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On April 20, 2007 Uranium One acquired UrAsia Energy, a Canadian firm with headquarters in Vancouver, from [[Frank Giustra]], who then resigned from the UrAsia Energy Board of Directors.<ref name="nyt20080131">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html|title=After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton|last1=Becker|first1=Jo|date=January 31, 2008|work=The New York Times|access-date=October 28, 2017|last2=Van Natta Jr.|first2=Don|quote=The monster deal stunned the mining industry, turning an unknown shell company into one of the world's largest uranium producers in a transaction ultimately worth tens of millions of dollars to Mr. Giustra, analysts said.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/uranium-one-and-urasia-energy-announce-combination-to-create-emerging-senior-uranium-company-533382081.html|title=Uranium One and UrAsia Energy Announce Combination to Create Emerging Senior Uranium Company|website=www.newswire.ca|accessdate=30 March 2018}}</ref> Having severed ties with UrAsia Energy and Uranium One in 2007, Giustra had no evident beneficial interest in the firm's subsequent sale to [[Rosatom]] in 2010. UrAsia has interests in rich uranium operations in Kazakhstan,<ref name="WISEUrAsia">[http://www.wise-uranium.org/ucura.html "UrAsia Energy Ltd."] updated April 21, 2007, accessed April 23, 2015</ref> and UrAsia Energy's acquisition of its Kazakhstan uranium interests from [[Kazatomprom]] followed a trip to [[Almaty]] in 2005 by Giustra and former U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] where they met with [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]], the leader of Kazakhstan. Giustra denies reporting by ''The New York Times'' that he and Clinton traveled together to Almaty.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/statement-from-frank-giustra-founder-and-chairman-of-the-clinton-giustra-enterprise-partnership-canada-502399291.html|title=Statement from Frank Giustra, Founder and Chairman of the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (Canada)|last=(Canada)|first=Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership|website=www.prnewswire.com|accessdate=30 March 2018}}</ref> Substantial contributions to the [[Clinton Foundation]] by Giustra followed,<ref name="nyt20080131" /><ref name="NYT42115">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html|title=Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Company|author1=Jo Becker and Mike Mcintire|date=April 23, 2015|work=The New York Times|accessdate=April 23, 2015|quote=Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra orchestrated his first big uranium deal, with Mr. Clinton at his side.}}</ref> with Clinton, Giustra, and Mexican telecommunications billionaire Carlos Slim in 2007 establishing the Clinton Foundation's [[Clinton Foundation#Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative|Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative]] to combat poverty in the developing world.<ref name="SusGrowth">{{cite web|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/environment-clinton-poverty-mining-dc/clinton-mining-industry-launch-anti-poverty-effort-idUKN2139844220070621|title=Clinton, mining industry launch anti-poverty effort|last=Parsons|first=Claudia|date=June 22, 2007|access-date=October 22, 2017|agency=Reuters}}</ref> In addition to his initial pledge of $100 million, Giustra pledged to contribute half of his future earnings from mining to the initiative.<ref name="SusGrowth" /> There is no indication that Giustra was contemplating any transaction with Russian interests at the time he began donating to the Clinton Foundation in 2005; rather, he sold UrAsia Energy to Uranium One, a Canadian company, in 2007. That sale was completed two months before he made his pledges to the Clinton Foundation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/giustra-slim-donate-100-million-each-to-clinton-foundation/article20404756/|title=Giustra, Slim donate $100-million each to Clinton Foundation|publisher=|via=The Globe and Mail|accessdate=30 March 2018}}</ref>
