FBI Investigates Scheme To Pay Off Women To Accuse Mueller Of Sexual Assault

I’m by NO means a fan of Mueller, but this “plot” is SO WRONG.

According to this, the FBI is investigating an elaborate scheme designed to discredit Robert Mueller. It included– you guessed it– allegations of sexual assault.

An alleged scheme to pay off women to fabricate sexual-assault allegations against Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been referred to the FBI for further investigation, a spokesman for the special counsel’s office told The Atlantic. “When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the Special Counsel, we immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” the spokesman, Peter Carr, told me in an email on Tuesday.

That’s AWFUL. I don’t care if someone is your political enemy or not. It is ALWAYS wrong to make false accusations against a person. You shouldn’t have to lie to discredit them. The TRUTH always speaks volumes.

13 days ago I received this tip alleging an attempt to pay off women to make up accusations of sexual misconduct against Special Counsel Bob Mueller. Other reporters received the same email. Now the Special Counsel’s office is telling us they’ve referred the matter to the FBI pic.twitter.com/oqh4Fnel5u

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 30, 2018

Can confirm that this is the original email. https://t.co/D2E82FVrlq

— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) October 30, 2018

The special counsel’s office confirmed that the scheme was brought to its attention by several journalists who were told about it by a woman alleging that she herself had been offered roughly $20,000 by a man claiming to work for a GOP activist named Jack Burkman “to make accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment against Robert Mueller.” The woman told journalists in an email, a copy of which I obtained, that she had worked for Mueller as a paralegal at the Pillsbury, Madison, and Sutro law firm in 1974, but that she “didn’t see” him much. “When I did see him, he was always very polite to me, and was never inappropriate,” the woman wrote. The firm has not returned a request for comment about whether the woman actually worked there.

The woman explained that she was contacted by a man “with a British accent” who wanted to ask her “a couple questions about Robert Mueller, whom I worked with when I was a paralegal for Pillsbury, Madison, and Sutro in 1974. I asked him who he was working for, and he told me his boss was some sort of politics guy in Washington named Jack Burkman. I reluctantly told [him] that I had only worked with Mr. Mueller for a short period of time, before leaving that firm to have my first son.”

She continued: “In more of an effort to get him to go away than anything else, I asked him what in the hell he wanted me to do. He said that we could not talk about it on the phone, and he asked me to download an app on my phone called Signal, which he said was more secure. Reluctantly, I downloaded the app and he called me on that app a few minutes later. He said (and I will never forget exactly what it was) ‘I want you to make accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment against Robert Mueller, and I want you to sign a sworn affidavit to that effect.’” The man “offered to pay off all of my credit card debt, plus bring me a check for $20,000 if I would do” it, she wrote. “He knew exactly how much credit card debt I had, right down to the dollar, which sort of freaked me out.”

Sadly, this kind of thing happens all the time, so for liberals to act all morally outraged? PLEASE. When these elaborate schemes involve throwing a Republican under the bus, “journalists” (I use the term loosely) are more than happy to oblige.

This is wrong on all levels. Yes– I think the entire investigation is a witch hunt, but I have absolutely no tolerance for FAKE sexual assault accusations. It’s so messed up.

h/t The Atlantic