Special counsel John Durham’s team says 'Tech Executive-1' Rodney Joffe, a former client of indicted Democratic cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann, remains the 'subject' of an 'ongoing' investigation.
Special counsel John Durham’s team says “Tech Executive-1” Rodney Joffe, a former client of indicted Democratic cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann, remains the “subject” of an “ongoing” investigation, hinting he is being scrutinized for possibly defrauding the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The special counsel’s filings reference Georgia Tech's"Agency-1 [DARPA] Contract." Durham’s indictment of Sussmann stated that if the FBI had been told the true origins of the Alfa-Bank claims, it might have learned Joffe “had enlisted, and was continuing to enlist, the assistance of researchers at a U.S.-based university who were receiving and analyzing Internet data in connection with a pending federal government cybersecurity research contract" through DARPA.
Sussmann lawyer Sean Berkowitz accused the prosecution on Wednesday of “overreach” by “telling a witness they could continue to face criminal liability.” He claimed, “There is no good faith perspective” of criminal liability related to the YotaPhone presentation to the CIA in February 2017. Berkowitz insisted the prosecution “should be able to make a decision about Mr. Joffe committing a crime” and called it a “tactical decision” by the prosecution to prevent Joffe from testifying.A spokesperson for Joffe told CNN the arguments by prosecutors are"baseless and reckless" and claimed Durham was promoting an"unfounded political narrative through false innuendo.” The spokesperson contended that Joffe “did not defraud or mislead any branch of the U.S. Government.
“The government did not refer to Joffe by name, nor did it include the names of his companies or associates,” Cooper wrote. “And, as the Special Counsel points out, the Indictment does not accuse Joffe of criminal wrongdoing or identify him as an uncharged co-conspirator. Indeed, no conspiracy is charged in the Indictment.”“The Special Counsel has made Rodney Joffe a cornerstone of its case against Mr.
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