On April 20, 2007 Uranium One acquired UrAsia Energy, a Canadian firm with headquarters in Vancouver, from [[Frank Giustra]], who then resigned from the UrAsia Energy Board of Directors.<ref name="nyt20080131">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html|title=After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton|last1=Becker|first1=Jo|date=January 31, 2008|work=The New York Times|access-date=October 28, 2017|last2=Van Natta Jr.|first2=Don|quote=The monster deal stunned the mining industry, turning an unknown shell company into one of the world's largest uranium producers in a transaction ultimately worth tens of millions of dollars to Mr. Giustra, analysts said.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/uranium-one-and-urasia-energy-announce-combination-to-create-emerging-senior-uranium-company-533382081.html|title=Uranium One and UrAsia Energy Announce Combination to Create Emerging Senior Uranium Company|website=www.newswire.ca|accessdate=30 March 2018}}</ref> Having severed ties with UrAsia Energy and Uranium One in 2007, Giustra had no evident beneficial interest in the firm's subsequent sale to [[Rosatom]] in 2010. UrAsia has interests in rich uranium operations in Kazakhstan,<ref name="WISEUrAsia">[http://www.wise-uranium.org/ucura.html "UrAsia Energy Ltd."] updated April 21, 2007, accessed April 23, 2015</ref> and UrAsia Energy's acquisition of its Kazakhstan uranium interests from [[Kazatomprom]] followed a trip to [[Almaty]] in 2005 by Giustra and former U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] where they met with [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]], the leader of Kazakhstan. Giustra denies reporting by ''The New York Times'' that he and Clinton traveled together to Almaty.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/statement-from-frank-giustra-founder-and-chairman-of-the-clinton-giustra-enterprise-partnership-canada-502399291.html|title=Statement from Frank Giustra, Founder and Chairman of the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (Canada)|last=(Canada)|first=Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership|website=www.prnewswire.com|accessdate=30 March 2018}}</ref> Substantial contributions to the [[Clinton Foundation]] by Giustra followed,<ref name="nyt20080131" /><ref name="NYT42115">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html|title=Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Company|author1=Jo Becker and Mike Mcintire|date=April 23, 2015|work=The New York Times|accessdate=April 23, 2015|quote=Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra orchestrated his first big uranium deal, with Mr. Clinton at his side.}}</ref> with Clinton, Giustra, and Mexican telecommunications billionaire Carlos Slim in 2007 establishing the Clinton Foundation's [[Clinton Foundation#Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative|Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative]] to combat poverty in the developing world.<ref name="SusGrowth">{{cite web|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/environment-clinton-poverty-mining-dc/clinton-mining-industry-launch-anti-poverty-effort-idUKN2139844220070621|title=Clinton, mining industry launch anti-poverty effort|last=Parsons|first=Claudia|date=June 22, 2007|access-date=October 22, 2017|agency=Reuters}}</ref> In addition to his initial pledge of $100 million, Giustra pledged to contribute half of his future earnings from mining to the initiative.<ref name="SusGrowth" /> There is no indication that Giustra was contemplating any transaction with Russian interests at the time he began donating to the Clinton Foundation in 2005; rather, he sold UrAsia Energy to Uranium One, a Canadian company, in 2007. That sale was completed two months before he made his pledges to the Clinton Foundation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/giustra-slim-donate-100-million-each-to-clinton-foundation/article20404756/|title=Giustra, Slim donate $100-million each to Clinton Foundation|publisher=|via=The Globe and Mail|accessdate=30 March 2018}}</ref>


