Opinion: The Russian Probe continued investigation will most likely lead to more Obstruction of Justice from President Trump!

President Donald J. Trump are having real issues with the Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the Russian Probe. Clearly, the investigation who has had two closed doors sessions with son-in-law Jared Kushner, who sounded like a crispy crème softie and not like powerful man with to many jobs in the White House for his experience levels! Secondly, trying to make something sound like nothing, when you failed to disclosed it several of times. In addition, the SF-86 Forms and also the other Russian meetings failed to mention. Nevertheless, as the closed-sessions will not go public of yet, the will be more drip-drops of Russian connections to the New York Gang.

President Trump are having hard time with the Russian monies proven to building and investing in estate and properties in Florida. Also, oligarchs and lawyers who are used by Russian businesses have been used by Trump. So it is special that the next appointment to the Department of Justice has ties to the Russian Alfa Bank, he is Brian A. Benczkowski and than even the new White House Director Anthony Scarramucci has gotten funds through Russian businesses. It doesn’t matter where Trump goes, he knows someone who has earned monies or connections to Russia.

It is like that in the New York Gang, therefore the undisclosed meetings will show even more as EUROPOL are knitting together an investigation together with the Attorney General of New York, Eric Schneiderman to figure out the ties between Human Trafficking of Woman and the Trump Organization. Clearly, the New York Gang has more dark secrets, than just their possible shady deals of money laundering and questionable transactions.

So it seems strange to write like this an about sitting President and not a dreaded gang leader. But than on the hand. He wants everyone to pledge loyalty, so he has really shown his lacking character again when addressing his loyal Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sessions been with him since he was just a Senator from Alabama. A career politician who was a fringe politician with starch views, that fitted the now White House Advisor Stephen Bannon. Therefore, he was a nice spotted figure into the cabinet and become the AG of the United States. Still, he did early “Recuse” himself from the Russian Probe. That hurt the President, because he expected to have someone there to obstruct justice for him.

Jeff Sessions, couldn’t get involved and therefore after the firing of FBI Director James Comey, that was in the time when the FBI was asking for more funds for their investigation into the Probe. Therefore, as the investigation goes, the Senate Committee and the Special Counsel Mueller will dig deep into tax-returns, business transactions and all sort of activity the President don’t want the world to now about. It has been allegations, but this will verify the crimes and the collusion. Not only Steel’s golden showers in Moscow, but all sort of activity no future President should have ever done. That using the Italian Mob to stifle the builders and Polish Brigade to build the Trump Tower, while all construction workers was on strike, but the mobsters was pushing the workers at the site. That is back in history, but in present the New York Gang are feeling the pinch. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump has both hired attorneys, the same has Donald Trump Junior, as the Trump himself has a trio of unlucky representatives for himself.

But as the case is progressing so is the President frustration. He expected a loyal lapdog in Jeff Sessions, not someone who would be respecting of laws and following the institution of the Department of Justice. That is why he already got rid of Comey, because he didn’t obstruct the law for him. Trump cannot handle that the Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Junior are going into closed sessions with the Senate, even as Charles Grassley are giving way and not being strict on the possible meetings with the New York Gang. The Senate and GOP Senators are still helping the cause.

Though that is not enough for the President and his family. They need to get the ability to trigger mass sackings of Cabinet and Law Officials. They need to get rid of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, so they can have reasons for making him resign. Even if it would be a relief for the President to sack Sessions and than get rid of Mueller. The investigation would not stop, but through some hurdles. The obstruction of already getting rid of Comey, got acting McCabe in-charge of FBI, as no-one has been appointed to become FBI Director. The same sort of fate might happen when they know what happen to the loyal Trumpist Sessions. Who the President had no issue with discharging when it didn’t fit his program anymore. That was not making America Great, but saving the President’s ass.

