Project Veritas Just Filed DOJ Complaint Against Bernie Sanders, and It's a Bunch of B.S.

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by Colin Kalmbacher | 9:18 pm, March 8th, 2018

The Project Veritas Action Fund just filed a 14-page complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice against the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign, thirteen Australian nationals and the Australian Labor Party. The complaint requests a criminal investigation of the named defendants but is more accurately described as a PR stunt than an actual complaint or lawsuit.

Drafted by Project Veritas’ legal counsel Benjamin Barr, the legal-ish document essentially cribs the language and structure of Robert Mueller‘s February 16 indictment of thirteen Russian nationals on various charges of conspiracy, wire fraud and identity theft. Barr’s complaint alleges the Sanders campaign conspired with the Australian Labor Party to defraud the United States government and that the Sanders campaign–along with the Australian Labor Party–made false statements to the United States.

On page 12 of the complaint, the summary of the conspiracy allegation reads, in relevant part:

To prove a prohibited conspiracy under Section 371, there must be evidence that individuals attempted to impair, impede, or defeat a government agency by dishonest means. Based on the facts agreed to in the Bernie 2016 Conciliation Agreement with the FEC, it appears there was a violation of Section 371. As to Bernie 2016, it engaged in a conspiracy with ALP to hide foreign national involvement with its campaign.

This is full-on, blinkered nonsense. The complaint spends an awful lot of time and ink laying out the activities of the Australian campaign volunteers, the Sanders’ campaign’s knowledge of those Australian volunteers, and the Sanders’ campaign’s agreement with the FEC. But when it comes to making actual allegations, the complaint quickly becomes conclusory.

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