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GOP Operative Secretly Raised at Least $100,000 in Search for Clinton Emails

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-op...0-000-in-search-for-clinton-emails-1538913614

Opposition researcher’s efforts are of intense interest to investigators probing Russian election interference (Oct 7 2018)

WASHINGTON—A veteran Republican operative and opposition researcher solicited and raised at least $100,000 from donors as part of an effort to obtain what he believed to be emails stolen from Hillary Clinton, activities that remain of intense interest to federal investigators working for special counsel Robert Mueller’s office and on Capitol Hill.

Peter W. Smith, an Illinois businessman with a long history of involvement in GOP politics, [balance of article hidden behind pay wall)
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Smith was a Republican operative who tried to buy from Russian hackers the missing 33,000 Clinton emails. In this effort he raised $100,000 from at least 4 contributors who may now be guilty of election fraud. Smith was also close personally to Michael Flynn, making this matter of great interest to Robert Mueller.

Smith committed suicide in Rochester, MN in mid-May, leaving behind a suicide note describing his ill health & an expiring insurance policy.
 
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Peter W. Smith, GOP operative who sought Clinton's emails from Russian hackers, committed suicide, records show - Chicago Tribune

Peter W. Smith, GOP operative who sought Clinton's emails from Russian hackers, committed suicide, records show

Republican donor and operative from Chicago's North Shore who said he had tried to obtain Hillary Clinton's missing emails from Russian hackers killed himself in a Minnesota hotel room days after talking to The Wall Street Journal about his efforts, public records show.

In mid-May, in a room at a Rochester hotel used almost exclusively by Mayo Clinic patients and relatives, Peter W. Smith, 81, left a carefully prepared file of documents, including a statement police called a suicide note in which he said he was in ill health and a life insurance policy was expiring.
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You can't make this stuff up. More to keep Mueller busy. Expect more indictments or guilty pleas.
 
and the dots between the Trump campaign and the Russians continue to be connected forming a very clear picture that all but the willfully blind can see.
 
haymarket said:
and the dots between the Trump campaign and the Russians continue to be connected forming a very clear picture that all but the willfully blind can see.
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I wonder why people have stopped talking about that shameful Helsinki press conference. It makes me very curious about what went on during that closed-door summit. I've even wondered if sex was involved in some way.
 
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Suicide, eh? Shot three times, in the back of the head with a shotgun?
 
haymarket said:
and the dots between the Trump campaign and the Russians continue to be connected forming a very clear picture that all but the willfully blind can see.
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Was Smith breaking the law?
 
JacksinPA said:
I wonder why people have stopped talking about that shameful Helsinki press conference. It makes me very curious about what went on during that closed-door summit. I've even wondered if sex was involved.
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Since every week gives us a new car wreck with Trump at the wheel, its now ancient history.... unfortunately.
 
haymarket said:
Hopefully the Mueller investigation will reveal more on that.
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He was trying to influence the results of the election. That's against Federal law.

18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting

Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and

Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
 
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JacksinPA said:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-op...0-000-in-search-for-clinton-emails-1538913614

Opposition researcher’s efforts are of intense interest to investigators probing Russian election interference (Oct 7 2018)

WASHINGTON—A veteran Republican operative and opposition researcher solicited and raised at least $100,000 from donors as part of an effort to obtain what he believed to be emails stolen from Hillary Clinton, activities that remain of intense interest to federal investigators working for special counsel Robert Mueller’s office and on Capitol Hill.

Peter W. Smith, an Illinois businessman with a long history of involvement in GOP politics, [balance of article hidden behind pay wall)
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Smith was a Republican operative who tried to buy from Russian hackers the missing 33,000 Clinton emails. In this effort he raised $100,000 from at least 4 contributors who may now be guilty of election fraud. Smith was also close personally to Michael Flynn, making this matter of great interest to Robert Mueller.

Smith committed suicide in Rochester, MN in mid-May, leaving behind a suicide note describing his ill health & an expiring insurance policy.
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You guys never give up.
 
JacksinPA said:
He was trying to influence the results of the election. That's against Federal law.
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I am sure it will be all about adoptions in the end. :doh:roll:
 
JacksinPA said:
He was trying to influence the results of the election. That's against Federal law.
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He was doing opposition research. Opposition research is literally used to influence an election.
 
apdst said:
So, no, he wasn't. Thanks!
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It seems you either cannot read or it is comprehension that makes you look so foolish when your reply is not even close to being relevant to the post you pretended to be replying to.
 
Atomic Kid said:
He was trying to buy these emails on the dark web. So what does that tell you?
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It tells me he was trying to buy emails.

What does it tell you? Is this where another imaginary crime pops up?
 
haymarket said:
It seems you either cannot read or it is comprehension that makes you look so foolish when your reply is not even close to being relevant to the post you pretended to be replying to.
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I can read just fine.
 
Atomic Kid said:
He was trying to buy these emails on the dark web. So what does that tell you?
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Dark Web
noun
the part of the World Wide Web that is only accessible by means of special software, allowing users and website operators to remain anonymous or untraceable.
 
haymarket said:
Since every week gives us a new car wreck with Trump at the wheel, its now ancient history.... unfortunately.
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On this season of mushrooming political yard signs, I'd like to get one made up that says 'Helsinki - Shame.'
 
JacksinPA said:
He was trying to influence the results of the election. That's against Federal law.

18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting

Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and

Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
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So he was using the $100k to convince someone to vote a particular way, or not to vote?
 
haymarket said:
I am sure it will be all about adoptions in the end. :doh:roll:
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Since Smith offed himself in a hotel that is used primarily for the patients at the Mayo Clinic & their families, Trump may turn this into an effort to buy a secret cancer cure from Russia. Nobel Price in Physiology or Medicine!
 
Moon said:
So he was using the $100k to convince someone to vote a particular way, or not to vote?
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He was going to use the money to buy the 33,000 Clinton emails that he assumed the Russian hackers had gotten. These would have been leaked by WikiLeaks at the right time to sway the election results to Trump.
 
JacksinPA said:
He was going to use the money to buy the 33,000 Clinton emails that he assumed the Russian hackers had gotten.
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Then you must have posted the incorrect statute that you think applies.
 
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