Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment - Stundin

[David Barrett]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 6:45 PM jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> https://stundin.is/grein/13627/
>
>
> "Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to
> fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks
> founder. The witness, who has a documented history with sociopathy and has
> received several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and wide-ranging
> financial fraud, made the admission in a newly published interview in
> Stundin where he also confessed to having continued his crime spree whilst
> working with the Department of Justice and FBI and receiving a promise of
> immunity from prosecution."
>
> "The man in question, Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, was recruited by US
> authorities to build a case against Assange after misleading them to
> believe he was previously a close associate of his. In fact he had
> volunteered on a limited basis to raise money for Wikileaks in 2010 but was
> found to have used that opportunity to embezzle more than $50,000 from the
> organization. Julian Assange was visiting Thordarson’s home country of
> Iceland around this time due to his work with Icelandic media and members
> of parliament in preparing the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a press
> freedom project that produced a parliamentary resolution supporting
> whistleblowers and investigative journalism."
>
> (End of quote)
>
This is a great find!  I'm sure Assange's lawyers will make good use of
this, when he shows up in court.

-david
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