Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith is overseeing the current investigation and impeachment of Donald Trump. But how USA Today reportedSmith “built [his] reputation” in his previous role overseeing the prosecution of former Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.). And according to Renzi himself, in exclusive comments to PJ Media, there is evidence linking Smith to illegal wiretapping, jury tampering, payments for perjury and other highly questionable behavior. the new published allegations leading Donald Trump to call Smith “crazy.”
Renzi he was convicted on charges of bribery and extortion, to which he pleaded “not guilty”, and was later given presidential pardon for Trump While a 2019 complaint and request for investigation filed on behalf of Renzi by the respected law firm Mayer Brown claims to provide evidence prosecutorial misconductthey were current Trump prosecutors Jack Smith and David Harbach more directly involved in allegations of misconduct, including a reported government payment offer, than was previously disclosed.
It includes the alleged prosecutorial conduct of Smith and his team, both the DOJ and the FBI illegal wiretapping, concealment of exculpatory and impeachment evidence, destruction of evidence and introduction of false witnesses before and during Renzi’s trial. “The prosecutorial misconduct of Jack Smith and his lead prosecutor in my case, David Harbach, is what led to the presidential pardon,” Trump gave him, the former congressman told PJ Media. He explained how he believes Smith and Harbach “tainted” his jury pool as they worked to exclude pro-life jurors, as Renzi is a pro-life father of twelve.
But Renzi had an even more explosive accusation to share, based on information his lawyers told him. Renzi said that “what Jack Smith and Harbach are known for is that they will offer some kind of secret incentive, some kind of compensation scheme … to cooperating witnesses in order to get them to not only face the accused, but also to spin a story”.
the evidence provided for in The Mayer Brown documents showed that Assistant United States Attorney for Arizona (AUSA) Gary Restaino and his team, working with Smith and Harbach, “repeatedly engaged in witness tampering by inducing the key witness, Phillip Aries , to change his testimony to match the false narrative contained in ‘Operation Águila'”.
The reward could have been, according to Aries himself at a later date, $10,000 or “up to $25,000, like winning the lottery,” Renzi explained, echoing his legal statements. The former congressman told PJ Media that Aries was going through “a divorce” and a “bankruptcy,” meaning he was vulnerable to a monetary offer. Renzi said there was a “secret slush fund in the Department of Justice” for the reward.
But according to Renzi, it wasn’t just a member or members of Smith’s team who offered Aries a bounty under Smith’s watch. Renzi made the bombshell claim to PJ Media based on what his lawyers told him: that Jack Smith not only knew about the payment offer but personally approved it. “According to my lawyers, [Smith] really approved and helped with the [payoff] offer, that depends on him,” explained Renzi. If true, this makes Smith squarely guilty of offering to bribe a witness to give false testimony. Smith and his team (including Harbach) “knowingly sponsored false jury testimony,” Renzi said.
by Renzi website, Abuse of power, details “Operation Eagle”, based on the evidence archived in 2019 by Kelly Kramer of Mayer Brown:
The government’s investigation was prompted by a fabricated dossier procured by the former president of Resolution Copper Company (a foreign-owned mining company) Bruno Hegner (a South African citizen) and Democratic lobbyist Ron Ober who together hired the former FBI agent Jim Ellroy to launch a covert plot they dubbed “Operation Eagle” to target Mr. Renzi in a shameless political “work of success”. Although the allegations in the dossier were false, the scheme was handed over to AUSA Gary Restaino, a staunch Democratic supporter whose wife was then-Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano. [D] general council
Kramer describes Napolitano as one of Renzi’s “fiercest political rivals” in the state of Arizona, who was also politically involved with Resolution’s “land swap proposals.” Kramer further wrote that Restaino eventually admitted to the existence of FBI records showing that the FBI had told Aries several times that he would have to pay taxes on any potential rewards for cooperation. As I noted in my previous article, Mayer Brown, the law firm that filed these allegations, is a Democratic firm. They were not helping the Republican Renzi by exposing the prosecutorial misconduct for political reasons.
What is particularly relevant about this evidence of Smith’s alleged offer to pay a witness is that the DOJ sought to influence a potential witness and his lawyers in the ongoing Trump investigation, which is under Smith’s supervision . In this case, however, the DOJ reportedly did not try to incentivize them with money, but with an apparent threat or warning. the guardian reported on June 8 about a complaint from attorney Stanley Woodward, attorney for Trump valet and co-defendant Walt Nauta:
The lawyer for Donald Trump’s valet, under scrutiny in the Mar-a-Lago documents probe, has filed court documents describing a meeting in which a top federal prosecutor submitted his request to be a judge when they tried get the cooperation of the valet last year. , according to three people familiar with the matter.
The guardian He explained that raising the issue by the prosecutor “in the context of trying to persuade a lawyer to recommend that a witness cooperate could give the appearance of coercion.” As noted above, Renzi told me that Smith and Harbach are “known to” incentivize potential witnesses in some way. Woodward’s claims could confirm the alleged pattern in the cases of Donald Trump and Walt Nauta.
Renzi told me that the ruling team had promised him a shorter jail term and fewer felony charges if he pleaded guilty, which he refused to do. He argued that Jack Smith and his team try to incentivize the accused to plead guilty and target the accused even more harshly if he does not comply.
Kramer by Mayer Brown he wrote in 2019, before sharing evidence of prosecutorial misconduct, “In my view, the government’s misconduct not only deprived Mr. Renzi of his constitutional right to a fair trial, but allowed the jury to convict an innocent man.”
As Renzi said, Smith and his prosecutors have a history of using a “two-tier justice system.” With newly revealed allegations tying Jack Smith and David Harbach directly to misconduct, especially Smith, whose current target is Donald Trump, this seems more dangerous. If Jack Smith really approved a reward for tampering with witness testimony, as Renzi claims, and if he oversaw political influence on the jury and illegal wiretapping, the same prosecutorial misconduct against President Donald Trump could occur.
English 
Español de Venezuela 