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Human Rights Activist Files RICO Suit Against Fusion GPS Founders
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Date: May 22, 2018 09:40PM
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Human Rights Activist Files RICO Suit Against Fusion GPS Founders
9:19 AM 05/22/2018
President of the Human Rights Foundation is suing two founders of Fusion GPS under the RICO statute.
Thor Halvorssen claims two reporters who founded Fusion GPS engaged in a conspiracy to retaliate against him for blowing the whistle on one of Fusion’s clients.
The Fusion founders were hired to produce a dossier and a media campaign to depict Halvorrsen as a pedophile and addict, according to the lawsuit.
A prominent human rights activist is suing two of the founders of Fusion GPS and several Venezuelan businessmen under a statute usually associated with the Mafia.
Thor Halvorssen, the president of the Human Rights Foundation, claims that Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, two former Wall Street Journal reporters who founded Fusion, engaged in a conspiracy to retaliate against him for blowing the whistle on one of Fusion’s clients, a Venezuelan power plant company called Derwick Associates.
The two Fusion founders were hired to produce a dossier and a media campaign “to depict Halvorrsen as a pedophile, heroin addict, and embezzler of the Foundation’s money,” reads Halvorssen’s lawsuit, which he filed under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) statute.
Mostly linked to organized crime cases, RICO can also be used in civil cases against legitimate businesses. Halvorssen’s case rests on the theory that Derwick and Fusion GPS engaged in a conspiracy to intimidate a whistleblower, which Halvorssen considers himself to be because he has provided information about an alleged Derwick bribery scheme to federal authorities.
“Thor’s got a righteous case,” G. Robert Blakey, a former federal prosecutor who drafted RICO back in 1970, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Blakey, a Notre Dame law professor, said that the approach of Halvorssen’s lawyer to the RICO case is a novel one that hasn’t been tested much in federal court. But he noted that the attorney, Howard Foster, is one of the top-five RICO attorneys in the country.
“It’s a good case,” said Blakey.
Under a civil RICO cases, plaintiffs must show that defendants engaged in two incidents of racketeering within 10 years of each other. To support that element of the case against Fusion, Halvorssen’s lawsuit cites the oppo firm’s work against himself and two other men, Alek Boyd and Bill Browder.
Fusion went after Browder, the leading force behind the Magnitsky Act, on behalf of a Russian businessman who faced penalties because of the sanctions law. Fusion GPS technically worked BakerHostetler, a law firm that represented a Russian businessman named Denis Katsyv.
As part of its work, Fusion produced research alleging that Browder laundered money out of Russia and evaded taxes.
In a bizarre twist, some of Fusion’s research was taken into the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a group of Russians. Fusion was working at the time with two of the Russian attendees, Natalia Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin.
Halvorssen’s suit does not mention Fusion GPS’s most infamous project: the Steele dossier. Working for the Clinton campaign and DNC, Fusion hired former British spy Christopher Steele in June 2016 to investigate Donald Trump and members of his campaign.
The result is a 35-page report full of salacious allegations, the most serious of yet have yet to be proven.
Boyd was allegedly targeted by Fusion GPS because of his investigations against Derwick. A former Halvorssen associate, Boyd has claimed that Fusion passed around a dossier that, similar to the one against Halvorssen, accused him of rampant drug use and pedophilia.
#backfiringlikeamotherfucker
Human Rights Activist Files RICO Suit Against Fusion GPS Founders
9:19 AM 05/22/2018
President of the Human Rights Foundation is suing two founders of Fusion GPS under the RICO statute.
Thor Halvorssen claims two reporters who founded Fusion GPS engaged in a conspiracy to retaliate against him for blowing the whistle on one of Fusion’s clients.
The Fusion founders were hired to produce a dossier and a media campaign to depict Halvorrsen as a pedophile and addict, according to the lawsuit.
A prominent human rights activist is suing two of the founders of Fusion GPS and several Venezuelan businessmen under a statute usually associated with the Mafia.
Thor Halvorssen, the president of the Human Rights Foundation, claims that Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, two former Wall Street Journal reporters who founded Fusion, engaged in a conspiracy to retaliate against him for blowing the whistle on one of Fusion’s clients, a Venezuelan power plant company called Derwick Associates.
The two Fusion founders were hired to produce a dossier and a media campaign “to depict Halvorrsen as a pedophile, heroin addict, and embezzler of the Foundation’s money,” reads Halvorssen’s lawsuit, which he filed under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) statute.
Mostly linked to organized crime cases, RICO can also be used in civil cases against legitimate businesses. Halvorssen’s case rests on the theory that Derwick and Fusion GPS engaged in a conspiracy to intimidate a whistleblower, which Halvorssen considers himself to be because he has provided information about an alleged Derwick bribery scheme to federal authorities.
“Thor’s got a righteous case,” G. Robert Blakey, a former federal prosecutor who drafted RICO back in 1970, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Blakey, a Notre Dame law professor, said that the approach of Halvorssen’s lawyer to the RICO case is a novel one that hasn’t been tested much in federal court. But he noted that the attorney, Howard Foster, is one of the top-five RICO attorneys in the country.
“It’s a good case,” said Blakey.
Under a civil RICO cases, plaintiffs must show that defendants engaged in two incidents of racketeering within 10 years of each other. To support that element of the case against Fusion, Halvorssen’s lawsuit cites the oppo firm’s work against himself and two other men, Alek Boyd and Bill Browder.
Fusion went after Browder, the leading force behind the Magnitsky Act, on behalf of a Russian businessman who faced penalties because of the sanctions law. Fusion GPS technically worked BakerHostetler, a law firm that represented a Russian businessman named Denis Katsyv.
As part of its work, Fusion produced research alleging that Browder laundered money out of Russia and evaded taxes.
In a bizarre twist, some of Fusion’s research was taken into the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a group of Russians. Fusion was working at the time with two of the Russian attendees, Natalia Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin.
Halvorssen’s suit does not mention Fusion GPS’s most infamous project: the Steele dossier. Working for the Clinton campaign and DNC, Fusion hired former British spy Christopher Steele in June 2016 to investigate Donald Trump and members of his campaign.
The result is a 35-page report full of salacious allegations, the most serious of yet have yet to be proven.
Boyd was allegedly targeted by Fusion GPS because of his investigations against Derwick. A former Halvorssen associate, Boyd has claimed that Fusion passed around a dossier that, similar to the one against Halvorssen, accused him of rampant drug use and pedophilia.
#backfiringlikeamotherfucker