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Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)
Fri Feb 24, 2023, 05:49 PM Feb 2023

Now that an investigation of Jared/Ivanka's financial corruption in WH is coming..

.....this is the question to be asked.

Will their ETHICS ATTORNEY in their WH time be called to provide testimony?

The ethics attorney, of course, is Jamie Gorelick. Mentor to Merrick Garland, close friend still. He was her deputy when she was at DoJ. AKA "Mistress of Disaster".

Any investigation into her clients' corruption must ask her for testimony.

It was Gorelick who got Jared his security clearance, incidentally.

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Now that an investigation of Jared/Ivanka's financial corruption in WH is coming.. (Original Post) Grasswire2 Feb 2023 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Feb 2023 #1
They're Above The Law Too SoCalDavidS Feb 2023 #2
RE Sec clearances for Jared and Ivanka underthematrix Feb 2023 #3
Wait. What? Is this a real thing?! If it's old news I missed it. If it's today's news I missed it. msfiddlestix Feb 2023 #4
see celerity"s highly detailed thread at this link Grasswire2 Feb 2023 #5
info posted by Celerity on Gorelick Grasswire2 Feb 2023 #6
There should be some prize for Celerity's posts lately. They're amazing. Scrivener7 Feb 2023 #10
✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ n/t msfiddlestix Feb 2023 #12
Thank you... I'll check it out now.. n/t msfiddlestix Feb 2023 #11
My bet is that Donnie Dipshit was getting a cut of their grift money world wide wally Feb 2023 #7
nothing is too low for mobsters Grasswire2 Feb 2023 #8
K&R for the post and the discussion. crickets Feb 2023 #9
After reading the head spinning background on Gorelick, it sort of explains a lot regarding... msfiddlestix Feb 2023 #13

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underthematrix

(5,811 posts)
3. RE Sec clearances for Jared and Ivanka
Fri Feb 24, 2023, 06:07 PM
Feb 2023

Rachel covered this issue quite a bit and in the end they couldn't get cleared thru the system so TRUMP cleared them, which he was able to do as POTUS.

msfiddlestix

(7,286 posts)
4. Wait. What? Is this a real thing?! If it's old news I missed it. If it's today's news I missed it.
Fri Feb 24, 2023, 06:09 PM
Feb 2023

Guess I'll need to go to the google machine?

Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)
6. info posted by Celerity on Gorelick
Fri Feb 24, 2023, 06:25 PM
Feb 2023

anti-privacy

actively fought student loan reforms as a lobbyist

was a lobbyist for Big Pharma and helped weaken opioid drug oversight enforcement

Jared-Ivanka “Ethics” Lawyer Helped Pharma Weaken Opioid Enforcement

https://www.republicreport.org/2017/jared-ivanka-ethics-lawyer-helped-pharma-weaken-opioid-enforcement/




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Gorelick

Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)

Even though she had no previous training nor experience in finance, Gorelick was appointed Vice Chairman of Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) from 1997 to 2003. She served alongside former Clinton Administration official Franklin Raines. During that period, Fannie Mae developed a $10 billion accounting scandal.

On March 25, 2002, Business Week interviewed Gorelick about the health of Fannie Mae. Gorelick is quoted as saying, "We believe we are managed safely. We are very pleased that Moody's gave us an A-minus in the area of bank financial strength – without a reference to the government in any way. Fannie Mae is among the handful of top-quality institutions." One year later, government regulators accused Fannie Mae of improper accounting "to the tune of $9 billion" in unrecorded losses.

In an additional scandal concerning falsified financial transactions that helped the company meet earnings targets for 1998, a "manipulation" that triggered multimillion-dollar bonuses for top executives, Gorelick received $779,625.

A 2006 report of an investigation by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight into Fannie Mae's accounting practices and corporate governance revealed that from 1998 to 2002 Gorelick received a total of $26.5 million in income from Fannie Mae.


9/11 Commission

According to Gorelick's op-ed letter in the Washington Post she states that: "At last week's hearing, Attorney General John Ashcroft, facing criticism, asserted that 'the single greatest structural cause for September 11 was the wall that segregated criminal investigators and intelligence agents' and that I built that wall through a March 1995 memo." However, the report from the 9/11 Commission, co-authored by Gorelick, asserts that the 'wall' limiting the ability of federal agencies to cooperate had existed since the 1980s and is in fact not one singular wall but a series of restrictions created over the course of over twenty years.

Conflict of interest

A 1995 Department of Justice memorandum states that the procedures her memorandum put in place for the investigation of the 1993 WTC bombing "go beyond what is legally required...[to] prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation." The wall intentionally exceeded the requirements of FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978) for the purposes of criminal investigations, as well as the then-existing federal case law. These rules were, shortly after their creation, expanded to regulate such communications in future counter-terrorism investigations.

Gorelick eventually recused herself from reviewing her own role in the regulation of information about terrorist activities.


Lawyer for Duke University

Gorelick was added in February 2006 to Duke University's defense team after the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case scandal. The University faced claims by unaccused members of the team that they "railroaded 47 Duke University students as either principals or accomplices." Gorelick and her law firm left the defense team in July 2011 after Judge Beatty denied Duke's motions to dismiss and let the lawsuits proceed in April.



Jamie Gorelick: Amazon's Anti-Union Shadow Adviser At The DOJ

https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/jamie-gorelick-amazons-anti-union-shadow-adviser-at-the-doj/


Ivanka and Jared’s Ethics Lawyer Somehow Wins Ethics Award

https://www.republicreport.org/2017/ivanka-jareds-ethics-lawyer-somehow-wins-ethics-award/

msfiddlestix

(7,286 posts)
13. After reading the head spinning background on Gorelick, it sort of explains a lot regarding...
Sat Feb 25, 2023, 10:30 AM
Feb 2023

the current "investigations". I come back to the question of the implication Ivanka and Jarrod's financial corruption being investigated.at any time. Which entity is doing any investigation? Or which legal entity do you expect for an investigation into their financial corruption crimes to take this on? DOJ? Is there reporting currently that this is occurring?

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