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

[Karl]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, 7:40 PM David Barrett <dbarrett at expensify.com> wrote:

> 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
>

It's a great case study on unfair legal proceedings happening against
political targets.

>
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