Plot to smear Robert Mueller unravels as FBI is asked to investigate
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The plot first came to light through one of the emails referred to the FBI, sent to journalists on October 17 by a woman named Lorraine Parsons who said that a man had contacted her with questions about Mueller because she had worked as a paralegal with him at a law firm in 1974.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has been the subject of an attempted smear campaign.
She said the man, whom she identified as Bill Christensen and said had a British accent, contacted her a second time and offered her more than $US50,000 ($70,000) to “make accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment against Robert Mueller”. To get the money, he said, she would need to sign an affidavit and promised a $US10,000 bonus if she did so quickly.
The man added that he was working for Jack Burkman, a Republican lawyer. Parsons said she declined the financial offer and hung up the phone.
She identified herself to at least two news media outlets who received her email as Lorraine D. Parsons of Fort Myers, Florida, but the New York Times could not find her.
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