Since uranium is considered a strategic asset with national security implications, the acquisition of Uranium One by Rosatom was reviewed by the [[Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States]] (CFIUS), a committee of nine government cabinet departments and agencies including the [[United States Department of State]], which was then headed by [[Hillary Clinton]]. Clinton herself did not sit on CFIUS, but rather the State Department was represented by Jose Fernandez, the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs, who stated that Clinton was not involved in the Uranium One matter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun/30/donald-trump/donald-trump-inaccurately-suggests-clinton-got-pai/|title=Did Clinton help Russia obtain uranium for donations? Nope|access-date=July 12, 2016}}</ref><ref name="nyt042315">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=1|title=Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal|last=Becker|first=Jo|date=April 23, 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|last2=McIntire|first2=Mike}}</ref><ref name="yf042315">{{cite web|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/clinton-foundation-received-millions-uranium-132500796.html|title=The Clinton Foundation received millions from investors as Putin took over 20% of US uranium deposits|last=Campbell|first=Colin|last2=Engel|first2=Pamela|date=April 23, 2015|website=Yahoo! Finance|access-date=August 31, 2016}}</ref> Although CFIUS members can object to such a foreign transaction, none did,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-shep-smith-hillary-clinton-scandal-the-uranium-one-deal-2017-11|title=Fox News anchor Shep Smith annihilates his network's favorite Hillary Clinton 'scandal,' the Uranium One deal|publisher=|accessdate=29 March 2018}}</ref> and no member can veto a decision; veto power rests solely with the president.<ref name=":30">{{cite web|url=http://www.factcheck.org/2015/04/no-veto-power-for-clinton-on-uranium-deal/|title=No 'Veto Power' for Clinton on Uranium Deal|last=Kiely|first=Eugene|date=April 28, 2015|website=factcheck.org|access-date=July 12, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.factcheck.org/2017/10/facts-uranium-one/|title=The Facts on Uranium One - FactCheck.org|date=26 October 2017|publisher=|accessdate=29 March 2018}}</ref> CFIUS unanimously approved the Uranium One sale.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/prosecutors-ask-fbi-agents-info-uranium-one-deal-n831436|title=Attorney General Sessions orders fresh look at Uranium One deal|publisher=|accessdate=30 March 2018}}</ref> The Utah Division of Radiation Control and Canada’s foreign investment review agency also approved the transaction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=50850101&itype=CMSID|title=Uranium company deal nearly done|publisher=|accessdate=29 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://time.com/3831794/clinton-allies-knock-down-donor-allegations-new-questions-pop-up/|title=Clinton Allies Knock Down Donor Allegations, New Questions Pop Up|website=Time|accessdate=29 March 2018}}</ref>
Since uranium is considered a strategic asset with national security implications and Uranium One owned uranium mining operations in the United States, the acquisition of Uranium One by Rosatom was reviewed by the [[Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States]] (CFIUS), a committee of nine government cabinet departments and agencies including the [[United States Department of State]], which was then headed by [[Hillary Clinton]]. Clinton herself did not sit on CFIUS, but rather the State Department was represented by Jose Fernandez, the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs, who stated that Clinton was not involved in the Uranium One matter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun/30/donald-trump/donald-trump-inaccurately-suggests-clinton-got-pai/|title=Did Clinton help Russia obtain uranium for donations? Nope|access-date=July 12, 2016}}</ref><ref name="nyt042315">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=1|title=Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal|last=Becker|first=Jo|date=April 23, 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|last2=McIntire|first2=Mike}}</ref><ref name="yf042315">{{cite web|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/clinton-foundation-received-millions-uranium-132500796.html|title=The Clinton Foundation received millions from investors as Putin took over 20% of US uranium deposits|last=Campbell|first=Colin|last2=Engel|first2=Pamela|date=April 23, 2015|website=Yahoo! Finance|access-date=August 31, 2016}}</ref> Although CFIUS members can object to such a foreign transaction, none did,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-shep-smith-hillary-clinton-scandal-the-uranium-one-deal-2017-11|title=Fox News anchor Shep Smith annihilates his network's favorite Hillary Clinton 'scandal,' the Uranium One deal|publisher=|accessdate=29 March 2018}}</ref> and no member can veto a decision; veto power rests solely with the president.<ref name=":30">{{cite web|url=http://www.factcheck.org/2015/04/no-veto-power-for-clinton-on-uranium-deal/|title=No 'Veto Power' for Clinton on Uranium Deal|last=Kiely|first=Eugene|date=April 28, 2015|website=factcheck.org|access-date=July 12, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.factcheck.org/2017/10/facts-uranium-one/|title=The Facts on Uranium One - FactCheck.org|date=26 October 2017|publisher=|accessdate=29 March 2018}}</ref> CFIUS unanimously approved the Uranium One sale.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/prosecutors-ask-fbi-agents-info-uranium-one-deal-n831436|title=Attorney General Sessions orders fresh look at Uranium One deal|publisher=|accessdate=30 March 2018}}</ref> The Utah Division of Radiation Control and Canada’s foreign investment review agency also approved the transaction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=50850101&itype=CMSID|title=Uranium company deal nearly done|publisher=|accessdate=29 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://time.com/3831794/clinton-allies-knock-down-donor-allegations-new-questions-pop-up/|title=Clinton Allies Knock Down Donor Allegations, New Questions Pop Up|website=Time|accessdate=29 March 2018}}</ref>


