Special Counsel
January 3, 2018. PAUL J. MANAFORT, JR., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, ROD J. ROSENSTEIN, and ROBERT S. MUELLER III, Defendants. Lawsuit filed by Paul Manafort against the Acting Attorney General and Special Counsel in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, arguing they do not have the authority to prosecute him.
December 8, 2017. Status Report. Report filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in regards to the criminal indictment of U.S.A. v. Paul J. Manafort, Jr. and Richard W. Gates III.
December 4, 2017. Government's Opposition to the Motion of Defendant Paul J. Manafort, Jr.'s Motion to Modify Conditions of Release. Memorandum filed in the U.S. District Court for the Dicstrict of Columbia in regards to the criminal indictment of U.S.A. v. Paul J. Manafort, Jr. and Richard W. Gates III.
December 1, 2017. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MICHAEL T. FLYNN, Defendant. Plea Agreement filed in the U.S. District Court for the Dicstrict of Columbia.
December 1, 2017. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MICHAEL T. FLYNN, Defendant. Criminal Statement of Offense filed in the U.S. District Court for the Dicstrict of Columbia.
November 30, 2017. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MICHAEL T. FLYNN, Defendant. Criminal Information filed in the U.S. District Court for the Dicstrict of Columbia.
October 31, 2017. Government's Memorandum in Support of Conditions of Release, Complex Case Designation and Notice of Intent to Use Certain Bank Records. Memorandum filed in the U.S. District Court for the Dicstrict of Columbia in regards to the criminal indictment of U.S.A. v. Paul J. Manafort, Jr. and Richard W. Gates III.
October 30, 2017. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. PAUL J. MANAFORT, JR. and RICHARD W. GATES III, Defendants. Arrest Warrant.
October 27, 2017. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. PAUL J. MANAFORT, JR. and RICHARD W. GATES III, Defendants. Criminal indictment filed in the U.S. District Court for the Dicstrict of Columbia.
October 5, 2017. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS, Defendant. Transcript of the arraignment/plea agreement hearing before the Honorable Randolph D. Moss, United States District Court Judge.
October 5, 2017. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS, Defendant. Plea Agreement filed in the U.S. District Court for the Dicstrict of Columbia.
October 5, 2017. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS, Defendant. Criminal Statement of Offense filed in the U.S. District Court for the Dicstrict of Columbia.
October 3, 2017. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS, Defendant. Criminal Information filed in the U.S. District Court for the Dicstrict of Columbia.
Transcripts
October 5, 2017. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS, Defendant. Transcript of the arraignment/plea agreement hearing before the Honorable Randolph D. Moss, United States District Court Judge.
August 22, 2017. Interview of Glenn Simpson from Fusion GPS by the Senate Judiciary Committee. This transcript was unilaterally released by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) following resistance by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to publish the transcript, despite Fusion GPS urging it to be made public.
Senate Letters
November 15, 2017. Letter to Felix Sater from Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) asking him to appear before the committee for an interview and for documents related to the possibility of a Trump Tower real estate deal in Moscow and efforts to get Donald Trump elected president. Sater is a Russian-born real estate developer based in New York who once pled guilty to racketeering in relation to a major stock fraud scheme with the Russian mafia. He is also a long-time business associate of Donald Trump.
November 15, 2017. Letter to Margaret Kunstsler from Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) requesting all communications with the Trump campaign as well as communications about emails hacked by Russia. Kunstler is the lawyer for WikiLeaks and identified to the Trump campaign as a contact for communications.
February 14, 2017. Letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and James Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, from Senate Democrats, urging him to "immediately appoint an independent Special Counsel to investigate collusion with the Russian government by General Flynn and other Trump campaign, transition, and Administrative officials." This letter was issued the day after Flynn's resignation.
House of Representatives Letters
January 9, 2018. Letter to Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, from Democratic leaders in the House. This letter requests a bipartisan meeting to address serious concerns about Russia's attempt to interfere in future elections and the "lack of action by the Trump Administration and the House Republicans in responding to this core threat to our democracy."
