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Uranium One Informant: Russia Hired Lobbying Firm to Influence Hillary, Obama Admin
Posted by Mary Chastain Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 3:00pm

“I was speechless and angry in October 2010 when CFIUS approved the Uranium One sale to Rosatom.”
An undercover FBI informant spoke to Congress about the Uranium One controversy, which included accusations that the Russians paid American lobbying firm APCO Worldwide to influence former President Barack Obama’s administration…especially Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

From The Hill:

The informant, Douglas Campbell, said in the statement obtained by The Hill that he was told by Russian nuclear executives that Moscow had hired the American lobbying firm APCO Worldwide specifically because it was in position to influence the Obama administration, and more specifically Hillary Clinton.

Democrats have cast doubt on Campbell’s credibility, setting the stage for a battle with Republicans over his testimony.
Campbell added in the testimony that Russian nuclear officials “told me at various times that they expected APCO to apply a portion of the $3 million annual lobbying fee it was receiving from the Russians to provide in-kind support for the Clintons’ Global Initiative.”
“The contract called for four payments of $750,000 over twelve months. APCO was expected to give assistance free of charge to the Clinton Global Initiative as part of their effort to create a favorable environment to ensure the Obama administration made affirmative decisions on everything from Uranium One to the U.S.-Russia Civilian Nuclear Cooperation agreement.”

Campbell’s written statement also confirmed what sources told The Hill in previous reports such as the Obama admin “making decisions that ended up benefitting the Russian nuclear industry, which he said was seeking to build a monopoly in the global uranium market to help President Vladimir Putin seek a geopolitical advantage over the United States.”
He witnessed Russians boasting during “vodka-fueled meetings” that the U.S. is weak and basically gave away the uranium industry. SaraCarter.com has more:

“The Russians expressed a sense of urgency to secure new U.S. uranium business because they knew that the two-decades-old ‘Megatons to Megawatts’ program would cease in 2013,” Campbell said. “Then Russia would no longer be guarantedd a market to sell recycled nuclear warhead materials as peaceful reactor fuel in the United States. I gathered evidence for the FBI by moving closer and closer to the Russians’ key nuclear industry players, including those inside the United States and high-ranking Russian officials who would visit.”

Campbell could not believe that the admin approved the sale:

“I was speechless and angry in October 2010 when CFIUS approved the Uranium One sale to Rosatom. I was deeply worried that TLI continued to transport sensitive uranium despite the fact that it had been compromised by the bribery scheme,” stated Campbell in his testimony to lawmakers. “I expressed these conserns repeatedly to my FBI handlers. The response I got was that ‘politics’ was somehow involved. I remember one response I got from an agent when I asked how it was possible CFIUS would approve the Uranium One sale when the FBI could prove Rosatom was engaged in criminal conduct. His answer: ‘Ask your politics.'”

Denials and Democrat Backlash

APCO officials reached out to The Hill to deny Campbell’s accusations. The company insisted that its support with the Clinton foundation did not have anything to do with their work with Russia. Instead, the company lobbying for Russia involved “regulatory issues aimed at helping Russia better compete for nuclear fuel contracts inside the United States.”
Of course the Clinton family denies any wrongdoing:

“Just yesterday the committee made clear that this secret informant charade was just that, a charade. Along with the widely debunked text-message-gate and Nunes’ embarrassing memo episode, we have a trifecta of GOP-manufactured scandals designed to distract from their own President’s problems and the threat to democracy he poses,” [Clinton spokesman Nick] Merrill said.

Democrats have also come to save the Clintons, but the Republicans have reminded everyone that the FBI obviously found Campbell’s information credible because they paid him $50,000 in 2016.

Previous Reports

The Hill broke Campbell’s story back in October, but he could not speak due to a confidentiality agreement. He claimed he witnessed “conversations and transactions” within the Russian nuclear industry about influencing the Clintons to grab the Canadian company Uranium One.
Cambell worked as an undercover agent in Russia’s nuclear industry with the country’s main nuclear energy company Rosatom’s Tenex subsidiary.
His records refer to the FBI informant as “confidential source 1,” “contractor,” and “Victim 1.” Toensing said this man is her client. It also shows that her client went to the FBI in 2009 “after Russian officials asked him to engage in illegal activity.”
The FBI allowed the informant to hand out “kickback payments to the Russians” as he gathered other evidence.
The Hill heard from sources that this informant led the government “to crack a multimillion dollar racketeering scheme by Russian nuclear officials on U.S. soil that involved bribery, kickbacks, money laundering and extortion.” This led to an executive to expand the nuclear business, an executive at a U.S. trucking firm, and Russian financier from New Jersey to plead “guilty to various crimes in a case that started in 2009 and ended in late 2015.”
The documents that the informant has shows connections between the Clintons and Obama:
The information the client possesses includes specific allegations that Russian executives made to him about how they facilitated the Obama administration’s 2010 approval of the Uranium One deal and sent millions of dollars in Russian nuclear funds to the U.S. to an entity assisting Bill Clinton’s foundation. At the time, Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary of State on the government panel that approved the deal, the lawyer said.
It has been previously reported that Bill Clinton accepted $500,000 in Russian speaking fees in 2010 and collected millions more in donations for his foundation from parties with a stake in the Uranium One deal, transactions that both the Clintons and the Obama administration denied had any influence on the approval.
Federal law requires officials such as then-Secretary Clinton to avoid both conflicts of interest and the appearance of conflicts when it comes to the business and financial interests of a spouse. Clinton signed a special agreement when she became secretary to disclose her husband’s charitable donations to the State Department to avoid any such conflicts. Both Clintons have repeatedly insisted no donations raised by the foundation ever influenced her decisions.

Original article: Legal Insurrection

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