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Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller broke his own record this week for guilty pleas. On Tuesday  Dutch attorney Alex van der Zwaan appeared in federal court and admitted he had lied to investigators about his contacts with  Donald Trump's former campaign vice chairman  Rick Gates .
On Friday   Gates himself  appeared before a federal judge and confirmed that  he  is changing  his  plea to guilty.  He  had been fighting the case brought against  him  and the former Trump campaign chairman  Paul Manafort  which alleged they laundered millions of dollars and broke other laws related to their work for clients in Ukraine.
 Gates  and Manafort have not been charged with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. by "impairing  obstructing and defeating the lawful functions of the government through fraud and deceit for the purpose of interfering with the U.S. political and electoral processes." That was the charge Mueller leveled at 13 Russians and three Russian companies he says did interfere with the election.
Or the special counsel's office could be laying down one brick in a larger structure. At the very least   Gates'  future testimony against  his  longtime business partner raises the likelihood that Manafort could be convicted of some or all of the charges  he  continues fighting.
Manafort and his lawyers know this. So one of Mueller's strategies in getting  Gates  to turn state's evidence might be to persuade Manafort to do the same and tell what he knows about other people in the Trump campaign orbit.
Or evidence from  Gates  might be what the special counsel's office needs to build a case against Manafort for conspiring in the 2016 Russian interference effort. Or  after years of working with Manafort   Gates  might have other evidence that would permit Mueller to bring new charges against Manafort.
Mueller announced a new indictment in Manafort's case on Friday evening. After  Gates  appeared in federal court Friday to enter his plea  Manafort continued to maintain his innocence and said he remained committed "to defend myself against the untrue piled up charges contained in the indictments against me."
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Gates


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President Isaias Afwerki 's interview on a government website Wednesday said the migrants from  his  country and Sudan paid a "high price" to human traffickers to reach Israel and deserve more like $50 000.
"They need fair compensation to start a new life in their home country "  Afwerki  said in the interview with local media.  He  said all those who wish to return home "have every right to do so " and that Eritrea has offered to register all of its roughly 20 000 migrants but Israeli authorities had refused.
Many Eritreans leaving the east African nation claim they fled a restrictive regime under  Afwerki   where men are often forced into a military service with slavery-like conditions. They say they cannot return.
In the interview   Afwerki  claimed instead that the Eritrean migrants were enticed abroad to organize an armed opposition but that the "subversive schemes" failed and the migrants now have become a burden.
Israeli authorities said the migrants will be deported to Rwanda and Uganda   Afwerki  said.
"We are told they will be deported to any country that can accept them "  he  said. "These are human beings  not livestock. No country can claim legal responsibility to receive our citizens."
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Isaias Afwerki


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As rumors swirl that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is preparing a case against Russians who are alleged to have hacked Democrats during the 2016 election â a conclusion based solely on the analysis of cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike  a Friday op-ed in the Washington Times by retired U.S. Navy admiral James A. Lyons  Jr. asks a simple  yet monumentally significant question: Why havenât Congressional Investigators or Special Counsel Robert Mueller addressed the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich â who multiple people have claimed was Wikileaksâ source of emails leaked during the 2016 U.S. presidential election?
Mueller has been incredibly thorough in his ongoing investigations â however he wonât even respond to Kim Dotcom  the New Zealand entrepreneur who clearly knew about the hacked emails long before they were released  claims that  Seth Rich  obtained them with a memory stick  and has offered to provide proof to the Special Counsel investigation.
Reminder: Hereâs the first letter my lawyers wrote to Special Counsel Mueller regarding  Seth Rich . We never received any reply. Itâs astonishing considering my first hand knowledge of the DNC leak. [Link] â Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) March 2  2018
I knew  Seth Rich . I know  he  was the @Wikileaks source. I was involved. [Link] â Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) May 20  2017
On May 18  2017  Dotcom proposed that if Congress includes the  Seth Rich  investigation in their Russia probe   he  would provide written testimony with evidence that  Seth Rich  was WikiLeaksâ source.
Odd facts surrounding the murder of  Seth Rich
 âThe facts that we know of in the murder of the DNC staffer   Seth Rich   was that  he  was gunned down blocks from  his  home on July 10  2016. Washington Metro police detectives claim that  Mr. Rich  was a robbery victim  which is strange since after being shot twice in the back   he  was still wearing a $2 000 gold necklace and watch.  He  still had  his  wallet  key and phone. Clearly   he  was not a victim of robbery â writes Lyons.
Another unexplained fact muddying the Rich case is that of a stolen 40 caliber Glock 22 handguns stoken from an FBI agentâs car the same day  Rich  was murdered. D.C. Metro police said that the theft occurred between 5 and 7 a.m.  while the FBI said two weeks later that the theft had occurred between Midnight and 2 a.m. â fueling speculation that the FBI gun was used in Richâs murder.
Furthermore  two men working with the Rich family â private investigator and former D.C. Police detective Rod Wheeler and family acquaintance Ed Butowsky  have previously stated that  Rich  had contacts with WikiLeaks before his death.
While Wheeler initially told TV station Fox5 that proof of Richâs contact with WikiLeaks lies on the murdered IT stafferâs laptop  he later walked the claim back â though he maintained that there was âsome communication between  Seth Rich  and WikiLeaks.â
Rod Wheeler telling Fox5 his FBI sources linked  Seth Rich  to Wikileaks. "Absolutely  and that's confirmed" #RodWheeler #SethRich pic.twitter.com/IGWERgRBkE â ZeroPointNow (@ZeroPointNow) August 2  2017
Wheeler also claimed in recently leaked audio that  Seth Richâs  brother  Aaron â a Northrup Grumman employee  blocked him from looking at Sethâs computer and stonewalled his investigation.
Wheeler said that  brother Aaron Rich  tried to block Wheeler from looking at Sethâs computer  even though there could be evidence on it. â He  said no   he  said I have  his  computer  meaning  him  â Wheeler said. âI said  well can I look at it?â¦ He  said  what are you looking for? I said anything that could indicate if  Seth  was having problems with someone.  He  said no  I already checked it. Donât worry about it.â Aaron also blocked Wheeler from finding out about who was at a party  Seth  attended the night of the murder. âAll I want you to do is work on the botched robbery theory and thatâs it â Aaron told Wheeler âBig League Politics
Perhaps the most stunning audio evidence  however  comes from leaked audio of a recorded conversation between Ed Butowsky and Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh  who told him of  a âpurported FBI report establishing that Seth Rich sent emails to WikiLeaks .â
What  the report  says is that some time in late Springâ¦ he makes contact with WikiLeaks  thatâs in his computer â he says. âAnyway  they found what he had done is that he had submitted a series of documents â of emails  of juicy emails  from the DNC.â Hersh explains that it was unclear how the negotiations went  but that WikiLeaks did obtain access to a password protected DropBox where  Rich  had put the files. âAll I know is that he offered a sample  an extensive sample  Iâm sure dozens of emails  and said âI want money.âLater  WikiLeaks did get the password  he had a DropBox  a protected DropBox â he said. They got access to the DropBox.â Hersh also states that  Rich  had concerns about something happening to him  and had âThe word was passed  according to the NSA report  he also shared this DropBox with a couple of friends  so that âif anything happens to me itâs not going to solve your problems ââ he added. âWikiLeaks got access before he was killed.â
Last but not least  letâs not forget that Julian Assange heavily implied  Seth Rich  was a source:
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Seth Rich