It appears that Nunberg was interviewed by the Mueller investigators on Thursday February 22, 2018.  Here is the link to the NY Times story.   Link> Nunberg to be interviewed.

You might recall that Nunberg was the Trump aid fired in August 2015 for a 2007 racist Facebook post related to Al Sharpton’s daughter.  Here is the August 3, 2015 NY Times story. Link> Aug. 3, 2015 NY Times.

New York — Donald Trump reached a confidential settlement with a former political consultant he accused of violating a nondisclosure agreement, concluding his latest attempt to use the legal system to enforce the silence of his employees.

Trump launched the legal dispute with Sam Nunberg in late May by seeking $10 million in damages from the former aide in a private arbitration proceeding. Nunberg responded by filing a countersuit in New York state court last month.

On Friday, attorneys on both sides declined to provide further details about the settlement.

“All I can say it that it was amicably resolved, the whole dispute,” said Alan Garten, general counsel for the Trump Organization.

Nunberg’s attorney, Andrew Miltenberg, issued a similar statement in an email to The Associated Press. Nunberg declined to comment on the details of the settlement, saying only that his court case and the arbitration were resolved.

Nunberg served as a consultant to Trump’s campaign until about a year ago when he was fired for racist comments he posted on Facebook.

Trump, who has said he rarely settles lawsuits, has made a point of pursuing legal action to aggressively enforce confidentiality agreements.

The Associated Press reported earlier this year that nearly every Trump employee must sign legally binding nondisclosure agreements. The agreements bar them from releasing any confidential or disparaging information about the real estate mogul, his family or his companies.

A copy of Nunberg’s agreement, which became public as part of a counter lawsuit he filed against Trump, covered all of Trump’s children including his 10-year-old son, Barron.

In Nunberg’s case, Trump accused him of making disparaging comments and leaking confidential information to reporters. Trump made the claims in private arbitration, another common requirement written into his confidentiality agreements that seeks to keep the details of the disputes from a public airing in court.

But in response to Trump’s claims, Nunberg filed a lawsuit in New York state court last month, making the details of the arbitration public. In the lawsuit, Nunberg denied that he had disparaged Trump and accused Trump of trying to bully him into silence him because he chose to support Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the GOP primary.

Nunberg said Trump falsely accused him of being the source of a New York Post story that detailed a public spat between former Trump campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, and campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks. Nunberg referred to the quarrel as evidence of “an apparent affair,” an allegation that Trump’s attorneys have called “categorically untrue.”

Nunberg has been an outspoken critic of Lewandowski, who Trump fired in June.

In a GQ Magazine article earlier this year, Nunberg was quoted as saying he would suck the “blood out of (Lewandowski’s) skull by the time I’m done with him.”

 

 

 

First, I’m guessing Twitter will move to shut me up for good. So watch this space. I may be starting my own Rojava news service.  Also watch my Face Book account Tawan Ceng (“War Crimes”) exposing Afrin war crimes. I’m cross posting to that site.

Here is why Twitter’s management should all see their own attorneys.

This is a page from Manafort’s recent superseding indictment. See para. 39.

Continue reading “Is Twitter censoring accounts for foreign powers? Isn’t that a FARA violation and revenue from it in US banks is money laundering? Ask Manafort. @FBI” →

Everything points to Trump using Tillerson to pick up where Flynn left off to work Trump family deals with al-Qaeda affiliated AKP and Erdogan.

In support of my thesis is that fact that I went to UMass Amherst. While in attendance, I had three Marxist instructors, one former Marxist professor purged by the Soviets from the University of Moscow plus an anarchist legal studies professor.

 

 

 

Though I’m not familiar with extradition law generally and in particular European extradition law, I will try to show some of the materials I was able to find online ahead of Tuesday’s 11:00a.m. hearing.

It appears that the Czech Republic is a member of the “European Convention on Extradition.”  So is Turkey.

