1.1 Durham - Sussman Indictment

<p>On Thursday, 16 September 2021 the DOJ’s special council office releases the following statement Grand jury indicts DC attorney with making false statements to the FBI !  Let’s see what has been released and dig a bit deeper into this intriguing case as we continue discovery with the Durham Files on Signal not noise</p><p> </p><p>Special counsel John Durham announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Michael Sussman, a Washington DC based attorney with making a full statement to the FBI regarding a secret channel of communications between the trump organisation and a Russian entity,  Alpha Bank.</p><p> </p><p>So who is Michael Sussman? you won’t be surprised to hear that he is a lawyer from the firm Perkins Cooee.  He was previously employed by the US Department of justice in various capacities and in these roles he became familiar with US criminal law including title 18 US C section 1001 which criminalises making materially false statements to US Officials specifically. In April 2016 he was retained by the DNC (Democratic national committee) to represent them in connection with the alleged hacking of its email service by the Russian government where he communicated regularly with the FBI DOJ and other government agencies. He was also advising the Clinton campaign in connection with cyber security issues.</p><p>So I would also like you to meet two people that are very important in this sequence of events.</p><p>First off is Rodney Joffe. Rodney is the retired senior vice president and security chief technology officer for Neustar which provides Internet and related services to more than 8000 commercial and government clients around the world. Funnily enough Josh was temporarily offered the top cyber security job by the Democrats when it look like they would win he also added I definitely would not take the job under Trump</p><p>Next is April Lorenzo who has founded two tech firms. Her companies have been contracted with by the US Department of homeland security and other agenci