FBI Is Investigating Florida Company Where Whitaker Was Advisory-Board Member

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Source: The Wall Street Journal.

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FBI Is Investigating Florida Company Where Whitaker Was Advisory-Board Member

Active case is being handled by FBI Miami office; acting attorney general oversees FBI

By Mark Maremont and James V. Grimaldi

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Nov. 9, 2018 4:39 p.m. ET

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting a criminal investigation of a Florida company accused of scamming millions from customers during the period that Matthew Whitaker, the acting U.S. attorney general, served as a paid advisory-board member, according to an alleged victim who was contacted by the FBI and other people familiar with the matter.

The investigation is being handled by the Miami office of the FBI and by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, according to an email sent to the alleged victim last year by...

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SCOOP: Firm with ties to the acting U.S. attorney general is under investigation by the FBI, an agency that is overseen, of course, by -- yes, that's right -- the acting attorney general. w/ @markmaremont

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Here's the email confirming the FBI criminal probe of an alleged scam company with ties to acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker....who now oversees the FBI. w/ @JamesVGrimaldi https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-is-investigating-florida-company-where-whitaker-was-advisory-board-member-1541799564 … via @WSJ

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[YessirAtsaFact]

1. You can't make up stuff that is this f'd up

If it was the plot of a novel or movie, critics would slam it for being unbelievable.

[YessirAtsaFact]

2. Did Trump not know or did he just not care?

???

[DeminPennswoods]

10. Trump only knows what he sees on Fox News,

meaning it's doubtful.

[louis c]

3. Lock Him the Fuck Up

No wonder Trump, Kushner and the Trump people are so interested in prison reform. It's in their own self interest.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. FBI Director Wray: Welcome, sir, and I hope your time as Acting Attorney General is

FBI Director Wray: Welcome, sir, and I hope your time as Acting Attorney General is

Whitaker: AM I FREE TO LEAVE

Wray: . . . .

Whitaker: I DO NOT CONSENT TO ANY SEARCHES AM I FREE TO LEAVE

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[thbobby]

5. trump is a manure magnet

Crap being drawn to crap. Wherever trump goes, criminals follow. POTUS and company is an organized crime syndicate.

[dchill]

26. He's actually a manure seeker.

[Docreed2003]

6. So what you're saying is

Trump is attempting to appoint a partisan lackey to oversee the Trump investigation, who, conveniently will also be able to oversee his own investigation. Yeah that sounds about right for this administration.

[diva77]

8. Thanks for summing that one up. I wonder whether vertigo medication sales are booming.

[Docreed2003]

9. Beer wine and distilled spirits sure are!!

[diva77]

11. Ha! So true!!

[ResistantAmerican17]

14. Justice "I like beer"

Is probably salivating at the chance to weigh in on this shitshow, squarely on the side of the Cheeto shitgibbon.

[RockRaven]

7. I figured Rosenstein and Wray would be writing contemporaneous memos about each meeting/convo,

but I didn't think this was going to be the reason for that. Lordy.

Lordy, Lordy, Lordy. SMH.

[maxrandb]

22. Don't count on Wray or rosenstein. They're both Federalist Society scum

That fucking organization needs to be treated like a criminal enterprise

[RockRaven]

23. But they are also ass-coverers who know they will have to testify some day.

Comey (also no hero) said of Rosenstein "Rod is a survivor" and did not mean it as a compliment.

They've seen other people get nailed for misrepresenting what was said in a meeting, and they've seen people get nailed for not being sufficiently candid, and they've seen people get blamed for decisions they had nothing to do with. Out of pure self-interest they will document every interaction so they cannot be made the fall guy for something inappropriate later by someone trying to spread blame around for some misdeed.

[watoos]

12. Why the questions and confusion?

An honest person would never be hired by Trump, his administration is full of crooks, this guy is just one more.

It appears to me he passed his loyalty, er, job interview.

[C_U_L8R]

13. Can this guy pass security clearance ?

[mucifer]

27. could trump? It seems that no longer matters

[Gothmog]

15. trump did not vet this person

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[NastyRiffraff]

16. WTF? Is it a job requirement that you have to be a criminal

to be in Trump's cabinet or a member of the senior WH staff?

[libdem4life]

17. It's what Trump does. He is a con man. Only con men/women will work for him. n/t

[EarthFirst]

18. Isn't 'potential for indictment' a qualification of a Trump appointment?

[Marie Marie]

19. Delicious!

I think I can now skip dinner.

[hay rick]

20. Small world department...

Another graduate of their advisory board is my congressman, Brian Mast. Story here: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/florida-mast-marketing-scandal-236103

[Glimmer of Hope]

21. Resign or lock him up?

He is a joke.

[dalton99a]

24. Kick

[mahatmakanejeeves]

25. "The victims of this scam -- which fooled inventors into emptying out their savings...."

VacanciesReformHatOf1998 Retweeted:

The victims of this scam -- which fooled inventors into emptying out their savings for "patent help" that never came -- were flabbergasted to learn that one of the ppl involved was now the acting U.S. attorney general.

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Said one former World Patent Marketing customer who lost $77,000 of Whitaker: “It’s really upsetting to know that guy will be attorney general. It’s so offensive. It’s like a stab in the back.”

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