSKBN1JN2YF</ref> Mueller’s indictment of Manafort makes no mention of Deripaska. Prof. [[Alan Dershowitz]] said he believes Mueller has a [[conflict of interest]] because Mueller's FBI previously accepted financial help from a Russian that is, at the very least, a witness in the current probe; {{Quotebox|"The real question becomes whether it was proper to leave [Deripaska] out of the Manafort indictment, and whether that omission was to avoid the kind of transparency that is really required by the law.'}}
Deripaska once hired [[Paul Manafort]] as a political adviser. In an affidavit attached to the July 2017 warrant application, an FBI agent said he reviewed tax returns for a company controlled by Manafort and his wife that showed a $10 million loan from Deripaska.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-manafort/manafort-had-10-million-loan-from-russian-oligarch-court-filing-idUSKBN1JN2YF</ref> Mueller’s indictment of Manafort makes no mention of Deripaska. Prof. [[Alan Dershowitz]] said he believes Mueller has a [[conflict of interest]] because Mueller's FBI previously accepted financial help from a Russian that is, at the very least, a witness in the current probe; {{Quotebox|"The real question becomes whether it was proper to leave [Deripaska] out of the Manafort indictment, and whether that omission was to avoid the kind of transparency that is really required by the law.'}}
===Joke indictments===
At various points in the Mueller investigation when Congressional hearings and public opinion have questioned the need for the investigation as [[Obama administration]] wrongdoing was uncovered, Mueller has issued "joke indictments" against Russian citizens and entities who will never stand trial in the United States.
Charges against Paul Manafort are wholly unrelated to Russia collusion.
Charges against Michael Flynn are based on alleged false statements made by Flynn to the FBI; the FBI agent who interviewed Flynn reported Flynn did not. Andrew McCabe is currently under criminal investigation for possibly altering or destroying the interview report.
Charges against [[George Papadopoulos]] remain mysterious, as it remains unclear whether or not Papadopoulos himself was an FBI informant or naive pup fresh who volunteered for the Trump campaign days before he was compromised in sting operation arranged by the US intelligence community.
==See also==
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