There shouldn’t be any salvage, when the President would go to this step to avoid the investigation as the head will roll, all in favor of him. Surely, in his gangs of comrades with Russian Connections. He can find another brother who will sought his favor and be his loyal cadre. Even if Sessions was as loyal as it gets and would be discarded like cold-coffee. Just because he was wise and respected his Attorney General position. Not that I respect any of the acts of the man in-charge of Department of Justice and his fear for immigrants and hard-line crime embargoed sanctions. That is just a short explanation of the matter of acts that Sessions do.

Still, the Russian Probe is not making it easy for Trump, even as the many possible colluding important persons hasn’t been questioned like Robert Mercer or Stephen Bannon, who both became vital parts of the campaign. Neither, has more of the Trump Organization and former associates who could have important information about the Russian connects. Certainly, when Mueller and his team scans through the portfolio of documents, the pattern will surface and the people who was initial offering and doing will be seen. You can wonder the Capitol Hill Republicans know and what the Republican National Committee and Republican Party has knowledge of. As the private discussions proves that Paul Ryan knows, certainly Mitch McConnell and Reince Prebus must know something too. These are not people not talking and planning together. They know this and will work accordingly.

That the Russians who has done business with Trump for decades and saved his business most likely after the Atlantic City Casino’s went bankrupt and his fortune was dwindling away. Certainly, there was leeway for a salvation in Moscow. That is right now conspiracy, but with mounting debt and not had a genuine winning business-model in a decade. The Russian would be a grand scheme of promises and hope into a shrinking-in coffers. Oligarchs using fronts and American registered companies connected with and part of the Trump Organization, who could launder funds and secure use of dirty money in the open market. This would be a good-pay day for the one who tended to bankrupt and deplete his businesses.

For now that is a conspiracy, but could easily be the trick, because Trump isn’t that deep or wise. That is the proof of reason shadow-play with gender and other issues. While the burning revelations of Russian connections keeps coming in an evil-circle that the President cannot control. The Pardons, the Executive authority and the Presidency are not above the law. Even if the Congress for the moment are careless and letting it go. Not letting anything stick and making it hard like they did on Hillary Clinton and her mistake in Benghazi. If they did the same, the Republicans would have spent 800 hours in open hearings and with critical questions into the Russian Hacking and tampering of the Election 2016. Still, they don’t as they acting as accomplice to the matter and trying to shield themselves from the misfortune.

Trump, should not get off the hook. He has wished ill on everyone, now he is attacking the Attorney General to obstruct justice. Stop investigation and get a possibility to sack Mueller to. That would be a dream and also, in the mind of Trump a way of silencing the investigations. While this might only trigger more investigations and more scrutiny, as well be nail in the coffin. No more speculation, as Mike Flynn legacy linger in the balance of foreign suspect funds, the same does now appear for the Trump legacy and the Trump Organization, who is every single day studied and revealed the shadows of the reality. A reality that the President didn’t want to reveal, as he has kept most of that secret. Except for the show pieces and wished values of his self-esteem and supposed profits. That cannot be proven. Unless, the Tax Returns who haunts him and the knowledge of them are in the investigators who can see and study the transactions of questionable concern.

President Trump seem scared and afraid of the outcome and trying to find ways of stopping it. While he should know that his tactics and his attitude, neither his ways are not stopping it, but letting it do. What it do, because if he acts, it will only get worse and his fate will fail more and more. The leverage and the possible value of him will drop to null-and-void. President will risk the fate of majority of Republican’s position in the House and Senate, as their unfavorable Health Care Legislation as well as his reckless and ruthless acts against the state. Will show the true spirit of the President and his values. That he and his ego are more important than institutions. Also he are not to be questioned, just let him be. The American people shouldn’t accept this, but certain people will. Because of their misunderstood admiration of Trump. They don’t see that he can take it all away and give it all to the rich. While smiling and lying daily on the paycheck of the citizens. The proof is in pudding. The allegations will be studied and the possible breaches are there. Just like they we’re in the Trump University case. The bait and switch, could easily have been used previously and again.

The Russian Probe need to be the focus and the connections that we’re in the Trump Campaign and the years previous to it. The monies run through the Trump Organization and the businesses involved there. There are certainly enough of those to wonder if Trump and family know more Russians, than they know New Yorkers. Peace.

