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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.'}}

===Ham sandwich indictments===

===Show trials===

At various points in the Mueller probe 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.<ref>https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/02/muellers-investigation-a-farce-files-joke-indictment-against-russian-trolls</ref>

At various points in the Mueller probe 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.<ref>https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/02/muellers-investigation-a-farce-files-joke-indictment-against-russian-trolls</ref>