Supreme Court rules against mystery corporation 'from Country A' fighting subpoena in Mueller invest
Source: Washington Post
The Supreme Court on Tuesday left in place a lower court order requiring an unnamed foreign-owned corporation to comply with a subpoena said to be part of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. The court dissolved a temporary stay that had been put in place by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. In a short order, it did not give a reason for the decision, nor did it note any dissents.
The entity that is the subject of the cloaked legal battle -- known in court papers simply as a "Corporation" from "Country A" -- is a foreign financial institution that was issued a subpoena by a grand jury hearing evidence in the special counsel investigation, according to two people familiar with the case. It is thought to be the first time that an aspect of Mueller's wide-ranging probe into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign has reached the Supreme Court.
Last year, a federal court in Washington ordered the corporation to pay a daily fine until it complied with the subpoena, according to court records. An appeals court panel upheld that decision last month, prompting the company's lawyers to appeal to the Supreme Court. Late last month, Roberts, who receives emergency petitions from the D.C. Circuit, put the order and the fines on hold until the justices could consider the matter.
The secret nature of the case has prompted a Washington guessing-game about the information that Mueller is pursuing. In the lower courts and at the Supreme Court, details of the legal battle to get information from the corporation have been sealed. At one point an entire floor of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit was closed to the public to protect the identity of the litigants.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-rules-against-mystery-corporation-from-country-a-fighting-subpoena-in-mueller-investigation/2019/01/08/a39b61ac-0d1a-11e9-84fc-d58c33d6c8c7_story.html
Full title: Supreme Court rules against mystery corporation from 'Country A' fighting subpoena in Mueller investigation
UPDATE above.
Original article -
January 8 at 3:38 PM
The court left in place a lower court order requiring an unnamed foreign-owned corporation to comply with a subpoena and dissolved a temporary stay that had been put in place by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. In a short order, it did not give a reason for the decision, nor did it note any dissents.
The entity that is the subject of the cloaked legal battle -- known in court papers simply as a "Corporation" from "Country A" -- is a foreign financial institution that was issued a subpoena by a grand jury hearing evidence in the special counsel investigation, according to two people familiar with the case.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2019/01/08/supreme-court-rules-against-mystery-corporation-from-country-a-fighting-subpoena-in-mueller-investigation/?utm_term.958016d5efcb
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Some cases are so historic, SCOTUS feels it must weigh in just to preserve the rule of law. That was the case in Bush v. Gore, and in 2019 we'll often find it to be the case in the Trump-Russia probe. So initial SCOTUS intercessions, like Roberts', shouldn't cause undue surprise.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court denies the foreign country-owned company's request to stay a contempt order resulting from its refusal to comply with a grand jury's subpoena. Chief Justice Roberts' "administrative stay" is vacated, so the result is the contempt order is back in effect.
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Some cases are so historic, SCOTUS feels it must weigh in just to preserve the rule of law. That was the case in Bush v. Gore, and in 2019 we'll often find it to be the case in the Trump-Russia probe. So initial SCOTUS intercessions, like Roberts', shouldn't cause undue surprise.
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2/ In other words we may at times in 2019 hear of an "administrative stay" coming out of SCOTUS that makes us think the Court is going to rule a certain way, when in fact it's simply taking hold of a case so that it can be the one to issue the case's final, determinative holding.
C_U_L8R
(45,040 posts)What more will it take for him to blow a gasket on live tv?
helpisontheway
(5,008 posts)WheelWalker
(8,958 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)where he says Mueller can't handle the truth and admits to ordering the Code Red (Russian Collusion)
volstork
(5,403 posts)where he blows a gasket on national TV.
What a sweet dream that is...
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)I hope Schumer doesn't waste any time bringing the Bible and the Chief Justice over to Pelosi.
volstork
(5,403 posts)azureblue
(2,158 posts)Jesus was a socialist and taught the rich are obligated to help the poor. and see Matthew 25:31 -46 for Jesus' dire warning.
So it will be fun to hammer Pence with the teachings of Jesus and ask him why if he is a Christian, he is refusing to do what Jesus taught? That sort of makes Pence anti Christian, doesn't it...
From what little I know about Pence, he is blindly dogmatic. And those people who fall back on the Bible, the word of God, etc., can be induced into a crisis of faith, when they are confronted with matters like "why aren't you doing what Jesus tells you to do?"
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)I do try to follow Matthew 25: 35-39. Even in the Tanakn there are some good laws to follow.