== 2010 ==
== 2010 ==

Revision as of 01:47, 22 November 2018

Not to be confused with Uranium One.

The Uranium One controversy refers to the sale of Uranium One to Rosatom, which American conservative media and Republican politicians characterized as a bribery scandal involving Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. No evidence of wrongdoing has been found after three years of allegations, an FBI investigation, and the 2017 appointment of a Federal Attorney to evaluate the investigation.

Since the 2015 publication of the book Clinton Cash by Breitbart News editor and Steve Bannon collaborator Peter Schweizer, as well as a 2015 New York Times article,[1] allegations of a bribery scheme involving Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation and the 2010 sale of Uranium One have persisted, primarily in conservative media. Despite nearly three years of discussion and analysis of the matter — as well as an FBI investigation[2] — no evidence of any quid pro quo or other wrong-doing has surfaced. Numerous Republican politicians and pundits, including President Donald Trump, have insisted that the Clinton-Uranium One story is the "real" Russian scandal, rather than the matters for which Trump is being investigated.[3][4][5]

Timeline of events

2007

Uranium One acquired UrAsia Energy

On April 20, 2007 Uranium One acquired UrAsia Energy, a Canadian firm with headquarters in Vancouver, from Frank Giustra, who then resigned from the UrAsia Energy Board of Directors.[6][7] Having severed ties with UrAsia Energy and Uranium One in 2007, Giustra had no evident beneficial interest in the firm's subsequent sale to Rosatom in 2010. UrAsia has interests in rich uranium operations in Kazakhstan,[8] and UrAsia Energy's acquisition of its Kazakhstan uranium interests from Kazatomprom followed a trip to Almaty in 2005 by Giustra and former U.S. President Bill Clinton where they met with Nursultan Nazarbayev, the leader of Kazakhstan. Giustra denies reporting by The New York Times that he and Clinton traveled together to Almaty.[9] Substantial contributions to the Clinton Foundation by Giustra followed,[6][10] with Clinton, Giustra, and Mexican telecommunications billionaire Carlos Slim in 2007 establishing the Clinton Foundation's Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative to combat poverty in the developing world.[11] In addition to his initial pledge of $100 million, Giustra pledged to contribute half of his future earnings from mining to the initiative.[11] There is no indication that Giustra was contemplating any transaction with Russian interests at the time he began donating to the Clinton Foundation in 2005; rather, he sold UrAsia Energy to Uranium One, a Canadian company, in 2007. That sale was completed two months before he made his pledges to the Clinton Foundation.[12]

Since uranium is considered a strategic asset with national security implications and Uranium One owned uranium mining operations in the United States, the acquisition of Uranium One by Rosatom was reviewed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a committee of nine government cabinet departments and agencies including the United States Department of State, which was then headed by Hillary Clinton. Clinton herself did not sit on CFIUS, but rather the State Department was represented by Jose Fernandez, the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs, who stated that Clinton was not involved in the Uranium One matter.[13][14][15] Although CFIUS members can object to such a foreign transaction, none did,[16] and no member can veto a decision; veto power rests solely with the president.[17][18] CFIUS unanimously approved the Uranium One sale.[19] The Utah Division of Radiation Control and Canada’s foreign investment review agency also approved the transaction.[20][21]

2010

$500,000 payment to Bill Clinton

On June 29, 2010 Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin and which was promoting Uranium One stock, paid Bill Clinton $500,000 for a speech in Moscow shortly after the Rosatom acquisition of Uranium One was announced.[14][15]

2015

Donation to Clinton Foundation

On April 23, 2015 The New York Times wrote that, during the acquisition, the family foundation of Uranium One's chairman made $2.35 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation. The donations were legal but not publicly disclosed by the Clinton Foundation, despite an agreement with the White House to disclose all contributors.[22] In a follow-up story six days later, The Times clarified that the donations went to "the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (Canada), [which] operates in parallel to a Clinton Foundation project called the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, which is expressly covered by an agreement Mrs. Clinton signed to make all donors public while she led the State Department. However, the foundation maintains that the Canadian partnership is not bound by that agreement and that under Canadian law contributors’ names cannot be made public."[23]

Clinton Cash

In his May 5, 2015 book Clinton Cash, the Breitbart News editor and Steve Bannon associate Peter Schweizer asserted that the Clinton Foundation received $145 million in pledges and donations in exchange for Hillary Clinton's support of the Uranium One deal. This assertion has been repeated numerous times across conservative media, particularly by Sean Hannity, as evidence of a bribery scheme. However, $31 million of this amount was donated by Frank Giustra in 2005, and another $100 million pledged by him in 2007, the latter amount after he had severed ties with Uranium One. Both cases occurred years before any prospective Uranium One sale to Russian interests was known, and well before anyone knew Hillary Clinton would join the Obama administration in 2009 and might have any role in approving such a deal. PolitiFact identified about $4 million in donations from various Uranium One investors in the years before and after the Russian deal, but these amounts do not appear to be unusual compared to amounts that countless other donors have made to the Clinton Foundation.[24][25][26]

