Manafort's cooperation agreement does not include matters involving the Trump campaign.
Podesta’s misdeeds have been referred to New York prosecutors, by Mueller.
“Various employees of Companies A and B understood that they were receiving direction from MANAFORT and President Yanukovych, not the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine.”
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has referred cases on a group of prominent American lobbyists, including Tony Podesta, to federal prosecutors in New York.
Mueller also referred former Obama White House General Counsel Greg Craig and Vin Weber to the New York office.
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Becoming a Word Sleuth: Anonymity works sometimes, but forensic linguists are a pesky lot. An English professor @Vassar (linguistics sleuth) correctly exposed @Newsweek’s Joe Klein as the anonymous author of a novel on Bill Clinton's first run. npr.org/2018/09/09/646…
ID’ing Kaczynski as the author of an anonymous manifesto helped lead to his conviction.
Fitzgerald and Leonard worked on the JonBenét Ramsey case, too, helping in 2006 to rule out someone who falsely confessed to killing her in 1996.
“A lot of people can be amateur linguists. But it really takes someone studying the field, knowing the field, having a true appreciation of language usage, that I believe makes the best forensic linguist.“
“It's not a part-time gig. It has to be taken as a full-time, serious profession.”
"You can learn a lot from looking at 1 doc — what's called linguistic demographic profiling,"—Robert Leonard, Dir. of the graduate prog in forensic linguistics @HofstraU, w/Fitzgerald, co-director of their Institute for Forensic Linguistics, Threat Assessment/Strategic Analysis.
.@JFitzJourney is a forensic linguist and 20-year veteran of the FBI who proves not all linguistics work is sleepy or for nerds; he helped break open the case of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski in 1996.
Check him out.🇺🇸
“A lot of people can be amateur linguists. But it really takes someone studying the field, knowing the field, having a true appreciation of language usage, that I believe makes the best forensic linguist.“
“It's not a part-time gig. It has to be taken as a full-time, serious profession.”
“Goldman Sachs helped facilitate a large-scale financial scandal in Malaysia through the government-run strategic development company 1Malaysia Development Berhad.” video.img.ria.ru/Out/MP3/201809…