USA: Memorandum for Secretaries of the Military Departments Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – “Subject: Accession of Transgender Indviduals into the Military Services” (30.06.2017)

The New York Gang, apparently again not so transparent since Kushner, Manafort and Trump Junior are all having their Senate Hearings behind closed doors!

 

If ever President Trump complains about former FBI director James Comey or Attorney General Jeff Sessions, know that they had the courage and the capacity to be asked in public about their acts and their meetings that was involving the Russian Probe. Not that Sessions said much or could recall anything, at least he could sit there and take it like a man. I respect that part, not that I like the AG Sessions, but give credit where it is due.

On the other hand, the rest of the New York Gang, who had the famous June 2016 meeting are this week been called for public hearings and questioned by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Where Senator Grassley sadly has accepted that Jared Kushner, he is the man who can solve all crisis, Donald Trump Junior, the current chief of Trump Organization, and former Campaign Manager Paul Manafort will testify behind closed doors! They cannot be perceived as transparent ever again, they cannot even tell the truth under oath on C-Span.

What a weak brigade of gangsters, who cannot even take their plausible interactions with foreign officials and questions about their possible lies and ever changing stories into the public sphere. It is as if they got too much to hide and has only dropped a few tears, and not the whole bucket of water, but that is just how me sensei see it!

Not like the Trump Organization or the President likes transparency, if not he would have showed the world when running as nominee or even as Presidential Candidate the IRS Tax Returns, for himself and his business. However, with the shady backdrop of business transactions of the so-called empire. It would be more believable if it was not just a spreadsheet of possible values as been given ever since.

It is not like the son-in-law Kushner has all truthful in the paper-trial on the revised forms; there are always coming new loans and estates, businesses and people that he met. However, he still have security clearance and possibility to do as he please. The same has been done by AG Sessions, he did not disclose meeting with foreign officials when sworn-in. Therefore, the New York Gang is not about the transparency, not the one in the Presidents eye, Trump Junior who is so transparent, had to revise his story three times over the weekend about the Russian meeting, as more people connected became news.

So that these people are now behind closed doors and not sworn-in under oath as Jack Tapper reported yesterday is insane and show how little integrity and pride for the Republic the New York Gang, if they had nothing to hide. Why not release all call-logs, e-mail chains and all sort of data in combination with the questionable meetings with Sergey Kislyak and other Russian during the Trump Campaign. Why not release the documentation for instance on the financial transactions in/with Russia? That is if, you want to be up-front and has nothing to hide, but clearly you do, since you have no interest doing so in the past and neither today.

That is why the President blames both democrats and republicans on Capitol Hill for not supporting him. As if it is their issue, that the President has not been truthful and knows what troubles he is in. The Presidency might be powerful, but is not all-powerful. The President is neither a monarch nor God. Therefore, it times to drink the Kool-Aid and revise, maybe even come forward. It will cost, cost so much and the efforts to undermine the democracy and state should go. Not that they will, since they have it and they will not let it go.

We will not know what sort of intelligence or information that comes out of the closed-doors meeting in the senate. That will come later in reports, if not in drip-drops like everything in this matter. I hope that Robert Mueller, the Special Investigator into the case will find some insights and can dig deeper in the New York Gang. Therefore, the truth and the most likely collusion can come forward with all of the federal charges that the Trump Organization might have committed. Since it has been all hidden, until he took public office and were scrutinized.

We know of some dealings and some shady practices, some lacking payments of contractors, of salaries and even being behold to agreements. That has been shown, also that the Trump Tower was helped by mafia to withhold the work force in the midst of strikes. In addition, the frauds like Trump University and others, where the striking salesperson Trump used his name to trick people to buy into the “get-rich-scheme”. He cannot use the gig now in the same manner and a person like Mueller has fried bigger fish than him. I cannot wait to read his reports and his investigation documents. When they are released, whenever that might be, the whole operation and the details will shed light on the dark secrets the New York Gang has so desperately hidden. Peace.

