OH NO: New Court Filing in Russia Probe Includes Nude Selfie

Ok. It looks like we’re going to have to talk about this.

To begin with, a message to the young people reading from your Auntie Susan:

Youngsters, do NOT take nude selfies, for any amount of ego or peer pressure. Do not save them on your phone. Do not share them with friends. Do not allow others, even if they say they “love” you to take or have nude photos of you.

I don’t care if the Kardashians do it. The Kardashians and all their associates have garbage morals, basement level IQs, and are not to be emulated. You can do better, and there will be moments in your life where you regret allowing your dignity to be compromised.

Now, with that out of the way, let me speak to the more mature readers:

Hey, if it’s bad for the youth, it is equally as bad, or worse for you.

Think “Geraldo-Rivera-in-a-bathroom-mirror” bad.

You’re older. You’ve lived a bit, got some life experience under your belt, so you’ve got no excuse for making a boneheaded move that includes passing nudes around on your phone or in emails.

So I tell you all that to bring us around to this:

Special counsel Robert Mueller has somebody’s nudies.

As part of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, Mueller has not put borders around his work, but has also netted indictments against 25 Russians and a series of Russian companies that were found to be involved in the election meddling.

Concord Management and Catering is the latest, and they’re speaking up, protesting what they call a “novel adventure” on Mueller’s part.

That, and they really don’t want that nudie made public.

The lawyers for Concord approached the subject in a Thursday court filing.

“Could the manner in which he collected a nude selfie really threaten the national security of the United States,” Concord’s lawyers ask in the filing.

Their problem seems to be that Mueller wants to share this information with a judge, but he’s not ready to share that information with them, at the moment.

Concord again argues that the special counsel has a “make-believe case” and says its opposition is “likely fruitless” but “object we must both for Concord and every other defendant to whom the Special Counsel believes the laws and rules of the United States no longer apply to his novel adventures.”

Recently, Concord asked the judge to allow it to share information US investigators uncovered in the criminal case against the Russians social media scheme with a prominent Russian oligarch and others who perpetrated the alleged crime. So far, the judge has kept locked down as “sensitive “evidence in the case, because prosecutors fear unveiling details of their ongoing investigation and of their investigative tactics.

A nude selfie could certainly be called “sensitive.”

And then, of course, is what Mueller cites as evidence against the company and its involvement in the 2016 election interference.

Specifically, it deals with the political propaganda used across social media, with the intent of influencing voters.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, referred to as Putin’s chief, is a leader with Concord, and the company lawyers would like to show him what special counsel has against him.

They would also like to show other individuals involved in the case what Mueller has, because, they insist, it is written in Russian and it is just better if Russians translate it.

How nice of them.

Concord is pleading not guilty to conspiracy charges.

They’re one of 3 companies named in the suit, along with 13 other individuals.

Mueller responded to the request Concord made on December 21, saying that to make their argument, they’d like to submit classified material to the judge that’s both kept secret and protected from Concord’s lawyers’ view. They especially oppose Prigozhin from seeing the discovery.

So is it a nudie of Prigozhin?

We don’t know, but all things considered, that’s not even the weirdest twist to come out of this investigation.