The US Federal Police (FBI) has opened an investigation to determine whether individuals have tried to discredit the special prosecutor Robert Mueller by paying women to charge him with sexual assault, said Tuesday the services of the magistrate in charge of the delicate Russian investigation.
“When we learned last week that women had been offered money to make false accusations against the special prosecutor, we immediately asked the FBI to investigate,” AFP told AFP. Attorney Mueller’s statement, Peter Carr.
The spokesman did not give further details on the case, but this communication, rare on the part of the team of investigators, shows that it takes this case seriously.
The information site The Hill reported being contacted, like other American media, by a woman who introduced herself as having worked in the 1970s with Robert Mueller.
In an email, she said a man had offered her $ 20,000 to charge the 74-year-old prosecutor with harassment and sexual assault.
This man introduced himself as the collaborator of a right-wing lobbyist and radio presenter, Jack Burkman, again wrote this woman to them without revealing his identity.
But Jack Burkman assured on October 20 on his Facebook page that he held explosive information on the prosecutor Mueller. Accusing him of alcoholism, he assured to have seven testimonies of women having been assaulted by the magistrate during the last forty years.
Burkman announced Tuesday that he would present the first alleged victim of Mueller on Thursday. “It will reveal a very serious sexual assault. And others will follow, “he said on his Facebook page.
“Robert Mueller is a bad person, not only for what he does in a court, but also for what he does outside,” he added, adding that the prosecutor had “hurt to many women.
A former Marine officer and wounded in action during the Vietnam War, Robert Mueller had important responsibilities in the US judicial system before being a FBI director for twelve years, from 2001 to 2013.
Described as an austere and methodical man, he was charged in 2017 to investigate including suspicions of collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s campaign team in the 2016 presidential election.
His investigation strongly irritates the Republican billionaire who claims to be a victim of a “witch hunt”.
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