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Sunday, August 28, 2022

The DOJ Didn't Execute A Search For Political Reasons!

This could be one of the reasons for the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. A Ukrainian woman who may support the Russian Federation used a fake identity to get in.

The federal judge who oversaw the search warrant of Mar-a-Lago ordered a redacted release of the affidavit on Friday. It was an explosive release. U.S. District Judge Bruce Reinhart, has been under federal protection since the far-right has been attacking him for being involved in the warrant sign off.

Many FBI agents are concerned that the noise could provoke violence. I mean there were two incidents where extremists tried to infiltrate the FBI field offices. One extremist was arrested. The other was killed during a gunfight.

The seriousness of this means that the former president could be indicted for "obstruction of justice" and "improper handling of clandestine information." 

What made the FBI more concerned was the lack of security at the resort. People have infiltrated the facility despite the U.S. Secret Service being there 24/7.

The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) had asked for the former president to return documents within a timely frame. They only returned a handful of them. A whistleblower had informed the 

The former president and Sen. Sissy Graham (R-SC) didn't know a possible foreign spy made it on the property under an assumed name.

The Ukrainian woman posing as a member of the Rothschild banking family has been outed as a fraud after she allegedly infiltrated the Mar-a-Lago estate, according to reports.

Inna Yashchyshyn, 33, lied to ritzy resort members that she was the heiress to the reputed family’s mass fortune, Anna de Rothschild, according to a probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

She appeared at numerous Mar-a-Lago functions mingling with the likes of the former president and others while she held the position as president of United Hearts of Mercy, founded by Florida-based Russian oligarch and former business partner Valery Tarasenko in Canada in 2015, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Yashchyshyn, 33, is now the subject of several federal investigations after it was revealed she is not in fact a member of the Rothschild family. She’s additionally under investigation by Canadian authorities for alleged financial crimes.

In actuality, Yashchyshyn is the Russian-speaking daughter of an Illinois truck driver. It’s unclear when she came to the United States.

She allegedly made several trips to the ex-president’s Florida estate with her fake identity to make connections with some of the nation’s biggest leaders, according to the paper.

The Secret Service was informed that the FBI was conducting a search.

Federal records obtained by the Post-Gazette and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project showed Yashchyshyn had two fake passports from the US and Canada with the name “Anna de Rothschild.” A Florida driver’s license in her name listed a $13 million Miami Beach Mansion where she never lived. 

Yashchyshyn formerly worked in a suburban Miami business connecting pregnant Russian women to Americans looking to adopt a child, the Post-Gazette reported.

However, her web of lies unfolded amid a legal dispute she had with her former associate, Tarasenko

The far right doesn't realize how serious this is. Of the many pages in the affidavit from an FBI special agent with expertise in counterintelligence and espionage investigations, nearly covered in thick black lines.

There were 184 classified documents, some were documents were classified as "top secret" which means that only a handful of people with top level clearance are allowed to see this.

The 38-page court filing otherwise shed additional light on the FBI's suspicions that other sensitive documents remained at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach even after the former president returned more than 15 boxes of documents to the National Archives in January. 

"There is probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain classified [national defense information] or that are Presidential records subject to record retention requirements currently remain at the premises," an FBI agent wrote, referring to Mar-a-Lago. "There is also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the premises." 

The Justice Department blacked out the name of the FBI agent who signed the affidavit. Throughout the filing, the agent referred to Washed Up 45 by the acronym "FPOTUS" —  former president of the United States.

In a separate filing, the Justice Department said that redaction and others were needed to protect law enforcement personnel who have faced threats in the aftermath of the August 8 search of Mar-a-Lago.

After executing the warrant on August 8, the feds seized more than two dozen boxes of government records, including some that were highly classified and marked top-secret. Months before the search, in January, the former president turned over 15 boxes of records to the National Archives, but the FBI came to believe there was more to be found at Mar-a-Lago.

In the newly-unsealed affidavit, the FBI provided a breakdown of what agents found in the 15 boxes. During a preliminary review, between May 16 and May 18, the FBI "identified documents with classification markings" in 14 of the 15 boxes, the agent wrote.

The records included "184 unique documents bearing classification markings, including 67 documents marked as CONFIDENTIAL, 92 documents marked as SECRET, and 25 documents marked as TOP SECRET," the agent wrote. 

"Several of the documents also contained what appears to be FPOTUS 's handwritten notes," the agent added.

In response to the newly-unsealed filing, Washed Up 45 suggested that the federal judge who approved the search warrant should have recused himself. But the former president and his lawyers have made no effort since the August 8 search to seek the recusal of Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart as he has considered requests to unseal records related to the Mar-a-Lago search.

"Affidavit heavily redacted!!!" Washed Up 45 wrote on social media, adding that the public version of the affidavit included no mention of his "close working relationship" with the government "regarding document turnover.

"WE GAVE THEM MUCH," he wrote. "Judge Bruce Reinhart should NEVER have allowed the Break-in of my home."

The affidavit's unsealing came a day after Reinhart ordered the public release of the affidavit, albeit with significant portions blacked-out to conceal the identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents, and other sensitive details about the investigation into the former president's handling of government records.

In a brief order Thursday, Reinhart endorsed the Justice Department's proposed redactions after determining that they were "narrowly tailored to serve the government's legitimate interest in the integrity of the ongoing investigation and are the least onerous alternative to sealing the entire affidavit."

The release of the affidavit itself was extraordinary and came weeks after the FBI took the unprecedented step of searching a former president's private residence. Typically, an affidavit only becomes public in the event that federal prosecutors bring charges, which hasn't happened in this case.

But the raid of the former president's home has drawn intense public interest and prompted media organizations and transparency groups to call for the release of all records related to the search. At the request of the Justice Department, and with no objection from Washed Up 45, Reinhart previously ordered the release of the search warrant and the inventory of items the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago.

The unsealed warrant revealed that the Justice Department is investigating if the former president violated three federal laws, including the Espionage Act, when he refused to return government documents that were moved to his Florida residence after he left office.

At a court hearing last week, a top Justice Department advocated for keeping the affidavit under seal, arguing that its public release could undermine the inquiry into the former president's handling of the records.

But Reinhart said he was inclined to unseal parts of the affidavit.

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