Unlike Donald Trump’s presidential administration, the Mueller team does not leak and avoids drama entirely, despite Trump’s constant Twitter attacks to discredit the investigation against him.
New: Mueller's team says that discovery materials shared with defense attorneys associated with Concord Management (the company owned by Putin's Chef) appeared online in October in an apparent "disinformation campaign" to discredit the Russia investigation https://t.co/R9dM9CguJh
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 30, 2019
Despite those efforts by the Mueller team, evidence from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election in order to benefit candidate Trump mysteriously appeared in a tweet in October 2018. Now, Mueller is filing charges.
CNBC reports:
‘Special counsel Robert Mueller claimed Wednesday that evidence in one of his criminal cases related to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign was recently used in an online disinformation campaign, apparently to discredit Mueller’s investigations.
‘Mueller made that allegation in a court filing in his criminal case pending against Concord Management and Consulting, a Russian company owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the oligarch who is known as “Putin’s chef.”
Interesting: Mueller's team notes that some of the discovery shared with Concord Management 'appears to have been altered.' https://t.co/3pDkzhFxCP
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 30, 2019
The Twitter account has since been removed from the social media platform and an investigation into the public release has been conducted. Unsurprisingly, the Twitter account led to a server in Russia. Fortunately, the materials published were not taken through a cyberattack, but used non-sensitive information Mueller provided to the attorneys of Concord Management, one of the Russian-owned firms named in the investigation.
‘The special counsel’s office said that the online account used to publish the discovery materials was registered by a user with an internet address that resides in Russia. The FBI has found no evidence that U.S. Government servers, including ines used by Mueller’s office, had been hacked.’
Mueller says evidence against Russian firm was used in 'disinformation campaign' apparently to discredit his Russia probe. He made allegation against Concord Management & Consulting, a company owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who's known as "Putin's chef."https://t.co/Fn7ahBp8eg
— Hollie Wolfen (@HollieWolfen) January 30, 2019
Concord Management is accused of helping to fund the social media campaign employed by Russia to help Trump win the election and to demonize Hillary Clinton. Just like the Wikileaks dump of the DNC and Podesta emails in 2016, information was altered in order to discredit Mueller’s investigation. According to Mueller’s filing:
‘”the subsequent investigation has revealed that certain non-sensitive discovery materials in the defense’s possession appear to have been altered and disseminated as part of a disinformation campaign aimed (apparently) at discrediting ongoing investigations into Russian interference in the U.S. political system.'”
Concord is run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is known as “Putin’s chef” because Russian President Vladimir Putin has hosted dinners at Prigozhin’s restaurants.
Lawyer for ‘Putin’s Chef’ Claims Unfair Prosecution by Mueller https://t.co/9V3sNcOekc
— Nguyen #fbpe #fbr (@haaohaoo) January 23, 2019
Following the long-established rules of a disinformation campaign, a common tactic used in Russia to affect public sentiment during elections and other important events, the documents released were not only altered, but were suggested to be something they were not.
‘The fact that the webpage contained numerous irrelevant files suggest that the person who created the webpage used their knowledge of the non-sensitive discovery to make it appear as though the irrelevant files contained on the webpage were the sum total evidence of ‘IRA and Russian collusion’ gathered by law enforcement in this matter in an apparent effort to discredit the investigation.’
At this time, servers belonging to the U.S. government and Mueller’s team specifically were not found to have been hacked.
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