The Atlantic reports on an alleged scheme to pay off women to fabricate sexual assault allegations against Special Counsel Robert Mueller. According to Mueller’s office, the scheme has been reported to the FBI for investigation.

“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,” a spokesperson for the Special Counsel said Tuesday.

Reporter Natasha Bertrand writes the special counsel’s attention to this scheme—which was brought to the office by a woman claiming she herself had been offered money to make up sexual harassment claims against Mueller—and its decision to release a rare statement about it indicates the seriousness with which the office is taking the purported scheme to discredit Mueller in the middle of an ongoing investigation.

Bertrand reports the unidentified woman told her via e-mail she was contacted by someone who she says told her, “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.”

The person who allegedly made the offer to the woman, conservative radio host Jack Burkman, has a history of making fantastically false allegations.

He launched his own private investigation into the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich, dangled uncorroborated claims of sexual harassment against a sitting member of Congress, and earlier this year offered $25,000 to FBI whistleblowers for any information exposing wrongdoing during the 2016 election.

When contacted by the Atlantic, Burkman denied knowing the woman who originally alerted journalists to the alleged scheme and called the FBI referral “a joke, mueller (sp) wants to deflect attention from his sex assault troubles by attacking me.” He added in a separate email that “on Thursday 1200 NOON ROSSYLN HOLIDAY INN we will present a very credible witness who will allege that Mr. Mueller committed against her a sexual assault.”

Mueller’s spokesman reiterated that the claims are false.

Reports have surfaced in recent days indicating that the Mueller investigation is tightening its noose around admitted dirty trickster Roger Stone concerning his awareness of WikiLeaks’ possession of hacked DNC e-mails.

Desperate people, doing desperate things?

 

By The Portly Pundit

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