Emails show how Clinton campaign chair was apparently hacked by By TAMI ABDOLLAH and MICHAEL BIESECKER Friday October 28th, 2016 at 9:56 P
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- New evidence appears to show how hackers earlier this year stole more than 50,000 emails of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, an audacious electronic attack blamed on Russia's government and one that has resulted in embarrassing political disclosures about Democrats in the final weeks before the U.S. presidential election....
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The man who brokered a deal between a Brighton Beach Russian mobster and the man he was hired to kill pleaded guilty to the extortion charges yesterday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Boris Kotlyarsky, 68, confessed in Manhattan federal court that he persuaded Oleg Mitnik, the man who had the target on his head, to pay him and assassin Boris Nayfeld $125,000 in exchange for his life.
Anatoly Potik, a Russian businessman, allegedly offered Nayfeld, 69, $100,000 to kill his son-in-law, Mitnik, who runs an international shipping company, because Mitnik was in the middle of a $20 million divorce from Potik’s daughter.
Mitnik paid Kotlyarsky and Nayfeld $50,000 as part of the deal in January after Kotlyarsky repeatedly told him about Nayfeld and his history of organized crime and affinity for violence, according to prosecutors.
The deal went south after the first transaction, which took place in a Brooklyn restaurant. After Nayfeld left the restaurant he was greeted by a fleet of law enforcement officers just outside the restaurant, according to Gangsters Inc.
The charges that Kotlyarsky pleaded guilty to are extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion, each of which carry a sentence of up to 20 years. However, in the plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s office, Kotlyarsky only faces about three to four years in prison.
“As Boris Kotlyarsky has admitted, he took cruel advantage of a desperate situation, giving a victim the extortionate choice between paying off his hitman or death,” said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. “Kotlyarsky’s manipulation did not result in a payoff, but instead a criminal conviction.”
Nayfeld agreed to a plea deal that requires him to testify against other mobsters two weeks ago. Now Nayfeld is working with the feds in the hopes that they’ll be easy on him. He faces 40 years in prison for extortion.
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Every time Americans start thinking nothing more can surprise them in this presidential campaign, something detonates to prove them wrong. So it was that on Friday, 11 days from Election Day, the F.B.I. director, James Comey, sent a cryptic letter to Congress saying: “In connection with an unrelated case, the F.B.I. has learned of the existence of emails that appear pertinent” to its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
Whose emails? About what? Do they have any connection to Mrs. Clinton herself? Mr. Comey wasn’t saying. Indeed, he appeared to have no idea. He went on to inform Congress that the F.B.I. “cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant,” nor could he even predict how long it would take the F.B.I. to figure that out.
In a rare moment of bipartisan agreement — if not mutual interest — the campaigns of both Mrs. Clinton and Donald Trump demanded, quite correctly, that Mr. Comey provide more information, and fast.
According to numerous reports on Friday evening, the new emails were discovered during the bureau’s investigation of Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of Huma Abedin, an aide and confidante of Mrs. Clinton’s. Mr. Weiner is being investigated in connection with illicit text messages he sent to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.
Mr. Comey clearly found himself in a bind. On July 5, he disclosed more than the F.B.I. typically does in an investigation, when he announced that the F.B.I. would not recommend that the Department of Justice pursue charges against Mrs. Clinton for mishandling classified material through what he called her “extremely careless” use of a private server. That same week, he testified before Congress that his investigators had found insufficient evidence to warrant prosecution of Mrs. Clinton. The discovery of a new email trove presented him with a choice between risking opprobrium for not revealing its existence until after the election or delivering his deeply unsatisfying letter on Friday.
There is so far no indication that Mr. Comey’s missive means the F.B.I. is “reopening” its investigation into Mrs. Clinton, as hyperventilating Republicans, including Mr. Trump, are suggesting, nor is it an acknowledgment that the F.B.I. erred in its earlier efforts. It doesn’t mean that anybody within the F.B.I. is trying to influence the election, as some panicky Democrats are implying. But without more information, it’s impossible for voters to judge the significance of this discovery as they head to the polls.
Mrs. Clinton, as she has acknowledged, is responsible for this mess, which led Friday night to a gobsmacking headline on CNN: “Weiner Sexting Probe Leads F.B.I. to Review Clinton Case.” If she is elected, she would do well to recall that line should she ever consider being less than forthcoming. Her apparent effort to blunt scrutiny by means of that private server has only led to far more damaging scrutiny and suspicion, with no end in sight.
But Mr. Comey’s failure to provide any specifics about a new, potentially important development, less than two weeks before Election Day, is confounding. As Mr. Comey put it in July: “The American people deserve those details in a case of intense public interest.” They deserve details even more urgently today.
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Published on Oct 28, 2016
Ed Henry reports from Washington
Published on Oct 28, 2016
Ed Henry reports from Washington
Published on Oct 28, 2016
Democratic candidate addresses FBI Director James Comey's letter to Congress
In her first public comments since FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers earlier in the day that the bureau is reviewing new emails tied to the server, Clinton said it's "imperative" that the bureau provide more details about what it's doing in the final days of the campaign.
"Voting is underway, so the American people deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately," Clinton said at a brief news conference in Des Moines, Iowa, adding it was "imperative that the bureau explain this issue in question, whatever it is, without any delay."
Clinton said she was "confident whatever (the emails) are will not change the conclusion reached in July," when Comey said he wouldn't recommend criminal charges in the matter.
Still, the Democratic nominee's campaign was shaken by Comey's move Friday — just 11 days before the election — and the press conference reflected how serious she's taking the issue. The newly discovered emails are part of an investigation into Anthony Weiner, according to law enforcement sources. Weiner, the disgraced former congressman, recently separated from top Clinton aide Huma Abedin after a sexting incident.
The FBI and the New York Police Department
have opened preliminary investigations
of allegations that Weiner, a former New York Democratic congressman, exchanged sexually explicit text messages with a purportedly underage girl.
Huma Abedin's life and career
Huma Abedin's life and career
Abedin talks with a guest during an Iftar dinner at the White House August 10, 2011.
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