December 6, 2017. Letter to Ranking Member, Elijah Cummings (D-M.D.), from Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, in response to Cummings' letter. Gowdy dismissed the idea of opening an investigation into Michael Flynn and referred Cummings to the Special Counsel.
November 7, 2017. Letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, from Minority Members of the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, regarding his upcoming appearance for an oversight hearing and questions he will be asked. The letter first raises questions that testimony from George Papadopoulos contradicts Sessions' prior sworn testimony. The letter also lists a number of letters sent by the Minority Members to Sessions that were ignored.
October 18, 2017. Letter to Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, from Elijah Cummings (D-M.D.), Ranking Member, requesting the issuance of a subpoena to compel the White House to produce documents previously requested on March 22, 2017, relating to former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. The letter also requests subpoenas to Flynn's company and two other companies he conducted business with.
July 12, 2017. Letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions from Minority Members of the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, requesting information about the settlement of United States v Prevezon Holdings Ltd., et al. two days before trial was set to begin. Prevezon is a Russian-linked organization that was about to stand trial for charges of laundering Russian money. As noted in the letter, "the facts underlying the Prevezon case - including the death of Sergei Magnitsky, the Russian lawyer who uncovered the fraud, in a Russian prison - led to the passage of unprecedented sanctions against the Russian officials thought to be complicit." The letter also notes that Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, was working on the Prevezon case "before President Trump summarily fired him." The lawyer engaged as counsel for Denis Katsyv, owner of Prevezon, was Natalia Veselnitskaya, who had met with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016.
May 12, 2017. Letter to Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General, from John Conyers (D-MI) and Elijah Cummings (D-MD), expressing concern over Attorney General Jeff Sessions' role in the termination of FBI Director James Comey, despite Session's recusal. The letter also requests information and documents regarding the firing of Comey.
May 9, 2017. Letter to Rod J. Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General, and Andrew G. McCabe, Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, from all House Democrats, requesting that certain documents be preserved in response to the termination of FBI Director James Comey. This letter was issued the same day that the President's termination of Comey was announced. The letter specficially requests that "all files, documents, memoranda and other materials involving the Department's and FBI's criminal investigation into matters related to Russian interference in our federal elections; collusion with individuals associated with the Trump campaign; and associated matters be preserved and placed off limits to any and all White House officials and staff and any other individuals, including Attorney General Sessions, who have recused themselves from the investigation." The letter also requests files related to "Director Comey's termination by the President" be preserved.
April 13, 2017. Letter to James Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Charles S. Phalen, Jr., Director of the National Background Investigations Bureau, from House Democrats, requesting that Jared Kushner's "interim top-secret security clearance be suspended pending a review of Mr. Kushner's compliance with the laws and regulation governing security clearances." The letter also requests that Mr. Kushner publicly disclose all meetings he had with foreign government officials during the presidential campaign.
Lawsuits
January 9, 2018. MICHAEL COHEN, Plaintiff, vs. BEAN LLC, d/b/a FUSION GPS, and GLENN SIMPSON, Defendants. Lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York.
January 9, 2018. MICHAEL COHEN, Plaintiff, vs. BUZZFEED, INC., BEN SMITH, KEN BENSINGER, MIRIAM ELDER, and MARK SCHOOFS, Defendants. Lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York.
January 3, 2018. PAUL J. MANAFORT, JR., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, ROD J. ROSENSTEIN, and ROBERT S. MUELLER III, Defendants. Lawsuit filed by Paul Manafort against the Acting Attorney General and Special Counsel in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, arguing they do not have the authority to prosecute him.
Miscellaneous
January 6, 2017. Background to "Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections": The Analytic Process and Cyber Incident Attribution. A report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Intelligence Council regarding a "declassified version of a highly classified assessment that has been provided to the President and to recipients approved by the president."
July 15, 2016. Hermitage Capital Management letter to the Foreign Agents Registration Unit (FARA). This letter urged an investigation into pro-Russian lobbying activities by Rinat Akhmetshin, Ron Dellums, Mark Cymrot, Howard Schweitzer, Chris Cooper and Natalia Veselnitskaya. The letter also describes activities by filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov and Dana Rohrabacher.
