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Showing posts with label TENEX. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Monday, August 12, 2019
Cocktails& Popcorn: August 13th, 2019 Epstein's Teneo Connects All The Dots To Uranium One
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Cocktails & Popcorn: Day 97.1 Putting It All Together - Rosenstein, Deripaska, Butina, Whelan, Lambert, et al... In Detroit
Rod Rosenstein, who oversaw Mueller probe, leaving Justice Department
Is Rod going to bear witness as a whistleblower?
Accused Novi spy no stranger to setbacks, squabbles
Ann Arbor — Paul Whelan, the Michigan man detained in Moscow on suspicion of spying, launched a successful security career in the auto industry despite quitting one of his first law enforcement jobs under pressure, public records show.
Court records and interviews portray Whelan as an unpopular whistle blower embroiled in small-town squabbles and suffering petty indignities while working as a $7-an-hour, part-time police officer in Chelsea. The records provide a snapshot of Whelan's early career and chronicle another red flag in the past of a man with financial issues who was kicked out of the Marines.
"On the surface, it sounds like he was successful at working hard to overcome setbacks," brother David Whelan wrote in an email to The Detroit News on Tuesday.
The portrait is emerging amid questions about Whelan's past and whether the 48-year-old Novi man is a spy or an unwitting pawn entangled in an international incident. He's jailed in Russia and facing a possible 20-year prison sentence.
Meanwhile, Russian authorities have granted requests to visit Whelan made by representatives of the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada, three countries in which he holds citizenship along with the United States, his brother said Tuesday.
Whelan faced adversity during a legal fight involving carnies, a bottle of Faygo and $14.79 worth of groceries. The legal fight is outlined in a whistle-blower lawsuit Whelan filed against the Chelsea Police Department in Washtenaw County Circuit Court in 1995.
In 1993, Whelan was a part-time police officer in Chelsea, west of Ann Arbor.
Whelan, who started as a parking enforcement officer, dispatcher and school crossing guard while juggling service in the U.S. Marine Corps, was dispatched to the Chelsea Community Fair for a domestic dispute involving carnival workers.
While on scene, Whelan was told a fellow officer had taken groceries left behind by carnival workers and drank the Faygo at the police station.
Whelan reported the incident to Chief Lenard McDougall.
The chief ordered Whelan to write a report and "keep his nose out of it," according to the whistle-blower lawsuit.
An internal investigation ended with no criminal charges against Whelan's fellow officer, who was suspended five days without pay.
Retribution was swift and continuous, Whelan alleged.
Officers laughed at him for carrying two pairs of handcuffs, Whelan said.
“I was harassed and made fun of, some behind my back, some not behind my back," Whelan alleged.
He blamed one colleague for defacing his department photo by scratching out his face.
"My locker was vandalized by, obviously, people taking it and rocking it and knocking everything around and kicking it," Whelan said during the deposition.
Dispatchers would not share information with him, Whelan complained.
Whelan had at least one supporter within the small police department.
“I would say Officer Whelan is an outstanding investigator," Officer Richard Foster said during a deposition conducted during the whistle-blower lawsuit. "He does an outstanding job on his reports. He has good investigative methods. Any case that I have worked with Paul on, we have always shared information.”
Foster noticed how colleagues treated Whelan.
"There was a lot of murmuring about Officer Whelan ... causing trouble," Foster said during the deposition. “This was with anger. This was, you know, 'how dare another officer turn in another officer that may have done something wrong.'”
Whelan, who was undergoing active-duty training with the Marines, did not stop pursuing the matter.
In 1994, he filed a complaint with the Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office and the Michigan State Police regarding the alleged larceny. He also raised concerns that Chelsea Police inappropriately spent federal grant funds.
"I feel very uneasy about two incidents that could cast a shadow on my career if the (Chelsea Police Department) were ever investigated and these incidents were brought to light," Whelan wrote to Washtenaw County Prosecuting Attorney Brian Mackie.
In the letter, Whelan complained that the fairgrounds investigation was quashed and accused McDougall of fraudulently obtaining federal grant funds as reimbursement for volunteer work Whelan performed in Chelsea.
"I don't ever want anyone saying that I was a party to cops stealing from their constituents," Whelan wrote to the county prosecutor.
McDougall denied the allegations and the complaints did not lead to criminal charges.
In November 1994, a month after complaining to the prosecutor, Whelan finished active-duty training with the Marines and asked to return to his part-time job with the police department.
But Whelan was told he wouldn't be added to the schedule until the next year, and he eventually received a fraction of his normal hours, according to the lawsuit.
The chief was angry about the Michigan State Police investigation and did not want to reinstate the officer due to "friction" among Whelan and fellow officers after the fairgrounds incident, according to the lawsuit.
So Whelan filed the whistle-blower lawsuit in April 1995, arguing the department and the chief violated the Michigan Whistleblowers' Protection Act and discriminated against him because he reported the fairgrounds incident and the alleged misuse of federal grant funds.
McDougall, the police chief, denied threatening to fire Whelan or taking any adverse action against the officer.
“It is defendant’s contention that (Whelan's) claim is merely part of a long-standing inability to get along with his fellow employees and is being asserted for the purpose of covering up any wrongdoing on his part," Chelsea lawyer Owen Cummings wrote while asking a judge to dismiss the lawsuit.
Whelan was no angel, according to Chelsea's lawyer, who revealed Whelan's paycheck had been garnished because he wrote $370 worth of bad checks.
Tension between Whelan and the department culminated almost one year after he filed the lawsuit.
In March 1996, Lt. Michael Foster sent Whelan a letter indicating he was being suspended amid an "ongoing internal investigation into various complaints made against you over the past several months, and other incidents and concerns relating to your job performance ..."