Here is a link to the Czech Republic’s National Procedures that detail some of the procedures that are used there. Link >Czech Republic – National Procedures for Extradition.

Here is a link to the full text of Link >European Convention on Extradition.

Continue reading “Remember what happened when #Turkey tried to extradite Fetulah #Gulen? Nothing. Discussion of #Czech Republic Extradition.” →

Here is my 2015 post to the #CIA World Fact Book map that in 1976 before the           Hafez al-Assad Arabization ethnic cleansing that shows that Afrin was Kurdish.

Continue reading “Was #SalehMuslim seized to block US from indicting #Erdogan and/or his associates in #Zarrab case?” →

Turkish media are reporting that Turkey intends to continue its aggression in Afrin in the face of the UNSC ceasefire.

In 1947, the U.N. voted to create Israel and Palestine and determined Jerusalem was capital of both states. Israel agreed to the concept termed, in Latin, “corpus separatum” or “separated body.” The Arab states rejected the plan, choosing, instead, to settle the issue with war. Later, when war failed, there was an effort to return to the concept of treating Jerusalem as a special international entity but nothing ever came of it. Time passed with no solution.

In October 1973, Israel’s neighbors attacked in the Yom Kipur War. I remember the calls for volunteers to help stem what, in the early days, appeared to be a rout and end of the Jewish state.  Then a few Israeli tanks crossed the Suez Canal and cut off the Egyptian supply lines to the Egyptian troops in the Sinai Dessert.  A clock began to tick that forced the world to seek a prompt cessation of fighting to prevent the tragedy of thousands of Egyptian soldiers dying of thirst in the Sinai, a looming specter that was justifying the U.S.S.R. becoming involved in the conflict, and the ultimate fear of a nuclear war. While Kissinger scrambled to cut deal, at the other end of the vast battlefield, Israeal was solidifying its control of Jerusalem.

Now, 45 years after the Yom Kippur War and 70 years after the U.N. voted to create Israel, most Americans accept, without question, the idea that Jerusalem is solely a part of Israel.   The problem is the Islamic world has never accepted the concept.  Also, if military gains are necessarily permanent, then why don’t the U.S. and Britain control all of Western Europe and the Russians the rest? The reason is that military gains are not, in a modern civilized world, permanent.  When one nation seeks permanent gain from war all that generally results is another war.

President Obama, in his visit to Israel, spoke to Israeli college students and implored them to put themselves in the Palestinians’ shoes. We all need to put ourselves in their shoes.  If we conclude we need to consider Jerusalem capital of Israel then why not the capital of Palestine too?  That is what the laws passed by the U.N. in 1947 provided, the same laws that created the Jewish and Palestinian states. It was recognized, back then, that all people should be free to visit Jerusalem and pray there, but only in peace and only in a world that accepted Israel’s right to exist.  Any claim that the Palestinians should remain stateless cannot withstand the historical fact that both Israel and Palestine were born of the same act.  If Iran continues to threaten Israel despite peace with its neighbors and justice for the Palestinians, the U.S. and Israel will need, more than ever, the support of the moderates in the region to meet that threat.

Jerusalem was and is the central issue in the Mideast conflict.  The US may lose the alliances with the moderate Islamic states like Jordan, Egypt, the Gulf Emirates and Saudi Arabia, if we turn our backs on the Palestinians.   At the time of the Yom Kippur War Israel was seen as a wedge to be used against Soviet Union’s influence in the region. Now, the thing that stops us from acting to limit our reaction to Russia is our concern for the impact on Israel.

This move will have a cost. From a realpolitik perspective,  the cost, political and economic, of the United States alliance with Israel may no longer be justified based on a strategic benefit to the United States.  The cost is justified based on U.S. domestic politics and a perceived shared ideology.  Ironically, domestic politics and shared ideology are the same forces that drive the political and social ideology in adjacent Islamic states towards supporting continued conflict.