Pardon me Trump, you are not above the law Part II

I have to continue since you are so persistent in your belief that you are greater and grander than the law. It should be insulting the American people and the Constitution to have such a President like you Trump. Who has the audacity to put himself on the pedestal and think he could do anything to anyone and then get away it with it. It is insulting and beneath the office and beneath the possible position your are holding at the moment. Donald J. Trump, you act like thief and act like disgrace in the White House. If you we’re innocent and your family we’re the same? Why need to be pardoned. If the Trump Campaign and the Trump Organization was clean of guilt, why need the pardon? Do you think the American people are that ignorant and stupid, to not see this. The whole world see it and how you are eaten inside by the guilt of your association and use of Russian questionable financial transaction to keep yourself afloat.

Because of this and your continues allegations and attacks on peers. Your misuse of power and your wish to undermine the American democracy and institutions. It is time to again. Go back in time, last time it was the advice Richard Nixon asked for days before his impeachment for obstruction against justice. The same sort of acts President Trump is currently doing and undermining the law as much as he can. Therefore I have to go back to a document based in 1998, when Law Professor Rotunda are writing to Judge Kenneth Starr on indictment. This was on the matter of then President Bill Clinton. But worth noting certain fragments of document to show the capacity President Trump has under current legislation. Not that he understands it, unless it 140 words or explained to him on ‘Fox and Friends’. Still, worth noting though!

For Example, if the President in a moment of passion slugs an irritating heckler, he has committed a criminal battery. But no one would suggest that the President should be removed from office simply because of an assault. Yet the President has no right to assault hecklers. If there is no recourse against the President, if he cannot be prosecuted for violating the criminal laws, he will be above the law. Clinton vs. Jones rejected such an immunity; instead, it emphatically agreed with the Eight Circuit that: “the President, like other officials, is subject to the same laws that apply to all citizens”. The “rational for official immunity is inapposite where only personal, private conduct by a President is a issue”. The President has no immunity in such a case. If the Constitution prevents the President from being indicted for violations of one or more federal crime statutes, even if those statutory violations are not impeachable offences, then the Constitution authorizes the President to be above the law. But the Constitution creates an Executive Branch with the President under sworn obligation to faithfully executive the law. The Constitution does not create an absolute Monarch above the law” (Rotunda, P: 5, 1998).

As Nixon vs. Sirica carefully noted: “Because impeachment is available against all ‘civil officers of the United States’ not merely against the President, it is difficult to understand how many immunites peculiar to the President can emanate by implication from the fact of impeachability”. Moreover, it would be anomalous and aberrant to interpret the Impeachment Clause to immunize the President for alleged criminal acts, some which occurred prior to the time he assumed the Presidency and all far removed from any of the President’s enumerated duties: witness tampering, destruction of documents, subornation of perjury perjury, illegal pay-offs” (Rotunda, P: 7, 1998).

Later, in Clinton v. Jones, the Court rejected any notion of Presidential immunity (even a temporary immunity) for the President who is sued by a private civil litigant for damages involving acts not within his Presidential duties. In that case, President Clinton’s “strongest argument” supporting his claim for immunity on a temporary basis, the Court said, was the claim that the President occupies a “unique office” and burdening him with litigation would violate the constitutional separation of powers and unduly interfere with the President’s performance of his official duties” (Rotunda, P: 36, 1998).

These factors all buttress and lead to the same conclusion: it is proper, constitutional, and legal for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting President for serious criminal acts that are not part of, and are contrary to, the President’s official duties. In this country, no one, even President Clinton, is above the law” (Rotunda, P: 55, 1998).

This conclusion does not imply that a President must be required to serve an actual prison term before he leaves office. The defendant President could remain free pending his trial, and the trial court could defer any prison sentence until he leaves office. The defendant-President may petition the courts to exercise its discretion in appropriate cases. It is one thing for the President to petition the court to exercise its discretion; it is quite another for the President to announce that he is above the law and immune from criminal prosecution” (Rotunda, P: 55, 1998).

