Schiff says House will make a criminal referral of Trump ally Erik Prince for possible perjury [View all]
Source: Washington Post
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that his panel would make a criminal referral to the Justice Department regarding potential false testimony by Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of the private military contractor Blackwater and an ally of President Trump. "The evidence is so weighty that the Justice Department needs to consider this," Schiff said during a Washington Post Live event.
Among other things, Schiff pointed to a meeting that took place nine days before Trump took office between Prince and a Russian financier close to Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Seychelles islands.
Prince later told congressional officials examining Russia's interference in the presidential election that the meeting happened by chance and was not taken at the behest of the incoming administration -- testimony that congressional Democrats now think was false. Prince told special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigators a version of the Seychelles meeting that is at odds in several key respects with his sworn testimony to the House Intelligence Committee in November 2017.
"We know from the Mueller report not that that was not a chance meeting," Schiff told Post reporter Robert Costa during an interview at the event.
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