Jared Kushner’s lawyer
in the Russia probe is “dropping out”
by Staff Report • July 15, 2017
Jamie Gorelick, a lawyer who has
been representing Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, is
calling it quits as far as inquires being conducted by congressional
committees and Justice
Department special counsel Robert Mueller.
Sources said Gorelick will continue to represent Kushner
on ethics issues and possible crimes related to false statements on his
security clearance form, but she is stepping away from matters that may involve
a conflict of interest.
Mueller, a former FBI director who was appointed to conduct the Russia investigation,
was a partner at Gorelick’s law firm, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
Gorelick also said Mueller hired three other Wilmer Hale
partners to investigate the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russian efforts to
influence the presidential election and actions that may constitute criminal
obstruction of justice.
“As we have stated, once Bob Mueller and three of our
partners left the firm to form the Special Counsel’s Office, we advised Mr.
Kushner to get independent legal advice on whether to continue with us as
counsel,” said Gorelick.
Gorelick said she is turning over responsibilities for
Kushner’s part in the Russia investigation to Abbe Lowell, a
well-known Washington criminal defense lawyer.
Gorelick advised Kushner, who has sprawling
financial interests in a multi-billion-dollar global real estate empire, on how
he might comply with federal ethics and anti-nepotism laws as a White House
advisor.
Although Kushner has no experience in government or
public policy, Trump put him in charge of all foreign-policy matters during his
Presidential transition.
At that time, Kushner participated in meetings between
Trump and foreign heads of state while continuing to run the Kushner Companies,
a multibillion-dollar real estate developer in New York City and
the New Jersey residential market.
Kushner Companies has used a controversial visa scheme
that Trump renewed in May, the EB-5 program, to fuel foreign investment
and it relies on complex financing arrangements to cover looming debt that
could make Jared Kushner vulnerable to Russian influence.
Jared Kushner held a December meeting with executives
from a Russian bank, VneshEconomBank, or VEB, at the suggestion of the Russian
ambassador.
He was also present at the meeting at Trump Tower in
June 2016, before Trump has sewn up the GOP presidential nomination, with
a Russian lawyer and a former Soviet counter-intelligence officer. That
pow-wow, arranged by Donald Trump Jr., was also attended by Paul
Manafort, who was chairman of the Trump campaign at the time.
The former Soviet counterintelligence officer — lobbyist
Rinat Akhmetshin — is suspected of having ongoing ties to Russian spy
agencies. Born in Russia, Akhmetshin served in the Soviet military and
emigrated to the U.S., where he holds dual citizenship.
The meeting was set up by music publicist Rob Goldstone,
who described Natalia Veselnitskaya as a “Russian government attorney” and
promised she had information that was “part of Russia and its government’s
support for Mr. Trump.”
Numerous sources show Veselnitskaya had been working with
Akhmetshin on a campaign to repeal the Magnitsky Act, an American law set to
punish Russian human rights violators.
Gorelick served as the Deputy Attorney General of the
United States from 1994 to 1997, during the Clinton administration, and she
became a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in July 2003
Robert Mueller
Robert S.
Mueller III is investigating interference with Russia in the 2016 U.S. election, special counsel investigating
Russian ties in the 2016 Donald Trump
presidential campaign, a special counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, James
Quarles III is assisting him in the Russia
probe, Jeannie Rhee is assisting him
in the Russia collusion probe, Aaron Zebley is assisting him in the Russia probe, was a director at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
and a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering
Hale and Dorr.
Note: James Quarles
III is assisting Robert S. Mueller
III in the Russia probe, and was
a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering
Hale and Dorr.
Jeannie Rhee is
assisting Robert S. Mueller III in the
Russia collusion probe, was a deputy
assistant attorney general at the U.S.
Department of Justice, and a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
Aaron Zebley is
assisting Robert S. Mueller III in the
Russia probe, and was a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
Jared Kushner’s
law firm is Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale
and Dorr, Jamie S. Gorelick is
his attorney, is the senior adviser to the president for the Donald Trump administration, and Donald Trump’s son-in-law.
Cameron F. Kerry
was an associate at Wilmer Cutler
Pickering Hale and Dorr, is John F.
Kerry’s brother, a fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think
tank), and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, is the
founder & chairman for the Open
Society Foundations, and a friend of Michael
Douglas.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank).
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton N. Minow is
a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
R. Eden Martin is
counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past
Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and married to John F. Kerry.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews was an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the president of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a
2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United States in war)
Michael Douglas
is a director at the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and a friend of George Soros.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
James F. Collins
is a senior associate at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and was a U.S. ambassador
for Russia.
Jamie S. Gorelick
was a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank), a deputy attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice, is Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner’s attorney, and a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is
a division of the U.S. Department of
Justice.
Robert S.
Mueller III was a director at the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, is investigating
interference with Russia in the 2016
U.S. election, special counsel investigating Russian ties in the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign,
a special counsel at the U.S. Department
of Justice, James Quarles III is
assisting him in the Russia probe, Jeannie Rhee is assisting him in the Russia collusion probe, and Aaron Zebley is assisting him in the Russia probe.
James Quarles
III is assisting Robert S. Mueller
III in the Russia probe, and was
a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering
Hale and Dorr.
Jeannie Rhee is
assisting Robert S. Mueller III in the
Russia collusion probe, was a deputy
assistant attorney general at the U.S.
Department of Justice, and a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
Aaron Zebley is
assisting Robert S. Mueller III in the
Russia probe, and was a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
Guantanamo controversy
Main article: Guantanamo Bay
attorneys
A team of WilmerHale attorneys
represents the “Algerian Six”, a group of men who fell under suspicion of
planning to attack the US embassy in Bosnia and who are now held in the
Guantanamo Bay detainment camp.[13]
In 2006, attorney Melissa
Hoffer, then part of the team with WilmerHale, delivered a speech in Caen,
France, critical of U.S. detainee policy.[14] Other WilmerHale lawyers
participating in the case include Stephen Oleskey,[15] and Rob Kirsch.[16]
In January 2007, Cully
Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, criticized
WilmerHale and other major law firms for representing "the very terrorists
who hit their bottom line back in 2001," and questioned whether such work
was really being done pro bono or might actually receive funding from shadowy
sources.[17] In a Wall Street Journal editorial criticizing Stimson, Harvard
Law School professor (and former United States Solicitor General under
President Reagan) Charles Fried wrote:
“ "It is no surprise that firms like Wilmer Hale (which
represents both Big Pharma and Tobacco Free Kids), Covington & Burling (which
represents both Big Tobacco and Guantanamo detainees), and the other firms on
Mr. Stimson's hit list, are among the most sought-after by law school
graduates, and retain the loyalty and enthusiasm of their partners. They offer
their lawyers the profession at its best, and help assure that the rule of law
is not just a slogan but a satisfying way of life."[18]
In December 2007, Seth Waxman
made the oral argument to the Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush which upheld
habeas corpus rights for detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
is a partner at Covington & Burling
LLP, and was the attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice.
Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is
a division of the U.S. Department of
Justice.
Robert S.
Mueller III was a director at the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, is investigating
interference with Russia in the 2016
U.S. election, special counsel investigating Russian ties in the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign,
a special counsel at the U.S. Department
of Justice, James Quarles III is
assisting him in the Russia probe, Jeannie Rhee is assisting him in the Russia collusion probe, and Aaron Zebley is assisting him in the Russia probe.
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