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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: LAWSUIT CHARGES DOJ COLLUSION WITH RUSSIAN MAFIA (fwd)
We were talking a while back about the
Russian Mafia, and I distinctly remember
hearing several incredulous nay-sayers,
shooting the messengers. Well, here's
another messenger for their target
practices.
/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://supremelaw.com
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>
>LAWSUIT CHARGES DOJ COLLUSION WITH RUSSIAN MAFIA
>
> A $100 million lawsuit filed in federal court today charges
>the Department of Justice with collusion with the Russian Mafia.
>The lawsuit alleges perjury, fraud, torture, and witness
>tampering by named officers of the U.S. government on behalf of
>the Russian Mafia.
>
> The lawsuit stems from the case of Alexandre Konanykhine, a
>Russian banker who blew the whistle on a grand KGB scheme to
>smuggle hundreds of millions of dollars out of the Soviet Union
>at the time of its collapse. The loot is still stashed in foreign
>banks, some in Switzerland, and former KGB officers and Communist
>Party officials are protecting the secret through their new
>positions in the Russian Mafia and in the corrupt government of
>Russia.
>
> After whistleblower Konanykhine was kidnapped by the Russian
>Mafia, he escaped to the United States where he thought himself
>protected by the legal system. Words cannot describe the horror
>he and his wife went through when they discovered that FBI and
>INS agents worked on behalf of former KGB officers in the Russian
>Mafia to have him returned through extralegal means to Russia.
>Both the FBI and the INS are part of the Justice Department.
>
> Mr. Konanykhine fought the deportation in court, and after a
>long legal battle against the Justice Department he was released
>from custody last July. During the case, reported in the August
>25 and September 1 issues of the Washington Weekly, the horrible
>and illegal methods employed by the U.S. government against Mr.
>Konanykhine and his wife were revealed. Presiding judge T.S.
>Ellis, III, found the evidence "disturbing." So much so, that on
>August 26 he ordered the Justice Department's Office of
>Professional Responsibility to investigate official wrongdoing.
>As of today, the OPR has yet to contact any of the witnesses in
>the case.
>
> Justice Department investigations of itself are notorious for
>finding "no credible evidence" of wrongdoing by government
>officials, so a more successful venue may be a lawsuit filed
>today in federal court by Alexandre Konanykhine.
>
> Mr. Konanykhine charges officers of the Washington District
>Office of the INS, including District Director William Carroll,
>Assistant District Director James Goldman and District Counsel
>Eloise Rosas with conspiracy with one Lt. Colonel Volevodz of the
>Russian Military Procuracy to commit illegal extradition of him
>and his wife to Russia on behalf of the Russian Mafia.
>
> Said officials are alleged to have conducted the following
>illegal acts:
>
>
> (1) perjury;
>
> (2) fraud on the Court;
>
> (3) fraud upon the United States;
>
> (4) conspiracy to defraud the United States;
>
> (5) giving conflicting testimony on separate occasions as to
> the same matter;
>
> (6) conspiracy to kill, maim, or injure persons in a foreign
> country;
>
> (7) torture (as defined in 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2340);
>
> (8) combination to injure other in their reputation, business
> or profession;
>
> (9) tampering with witnesses;
>
> (10) retaliating against witnesses;
>
> (11) attempt to commit murder;
>
> (12) deprivation of civil rights under color of law,
> including the false arrest and imprisonment;
>
> (13) search and seizure without warrant;
>
> (14) false publications;
>
> (15) disclosure of confidential information;
>
> (16) breach of the confidentiality provisions of 8 U.S.C.
> Sec. 552a(b).
>
>
>
>HOW HIGH DOES IT GO?
>
> The conspiracy is not limited to these named officials of the
>Clinton administration, however. During the court hearing in
>July, a witness recounted that Eloise Rosas had told him that
>"the INS got instructions from the top to cooperate with this
>case."
>
> How high is "the top" and what motive does the Clinton
>administration have to cooperate with the Russian Mafia and
>former KGB officers? Could it be part of a quid pro quo
>involving Clinton campaign contributions from criminal
>individuals such as Grigory Loutchansky?
>
> Alexandre Konanykhine explains that the stakes are on an
>entirely different scale. "It's not about how much Russians gave
>to the Democrats, it's about how much the Democrats gave to
>Russians. Billions have been spent to keep Yeltsin in the
>Kremlin--it now precludes the discussion of whether Yeltsin has
>built a Mafiocracy instead of a Democracy," he tells the
>Washington Weekly. "Big corporations which benefit from business
>in Russia want stability there even if it means stability of a
>criminal government."
>
> Second, Konanykhine sees himself as a pawn in the
>globalization efforts of the FBI. "Director Freeh wants to make
>the FBI a global organization with presence in each and every
>country, and the overhyped success of the close and productive
>friendship with the corrupt Russian government is the linchpin
>for this globalization of FBI," he says.
>
> Third, Konanykhine sees a failure of the Clinton
>administration and the mainstream media to recognize the
>villains. "Some officials still sincerely believe that Russia is
>a newborn democracy and that the KGB successor agencies are now
>the best friends of the US government. (An) excusable mistake if
>you recall that Gorbachev, Perestroika, Democracy, the crushed
>Berlin Wall, etc. was praised everywhere, but the story of the
>Russian Criminal Revolution of 92-93 has never made its way to
>the international Press."
>
>
>A PATTERN OF RELATED CASES
>
> Lest anyone should believe that the Konanykhine case is just
>one of those famous Clinton administration "bureaucratic snafus,"
>Mr. Konanykhine points to the parallel case of Jouri Nesterov, a
>legal U.S. resident since 1994, who is now fighting a similar
>deportation to Russia.
>
> Mr. Nesterov claims that he played a small part in a secret
>and politically explosive scheme by the Russian military to sell
>sophisticated arms to China, and that most of the proceeds,
>including his promised fee, were pocketed by high-level officials
>and allied Russian Mobsters. Those people, he says, now want him
>back -- to silence him.
>
> And again, incredibly, the Clinton administration is helping
>Russian Mobsters masquerading as government officials to silence
>Nesterov.
>
>
>
>
> Published in the Nov. 3, 1997 issue of The Washington Weekly
> Copyright 1997 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com)
> Reposting permitted with this message intact
>
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