Four days after Foster sent the letter, Whelan quit.
Whelan backdated his resignation, rendering the suspension moot, according to filings in the lawsuit.
In May 1996, Whelan was suffering from depression and anxiety triggered by his treatment from members of the police department, according to court filings.
The whistle-blower case was dismissed two months later, after Whelan settled the lawsuit. Settlement terms were not available.
The case faded into history until Whelan's arrest late last month drew international media attention and TV coverage.
"I kept saying 'why does this guy look familiar?'" Chelsea's lawyer Gregory Ulrich told The News. "His name didn't register."
A decade after the lawsuit ended, Whelan's military career ended in a court martial.
Court documents released by the military show he was accused of attempting to steal more than $10,000 while on duty in Iraq, where he worked as a clerk, in September 2006. He was also convicted of using a false Social Security number and profile for a military computer system to grade his own examinations, and of writing 10 bad checks totaling around $6,000.
He was dropped two grades in rank, convicted of attempted larceny and dereliction of duty and given a bad conduct discharge from the Marine Corps.
A year later, Auburn Hills-based automotive components supplier BorgWarner hired Whelan as global security director.
When asked if BorgWarner contracts with federal governments, Russian or otherwise, company spokeswoman Kathy Graham said, “We supply vehicle manufacturers. We don’t supply any government. Our customer is the automakers.”
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Friday, January 12, 2018
Phase 3: The Contracts - DOJ Indictments In Uranium One Russian Bribery, Fraud & Money Laundering
Phase 3: The Uranium One contracts.
Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation is not a Russian governmental entity because it is privatized, like the Detroit Land Bank Authority, except ROSATOM incorporated.
TENEX is a subsidiary of ROSATOM.
Another collaborative conjugation, but this time, let's all welcome the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Inspector General into the mix..
Former President of Maryland-Based Transportation Company Indicted on 11 Counts Related to Foreign Bribery, Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme
Executive Allegedly Paid Bribes to a Russian Official So His Company Could Win Highly Sensitive Nuclear Fuel Transportation Contracts
Executive Allegedly Paid Bribes to a Russian Official So His Company Could Win Highly Sensitive Nuclear Fuel Transportation Contracts
An indictment against a former co-president of a Maryland-based transportation company that provides services for the transportation of nuclear materials to customers in the United States and abroad, was unsealed today for his alleged role in a scheme that involved the bribery of an official at a subsidiary of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation.
Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Stephen M. Schenning of the District of Maryland, Principal Deputy Inspector General April G. Stephenson of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Inspector General (DOE-OIG) and Assistant Director in Charge Andew W. Vale of the FBI’s Washington, D.C. Field Office made the announcement.
Mark Lambert, 54, of Mount Airy, Maryland, was charged in an 11-count indictment with one count of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and to commit wire fraud, seven counts of violating the FCPA, two counts of wire fraud and one count of international promotion money laundering. The charges stem from an alleged scheme to bribe Vadim Mikerin, a Russian official at JSC Techsnabexport (TENEX), a subsidiary of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation and the sole supplier and exporter of Russian Federation uranium and uranium enrichment services to nuclear power companies worldwide, in order to secure contracts with TENEX.
The case against Lambert is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Theodore D. Chuang of the District of Maryland.
According to the indictment, beginning at least as early as 2009 and continuing until October 2014, Lambert conspired with others at “Transportation Corporation A” to make corrupt and fraudulent bribery and kickback payments to offshore bank accounts associated with shell companies, at the direction of, and for the benefit of, a Russian official, Vadim Mikerin, in order to secure improper business advantages and obtain and retain business with TENEX. In order to effectuate and conceal the corrupt and fraudulent bribe payments, Lambert and others allegedly caused fake invoices to be prepared, purportedly from TENEX to Transportation Corporation A, that described services that were never provided, and then Lambert and others caused Transportation Corporation A to wire the corrupt payments for those purported services to shell companies in Latvia, Cyprus and Switzerland. Lambert and others also allegedly used code words like “lucky figures,” “LF,” “lucky numbers,” and “cake” to describe the payments in emails to the Russian official at his personal email account. The indictment also alleges that Lambert and others caused Transportation Corporation A to overbill TENEX by building the cost of the corrupt payments into their invoices, and TENEX thus overpaid for Transportation Corporation A’s services.
In June 2015, Lambert’s former co-president, Daren Condrey, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the FCPA and commit wire fraud, and Vadim Mikerin pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering involving violations of the FCPA. Mikerin is currently serving a sentence of 48 months in prison and Condrey is awaiting sentencing. The indictment includes allegations against Lambert based on his role in effectuating the criminal scheme with Condrey, Mikerin, and others.
The charges in the indictment are merely allegations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
The case is being investigated by DOE-OIG and the FBI. Assistant Chiefs Ephraim Wernick and Christopher J. Cestaro and Trial Attorney Derek J. Ettinger of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section, as well as Assistant U.S. Attorneys David I. Salem and Michael T. Packard of the District of Maryland, are prosecuting the case.
The Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs has provided significant assistance in this matter. The Department also thanks its law enforcement colleagues in Switzerland, Latvia and Cyprus for providing valuable assistance with the investigation and prosecution of the case.
The Criminal Division’s Fraud Section is responsible for investigating and prosecuting all FCPA matters. Additional information about the Justice Department’s FCPA enforcement efforts can be found at www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/fcpa.
Phase 4: The DOJ OIG Report - scheduled for release on Martain Luther King, Jr. Day, January 15, 2018.
Phase 4: The DOJ OIG Report - scheduled for release on Martain Luther King, Jr. Day, January 15, 2018.
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