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Yet, that is exactly what Rosenstein and [[Andrew Weissmann]] did in a plea agreement with Mikerin. (See in ''The Hill''’s report, the third document embedded at the bottom, titled “Mikerin Plea Deal.”) No RICO, no extortion, no fraud — and the plea agreement does not mention any of the extortions in 2009 and 2010, before CFIUS approved Rosatom’s acquisition of Uranium One. Mikerin just plead guilty to a nominal “money laundering” conspiracy charge, insulating him from a longer sentence. Thus, he got a term of only four years’ for a major [[national security]] crime.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/10/uranium-one-deal-obama-administration-doj-hillary-clinton-racketeering/ </ref>
Yet, that is exactly what Rosenstein and [[Andrew Weissmann]] did in a plea agreement with Mikerin. (See in ''The Hill''’s report, the third document embedded at the bottom, titled “Mikerin Plea Deal.”) No RICO, no extortion, no fraud — and the plea agreement does not mention any of the extortions in 2009 and 2010, before CFIUS approved Rosatom’s acquisition of Uranium One. Mikerin just plead guilty to a nominal “money laundering” conspiracy charge, insulating him from a longer sentence. Thus, he got a term of only four years’ for a major [[national security]] crime.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/10/uranium-one-deal-obama-administration-doj-hillary-clinton-racketeering/ </ref>
==Manafort case==
Rosenstein oversaw an investigation of [[Paul Manafort]] between 2005 and 2008 for alleged unregistered foreign lobbying, money laundering, and tax evasion. [[Tony Podesta]] of the Podesta Group and [[Greg Craig]] were also involved. Rosenstein dropped the case when the Podesta Group and [[John Podesta]] became closely aligned with the [[Hillary Clinton]] primary campaign, Greg Craig became President [[Barack Obama]]'s [[White House]] General Counsel, and Paul Manafort was hired to manage Sen. [[John McCain]]'s presidential campaign.
Rosenstein reopened the case and authorized Special Counsel [[Robert Mueller]] to pursue it ten years later in a secret memorandum attached to the [[Trump-Russia investigation]]. Although the case alleged Manafort acted as an unregistered agent of the [[Ukrainian]] government, the case had no baring on alleged Russian collusion or meddling in the [[2016 presidential election]].
==See also==
==See also==