This letter of Law Professor Rotunda states very clearly the provisions and special place within the Republic the President has and the laws that needs to be extended to prosecute him/her. So with this in mind, no one not even President Clinton was above the law. The same scenario remains today with President Trump. That Nixon tried to find ways to pardon himself is clear, the same does now President Trump.

The possible collusion and collaboration with foreign officials and entities will be more clear as the investigation and drops of information leaks to the press. The more meetings, lack of disclosure from the Trump Organization and the Trump Campaign. The same is it his family and associates, as long as the narrative still exists and there are plot-lines to define. The story will live on and the investigators will look into the possible breaches. The Office of Special Council Robert Mueller has lots of power. Something, President Trump cannot stop. Therefore, Tucker Carlson and others trying to gain leverage and saying the investigation makes everything in Mosciw illegal, like buying cigarettes in Moscow. That show’s the disrespect of a criminal investigation by the Trump Friendly Press like Fox News and Sinclair Media.

While that goes on, the 1998 letter show’s that the President can be prosecuted and is not a person who cannot be put on trial. What is different unless there is a special court and trial, the criminal offenses done before his Presidential Term and his sentencing has to be served after his term. That because of the Executive Branch and the august role of government the President are. Certainly, ironic writing that while describing Trump.

This will be lines from the letter, that says the most for me, because the criminal offenses before the Presidential Term: “it would be anomalous and aberrant to interpret the Impeachment Clause to immunize the President for alleged criminal acts, some which occurred prior to the time he assumed the Presidency and all far removed from any of the President’s enumerated duties: witness tampering, destruction of documents, subornation of perjury perjury, illegal pay-offs” (Rotunda, 1998).

So obstruction of justice, which is witness tampering and destruction of documents are likely things that people knows Trump has done or wanting to do. That is why Special Investigator Mueller has asked the government and White House to keep their documents relating to Russian affairs and the known meetings with Russians. So the investigation looks into the possible crimes of the Presidency before and also, within, but the impeachment would happen with a federal grand jury, where the President is sentenced for crimes, which is not in the President’s Office duties. So, the possible grand jury are there as much as it was for Nixon and was for Clinton. No difference for Trump, unless the House of Representatives and Senators at the Congress are spineless individuals who are all loyal to Moscow and Russians like Trump. Peace.

Reference:

Ronald R. Rotunda letter to Judge Kenneth W. Starr – ‘Re: Indictability of the President’ (13.05.1998)

Pardon me Trump, but you are not above the law!

It is one of these rare moments, when the powerful and executives understand how hard their case are failing, how much dirt and how much sinister outrage that will come out an investigation, that they will do and use all kind means to get there. That is the state of affairs within the New York Gang aka White House aka Trump Organization aka Russian Mob. There are just too much collusion and shade of grey to cease to amaze. The connections and inner-works. If President Trump was innocent, he would threat and sack law officers like James Comey or trying to figure out how to do it to Special Investigator Robert Mueller. He would have continued to spend time at Trump Resorts and played golf. Instead, he does this:

“Trump has asked his advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself in connection with the probe, according to one of those people. A second person said Trump’s lawyers have been discussing the president’s pardoning powers among themselves Trump’s legal team declined to comment on the issue. But one adviser said the president has simply expressed a curiosity in understanding the reach of his pardoning authority, as well as the limits of Mueller’s investigation” (Washington Post, 20.07.2017).

It seems like the President knows his predicament and trying to figure a way out and not leave scores of hurt for his family and his empire. Since Mueller is extending his team and his efforts into investigations. That is why Trump are disgusted with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who recused himself from the Russian Probe and answered out of loyalty to the Senate. Certainly, the tale of how the President will maneuver and act is not predicable, but he will only act in own interests and not for the sake of justice. If so, he would have given more funding to the works that former FBI director Comey was doing. Alas, he did not. The specialness out of it all, is that President Richard Nixon, asked the same questions about possible pardoning of himself and his team. Just days before his end of reign. Here is what the then Department of Justice representative wrote on the matter in 1974!

