Huma Abedin’s Cousin Convicted of Fraud, Tampered With Case By Deleting Emails – IOTW Report

Huma Abedin’s Cousin Convicted of Fraud, Tampered With Case By Deleting Emails

A family trait.

Daily Caller: A cousin of Huma Abedin who did a half-billion dollar deal with a man known as the “Russian Donald Trump” was convicted of fraud Tuesday, and the judge ordered him jailed immediately, saying he had demonstrated a “disdain for the courts and legal process” and was a flight risk.

Court documents also depict him trying to destroy potential evidence, saying he emailed his brother to “delete all of my emails from the yahoo site,” expressing “concern about them subp[o]ening yahoo at some point,” while concocting other fake documents to show the jury.

Jurors were barred from hearing a recording of a phone call in which Omar Amanat dropped the name of Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s right-hand woman, to a government witness, with defense lawyers saying the remark was “irrelevant and unfairly prejudicial,” according to the Associated Press.

The indictment charges that Amanat convinced people to invest millions of dollars in a tech company called Kit Digital and lied to them to hide the fact that the company was hemorrhaging cash. “The evidence of their criminal schemes was so overwhelming that Amanat actually tried to fool the jury by introducing fake emails into the record as exculpatory ‘evidence’ in this trial,” acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim said in a statement. Prosecutors said he re-purposed millions of dollars of the company’s money for his own personal use.  read more

14 Comments on Huma Abedin’s Cousin Convicted of Fraud, Tampered With Case By Deleting Emails

  1. Ummmmm… “re-purposed….”? How about stole…. took… absconded with…. pilfered…. Oh, I don’t know… I guess I am being to tough on semantics.

    “Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell

  2. @This Texan Has Had Enough December 28, 2017 at 10:12 pm

    > We don’t have enough fraudsters and crooks in this country. Let’s bring in more from other countries.

    American grifters are too lazy to scam for the profits still available after the bank bailouts.

  3. Note that deleting your emails can be interpreted as destroying potential evidence. Once created, your emails belong to the state. That goes for other records and documents as well.

  4. They were all so sure that Hillary was going to win that they got sloppy and reckless. These prosecutions are a trickle now but will soon be a torrent. We’re going to get sick of popcorn before this is over.

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