Time: Mon Nov 03 20:54:23 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA16947; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 20:52:42 -0700 (MST) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA11837; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 20:47:07 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 20:47:44 -0800 To: (Recipient list suppressed) 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 <snip> > >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 > <snip>
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