PubliusEnigma
(1,583 posts)louis-t
(23,313 posts)when Mueller's report comes out is the level of foreign interference in our elections, the amount of classified info given to Russia by Republicans, and the staggering amounts of cash owed to Russia by MF-45.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)...as more and more of their vile treason moves toward EXPOSURE.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,754 posts)I can't keep all these trials straight.
MilitaryEminentDomainHat Retweeted
BREAKING: Supreme Court denies the foreign country-owned company's request to stay a contempt order resulting from its refusal to comply with a grand jury's subpoena. Chief Justice Roberts' "administrative stay" is vacated, so the result is the contempt order is back in effect.
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saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)suffer fools lightly. If this Special Counsel issues a subpoena, a challenge is only going to provide a brief delay in the march to the guillotine.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,660 posts)This mystery company must be loaded.
sandensea
(21,717 posts)Those winters in Country A are something else aren't they.
iluvtennis
(19,910 posts)Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)He's going to be rabid this evening during his address
malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)The lack of leaks from an investigation that has reached into so many venues is a true testament to Mr. Mueller's professionalism and complete neutrality, everything the dotard lacks. Similarly, in my opinion, it speaks to the strength and stability of our judicial branch, and encourages me that it will be the wall we all think of when we look back on this shit-show of a "presidency"
BumRushDaShow
(130,016 posts)I keep thinking that one or possibly the somewhat notorious Alfa Bank (with its data communications to the campaign server).
EDIT TO ADD - see this little thread on that - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211642921
You had DeVos and brother Erik Prince involved with a Russian back-channel meeting... and then this connection in terms of server communications -
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The D.N.S. records raised vexing questions. Why was the Trump Organizations domain, set up to send mass-marketing e-mails, conducting such meagre activity? And why were computers at Alfa Bank and Spectrum Health trying to reach a server that didnt seem to be doing anything? After analyzing the data, Max said, We decided this was a covert communication channel.
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One remarkable aspect of Foers story involved the way that the Trump domain had stopped working. On September 21st, he wrote, the Times had delivered potential evidence of communications to B.G.R., a Washington lobbying firm that worked for Alfa Bank. Two days later, the Trump domain vanished from the Internet. (Technically, its A record, which translates the domain name to an I.P. address, was deleted. If the D.N.S. is a phone book, the domain name was effectively decoupled from its number.) For four days, the servers at Alfa Bank kept trying to look up the Trump domain. Then, ten minutes after the last attempt, one of them looked up another domain, which had been configured to lead to the same Trump Organization server.
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Alfa Bank was founded by Mikhail Fridman, in the last years of the Soviet Union. Fridman was born in western Ukraine and studied metallurgy in college. Like many others of his generation, he was introduced to the market economy through hustle. He sold theatre tickets, washed windows, and ran a student discothèque. After the Soviet Union collapsed, in 1991, Fridman joined the scramble to befriend members of the new government and amass a fortune with help from the state. Along with an economist named Petr Aven, who had previously served as the countrys minister for foreign economic relations, Fridman built Alfa Bank into one of the most successful businesses in the new Russia. Its parent company, Alfa Group, now controls the countrys largest private bank, along with financial institutions in several European nations.
Refresher stuff on this - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/was-there-a-connection-between-a-russian-bank-and-the-trump-campaign
Some more on Alfa - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/maria-butina-paul-erickson-suspicious-bank-money-russia
Dutch just raided the subsidiary in their country - https://www.reuters.com/article/netherlands-russia-bank/corrected-dutch-subsidiary-of-russias-alfa-bank-raided-in-money-laundering-investigation-idUSL8N1OC4SM
BobTheSubgenius
(11,580 posts)More investigation, I should say.
Those two are easily the two leading candidates, at least in my mind, but it could also be a private equity firm belonging to one of the Russian oligarchs. That would be OK,. too.
Whatever causes the most disruption of their operations, and that of their "client" (co-conspirator) and the worst PR nightmare is fine by me.
Jose Garcia
(2,612 posts)Deutsche Bank is a publicly traded corporation. The company involved in this litigation is owned by a foreign government.
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ffr
(22,681 posts)Mueller is damn good at what he does. He may help save the union yet.
orangecrush
(19,666 posts)33taw
(2,448 posts)I am glad this worked out. Sometimes we need to wait out the procedural stuff.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Rik von Beer
(22 posts)...owns Individual 1.