“Presidential or Legislative Pardon of the President:

Under the fundamental rule that no one may be a judge in his own case, the President cannot pardon himself. If under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment the President declared that he was temporarily unable to perform the duties of the office, the Vice President would become Acting President and as such could pardon the President. Thereafter the President could either resign or resume the duties of his office. Although as a general matter Congress cannot enact amnesty or pardoning legislation, because to do so would interfere with the pardoning power vested expressly in the President by the Constitution, it could be argued that a congressional pardon granted to the President would not interfere with the President’s pardoning power because that power does not extend to the President himself. August 5, 1974” (Mary C. Lawton, Presidential or Legislative Pardon of the President – 1974).

So now, the President is looking for a way out. The road ahead looks rocky for the President who has internal shake-ups and well as finding the best way out the scandal and mess. Who does not look better for by every day that passes by. The more people look into his business, his New York Gang and everything with his name. It turns sour.

Just as CBS News reports: “There’s been a shakeup in President Trump’s legal team. Marc Kasowitz is out as Mr. Trump’s personal attorney, CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett reports. And Kasowitz’s spokesman, Mark Corallo, has resigned, Garrett says.The reasons for the moves were not immediately known” (CBS News, 2017).

The legal team that now have to defend the President is Ty Cobb, Jay Sekulow and John Dowd. Clearly, these men has enormous challenge ahead as the legal case are growing and the relationships, the financial transactions and the whole Trump Organization is scrutinized by the Mueller investigation. Nothing is left to fate and see, it is checked and verified by the ones who has the authority. Even as the threats and the rumors of firing Mueller have come as well. Just as he fired Comey, but how much tampering with his own investigation can the American people.

If he we’re to fire Mueller, he had to fire Attorney General Sessions, who would give way to Deputy AG Rosenstein, who could appeal the Special Counsel, but if he doesn’t, that means that the President has to fire him as well. Than if possible repeal the act that gives authority to the investigation. That seem far-fetched, but if all botched ideas comes into play and Trump see this as a way out.

My final question, if this Russian Probe was not anything and had no real life effect. Why would Mr. President try to figure out the Powers of the Presidential Pardons?

Since, that is not an authority sanctioned with ease and for fun, except to few turkeys now and then. The rest of the time to serious offenders or for people wrongfully detained and incarcerated. That sort of act has not been done in favor of people close to the President and his family. Clearly, the President thinks that he is beyond and above the law. Peace.

Reference:

Carol D. Leonnig, Ashley Parker, Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger – ‘Trump team seeks to control, block Mueller’s Russia investigation’ (20.07.2017) link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-lawyers-seek-to-undercut-muellers-russia-investigation/2017/07/20/232ebf2c-6d71-11e7-b9e2-2056e768a7e5_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trumplegal-925pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.a25bf0c8e0ad

CBS News – ‘Marc Kasowitz and Mark Corallo depart Trump’s legal team’ (21.07.2017) link: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/corallo-kasowitz-depart-trump-legal-team/

U.S. Treasury fines ExxonMobile meager $2m for violation of the Russian-Ukraine Sanctions!

Some days you wonder if the connections of the New York isn’t to strong for the moment. When the joys of their loot and their power is not making them lose their senses. The common sense is clearly gone, as the company formerly run by Rex Tillerson, the now State Secretary of United States. Who couldn’t care less about the relationship between the United States of America and the Russian Federation. As the illegal and not internationally accepted annexation of the Crimea from the Republic of Ukraine happen. Still, even as that was happening the former Standard Oil baby ExxonMobile decided to be a trading partner and create opportunities in the vast resources in Russia and Russian territories. Now today they we’re fined, but that was a little slap on their wrist, as the real wealth inside the deal shows how much they really could have earned. Therefore, the crime and the penalty doesn’t fit. The Company gets away with a heist, but has to pay small interests for doing so. Now they are waiting for the possible time for their giant payoff and this will be simple write-off in their results in the next quarterly estimates. This sort of fine isn’t that serious, as it can easily chop it off and continue to eat.

