Thread: Trump ally detained, served with Mueller subpoena at Boston airport

Trump ally detained, served with Mueller subpoena at Boston airport

Ted Malloch said FBI agents asked him about Roger Stone and WikiLeaks.
by Tom Winter / Mar.30.2018 / 2:49 PM ET

Ted Malloch during an interview in London on Feb. 9, 2017.Frank Augstein / AP

A professor and author who once presented himself as a possible Trump administration ambassador to the European Union was detained and questioned by the FBI at Boston Logan airport and served a subpoena from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is probing possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.

Ted Malloch said in an emailed statement to NBC News that he was flying from his home in the U.K. via Boston to Cleveland, Ohio to celebrate Easter when he was stopped Wednesday, an incident first reported by the Guardian.

NBC News has independently confirmed that Malloch was detained and questioned at the airport, but not the details of the encounter.

According to Malloch, when he exited his flight from London he was taken aside by a TSA official and an FBI agent, and separated from his wife.

Malloch said two FBI agents then told him he was being detained to answer questions related to the special counsel's investigation.
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He said they told him it was a felony to lie to the FBI and he told them he would "gladly" cooperate with them. According to Malloch, the agents also produced a document allowing them to seize and search his cellphone.

At first, said Malloch, the agents questioned him about his career, showed him a color photograph of himself, and asked about his affection for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Then, said Malloch, "The questions got more detailed about my involvement in the Trump campaign (which was informal and unpaid); whom I communicated with; whom I knew and how well — they had a long list of names."

He said they asked him about former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone, author Jerome Corsi and WikiLeaks. Malloch said he told them he met Stone a total of three times and always with groups of people, and that Corsi had helped edit one of his books years ago.

He said he was asked if he had ever visited the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been living since 2012, and he replied no.

Malloch also said the agents served him a subpoena from Mueller's team that had been issued that day, March 28, and that he later arranged with the Special Counsel's Office to appear for questioning on April 13.

"What could they want from me — a policy wonk and philosophical defender of Trump?" said Malloch. "I am not an operative, have no Russia contacts, and—aside from appearing on air and in print often to defend and congratulate our President — have done nothing wrong. What message does this send?"

A spokesperson for the Special Counsel's Office would not comment on Malloch's statement or whether or not Malloch was questioned.

In November 2016, after Trump's upset victory in the presidential election, Malloch told the BBC he had been consulted by Trump throughout the campaign. He told reporters in early 2017 that he had interviewed for the position of U.S. ambassador to the EU twice. That position was vacated in January 2017 and is still vacant.

The Trump administration told reporters that Malloch had never been considered for the position.

Malloch has described the EU as having "evil" origins and compared it to the Soviet Union.

A former professor at the University of Reading in the U.K. and the author of several books, he has a book coming out in May called "The Plot to Destroy Trump: How the Deep State Fabricated the Russian Dossier to Subvert the President."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...irport-n861456

I never thought I would live long enough to see the DOJ become the new Gestapo. There was no legal basis for this "subpoena". There's not even a defined crime to begin with. For any American to be stopped anywhere, let alone at an airport to be questioned about their political activities in support of a President, to have their cell phone scanned, their privacy invaded, their travel disrupted, and be detained by the FBI under a subpoena makes McCathyism look like play-doh. This has to stop and stop now.

If Mueller wants to know who hacked the DNC, he needs to request Seth Rich's telephone and computer along with every single FBI agent. Seth Rich didn't "hack", he downloaded and sent. That's between him and the DNC. The FBI "hacked" the DNC posing as Russians, that's how the FBI knew or said the DNC had been hacked before the DNC knew it had been hacked. That's why they never asked for the DNC server. The FBI already has everything on the DNC server and didn't need the server.

I'm telling you, every single agent in the FBI who knows anything about this travesty against our country by the FBI needs to be stepping forward right now with Nunes Intelligence Committee and Goodlatte's Judiciary Committee and start spilling the beans, all of it, right here and right now.

Ted Malloch

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Ted Malloch
Theodore Roosevelt Malloch
Born	Theodore Roosevelt Malloch September 22, 1952 (age 65) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education	Gordon College (B.A., 1974) University of Aberdeen (MLitt., 1975) University of Toronto (Ph.D., 1980)
Occupation	CEO and Professor
Spouse(s)	Beth Ellen
Website	www.tedmalloch.com

Theodore Roosevelt Malloch (born September 22, 1952) is an American author, consultant, and television producer. He was a professor at the Henley Business School of the University of Reading, England.^[1]Malloch is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the family firm Global Fiduciary Governance and served as Chairman and CEO of The Roosevelt Group. He is author of several books including Doing Virtuous Business.^[2]

In February 2017 Malloch was reported to be a candidate for ambassadorship to the EU.^[3] This prompted unusually strong disapproval from EU politicians.^[4] That same month, the Financial Times reported that he had made a number of false statements in his autobiography, and in a second article corrected further inaccuracies made by Malloch in a Breitbart article.<sup>[5][6][7] . . .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Malloch</sup>

Ted Malloch 'made false statements' to two US banks - Financial Times
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Mar 2, 2017 - Ted Malloch, a professor at Henley Business School who wants to become Donald Trump's ambassador to the EU, made false statements to deceive two US banks into giving him multimillion-dollar loans, according to court documents. Legal papers obtained by the Financial Times reveal Mr Malloch and ...

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Donald Trump's likely EU ambassador Ted Malloch 'made false statements' to banks to obtain millions in loans

When he filed for bankruptcy in 2013, he said he had just $152,000 and therefore could not repay the outstanding debt of $5.9m

• Ben Chapman
• @b_c_chapman
• Friday 3 March 2017 17:34 GMT
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The Independent Online

In February Oxford university accused Mr Malloch of falsely claiming to be a fellow at two of its colleges BBC
Ted Malloch, a professor tipped to become Donald Trump’s ambassador to the EU, reportedly made false statements to deceive two US banks into giving him multimillion-dollar loans, then later declared himself bankrupt.

Mr Malloch and his wife Beth falsely stated they had £36.3m in assets in order to take out the loans, according to court documents seen by the Financial Times.

When the couple filed for bankruptcy in 2013, the couple said they had just $152,000 and therefore could not repay the outstanding debt of $5.9m.

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The US court ruled in favour of the banks and said that the couple had acted with the intent to deceive when making their applications.

The bank reportedly said in court documents that the couple had “failed to explain satisfactorily the loss of assets or deficiency of assets”. They had “falsely represented . . . the nature and value of their assets and did so for the purpose of deceiving [the bank] and/or obtaining loan approval and subsequent modifications thereof”.

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In February, Oxford University accused Mr Malloch of falsely claiming to be a fellow at two of its colleges. Mr Malloch’s autobiography also contains a number of misleading claims, including that he was called a “genius” by Margaret Thatcher and “knighted” by the Queen.

Mr Malloch also said last month that Greece is contemplating leaving the euro in favour of the US dollar.

According to the transcript of a translated interview with Greek local online news site ekathimerini.com, Mr Malloch claimed Greek economists are looking into taking on the US banknotes in a move that he said would “freak out” Germany.

He said: “I know some Greek economists who have even gone to leading think tanks in the US to discuss this topic and the question of dollarisation.

Mr Malloch, a strident Brexiteer, has indicated he is no fan of Brussels on several occasions.

In February, on BBC One's This Week, when asked why he wanted to be US ambassador to the EU, he said: "I had in a previous career a diplomatic post where I helped bring down the Soviet Union. So maybe there's another union that needs a little taming."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...-a7610346.html

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