Washington Times: A FBI informant who gave the government information about a Russian bribery plot implicated in the sale of U.S. uranium rights tried unsuccessfully last year to recover upwards of $700,000 in bribes he said he was authorized to pay as part of the FBIinvestigation.
William D. Campbell has emerged now as the key figure in a congressional probe into Russia’s 2010 purchase of U.S. uranium rights and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s role in approving the deal.
His identity had been shielded for weeks, but court records obtained by The Washington Times, as well as a report by Reuters, identified the man.
Mr. Campbell has not returned calls from The Washington Times seeking comment, but his civil suit, describing his involvement in the FBI investigation, matches details of the criminal case brought against Vadim Mikerin. Mikerin, who was the head of U.S. operations for Tenex, a subsidiary of Russia’s atomic energy giant Rosatom, was convicted of money laundering and other crimes and in 2015 sentenced to four years in prison.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, House Intelligence Committee and House Oversight Committee have all begun to probe the circumstances of Rosatom’s purchase of Canadian mining companyUranium One, which had mining rights in the U.S. Investigators have questioned whether the American agencies that signed off on the sale, including the State Department, were ever made aware of the FBI’s ongoing investigation of Mikerin and Tenex.
Mr. Campbell told Reuters that he was the confidential informant cited in the Mikerin case. And Victoria Toensing, a lawyer for the informant, has previously told Fox News that her client filed a civil lawsuit to get an unspecified amount of money back that he paid out in bribes during the case after the FBI failed to return the money to him. She has not responded to subsequent requests for comment. more here
Easy come easy go.
Let this be a lesson to all… NEVER trust the FBI when acting as a CI. Use their money not your own.
Sad day when you have to go undercover and CYA when working as an informant. Crooks are now more trust worthy than the FBI. Thanks Comey, McCabe, Lynch, Holder…. and Jeff, if you’re not of their ilk, prove it and prosecute the whole damn agency until the honest ones speak up!
FTA: “It is inconceivable that the Chairman of a major House Committee would launch a massive new investigation and send multiple document requests based on nothing more than secret allegations from an unidentified ‘confidential informant’ who the Chairman has never talked to, never met, and never vetted,” the Maryland Democrat (Rep. Elijah Cummings) said.
So let me get this straight– it’s perfectly acceptable to launch a years-long investigation into something isn’t even a crime (collusion) based on a fake “dossier” but it’s not acceptable to launch an investigation into criminal activity based on statements made by a confidential informant backed up by photographs and video.