First we will look into what the Wall Street Journal wrote about the deal between Russia and ExxonMobile, the second and third are about today’s fine and you see why it insulting fine to give.

A U.S. official said the new penalties would affect Exxon’s current drilling in the icy Kara Sea with its Kremlin-controlled partner, OAO Rosneft, though the extent of the impact was unclear Thursday. No other Western energy company has as much direct exposure to Russia as Exxon, thanks to a $3.2 billion deal giving the company access to a swath of the Arctic larger than Texas that could hold the equivalent of billions of barrels of oil and gas. Officials in Europe, which has extensive trade links to Russia, have insisted that Western nations share the fallout from sanctions against Moscow. Russia has said it would retaliate against additional sanctions with measures of its own, further heightening the risks to companies operating there, legal experts said. Exxon is “assessing the sanctions,” said Alan Jeffers, a company spokesman. “It’s our policy to comply with all laws.” (Gilbert, 2014)

ExxonMobil Corporation Assessed a Penalty for Violating the Ukraine-Related Sanctions Regulations: ExxonMobil Corp., oflrving, Texas, including its U.S. subsidiaries ExxonMobil Development Company and ExxonMobil Oil Corp. (collectively, “ExxonMobil”), has been assessed a civil monetary penalty of $2,000,000 for violations of the Ukraine-Related Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 589 (Ukraine-Related Sanctions Regulations). Between on or about May 14, 2014 and on or about May 23, 2014, ExxonMobil violated§ 589.201 of the Ukraine Related Sanctions Regulations when the presidents of its U.S. subsidiaries dealt in services of an individual whose property and interests in property were blocked, namely, by signing eight legal documents related to oil and gas projects in Russia with Igor Sechin, the President of Rosneft OAO, 1 and an individual identified on OF AC’s List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (the “SDN List”) (referred to hereinafter as an “SDN”)” (U.S. Treasury, 20.07.2017).

OF AC considered the following to be aggravating factors: (1) ExxonMobil demonstrated reckless disregard for U.S. sanctions requirements when it failed to consider warning signs associated with dealing in the blocked services of an SDN; (2) ExxonMobil’s senior-most executives knew of Sechin’ s status as an SDN when they dealt in the blocked services of Sechin; (3) ExxonMobil caused significant harm to the Ukraine-related sanctions program objectives by engaging the services of an SDN designated on the basis that he is an official of the Government of the Russian Federation contributing to the crisis in Ukraine; and (4) ExxonMobil is a sophisticated and experienced oil and gas company that has global operations and routinely deals in goods, services, and technology subject to U.S economic sanctions and U.S. export controls” (U.S. Treasury, 20.07.2017).

So it’s okay, the company ExxonMobile was fined for intervening in a Republic and inside a state where there was clear sanctions against trade. That was something Rex Tillerson knew and also the Russian counterparts, but ExxonMobile didn’t care. They just wanted the profits and earn on the fragile arctic and also into areas like the annexed Crimea. This shows the intent of profiting while being under sanctions and not respecting the laws of the United States and being a registered company residing in the United States.

This show the ethical backdrop of the New York Gang and the Administration of today, we cannot know how much the company earned before the stop between Rosneft and ExxonMobile. The suspension of activity between them. What we can imagine is that it was vastly more than the little they paid for breaking the law. Peace.

Reference:

Gilbert, Daniel – ‘Sanctions Over Ukraine Put Exxon at Risk’ (11.09.2014) – Wall Street Journal

United State Senate – Committee of the Judiciary letter to Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP requesting documents relating to the Russian Probe (19.07.2017)

United States Senate – Committee of the Judiciary letter to the Trump Organization requesting documents relating to the Russian Probe (19.07.2017)

United States Senate – Committee of the Judiciary letter to Donald Trump Junior requesting documents relating to the Russian Probe (19.07.2017)