2016

FBI investigate Clinton Foundation

By August 2016, the FBI had begun to confidentially investigate the Clinton Foundation, based largely on Schweizer's book and reporting by The New York Times, but they failed to find much evidence to support corruption allegations.[2] As the investigation lay dormant, Attorney General Jeff Sessions in December 2017 ordered Justice Department prosecutors to ask FBI investigators about the evidence they had gathered. Sessions was responding to demands of Republican members of Congress for a special counsel to be appointed to investigate Uranium One and other matters relating to Hillary Clinton and the FBI.[27] CNN reported on March 29, 2018 that Sessions had appointed John W. Huber, the United States Attorney for the District of Utah, to investigate "a cluster of Republican-driven accusations against the FBI," which includes allegations that the FBI acted inappropriately in two matters involving Hillary Clinton, including her emails and the sale of Uranium One to Rosatom. In a letter to three Republican Congressional committee chairmen, Sessions said he would rely on Huber's findings to decide if a special counsel needed to be appointed. Huber had been investigating the matters for a time, but his involvement had not previously been disclosed.[28]

Several members of Clinton's State Department staff and officials from the Obama-era Department of Justice have said that CFIUS reviews are handled by civil servants and that it would be unlikely that Clinton would have had more than nominal involvement in her department's signing off on the acquisition.[29] According to Snopes, the timing of donations might have been questionable if Hillary Clinton had played a key role in approving the deal, but all evidence suggests that she did not and may in fact have had no role in approving the deal at all.[30]

2017

Investigation sale of Uranium One

In October 2017, following a report by John F. Solomon and Alison Spann published in The Hill and citing anonymous sources,[31][32] the House Intelligence Committee opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the sale of Uranium One.[29] The Hill reported, "There is no evidence in any of the public records that the FBI believed that the Clintons or anyone close to them did anything illegal. But there’s definitive evidence the Russians were seeking their influence with a specific eye on the State Department."

FactCheck.org reported that there was "no evidence" connecting the Uranium One–Rosatom merger deal with a money laundering and bribery case involving a different Rosatom subsidiary which resulted in the conviction of a Russian individual in 2015, contrary to what is implied in the Solomon-Spann story.[22][33] Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post wrote that the problem with some of the accusations that Republican commentators levied against Clinton is that she "by all accounts, did not participate in any discussions regarding the Uranium One sale."[34]

Lift gag order

In October 2017, President Trump directed the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to lift a "gag order" it had placed on a former FBI informant involved the investigation. The DOJ released the informant from his nondisclosure agreement on October 25, 2017,[35][36][37] authorizing him to provide the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, House Oversight Committee, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence "any information or documents he has concerning alleged corruption or bribery involving transactions in the uranium market" involving Rosatom, its subsidiaries Tenex and Uranium One, and the Clinton Foundation.[38] The informant's lawyer said that the informant "can tell what all the Russians were talking about during the time that all these bribery payments were made."[39] During a C-SPAN interview, Hillary Clinton said that any allegations that she was bribed to approve the Uranium One deal were "baloney."[40] On November 16, 2017, William Douglas Campbell identified himself as the FBI informant. He is a former lobbyist for Tenex, the US-based arm of Russia's Rosatom.[41][42] On March 8, 2018 The Hill reported, "A confidential informant [Campbell] billed by House Republicans as having “explosive” information about the 2010 Uranium One deal approved during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of State provided “no evidence of a quid pro quo” involving Clinton, Democratic staff said in a summary of the informant’s closed-door testimony obtained by The Hill on Thursday."[43] CNN reported that the summary document also stated that the Justice Department had expressed concerns about Campbell's credibility due to "inconsistencies between Campbell's statements and documents" in a separate investigation in 2015.[44]

In November 2017, Shepard Smith of Fox News described President Trump's accusations against Clinton regarding Uranium One "inaccurate in a number of ways." Smith said that the sale of Uranium One was "not a Hillary Clinton approval" but instead a unanimous decision by the nine cabinet-level department heads of CFIUS, approved by the president and with permits issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Smith added that "most of the Clinton Foundation donations" came from Frank Giustra, who said he "sold his stake in the company" three years before it was sold to Russia. Lastly, Smith noted that "none of the uranium was exported for use by the U.S. to Russia."[45][46][47]

2018

Alleged indictment FBI probe

In January 2018, The New York Post, apparently following a story from a questionable conservative news site, reported "There’s an indictment in the FBI probe of the Uranium One scandal...,"[48] and The Hill cited the Post's story the next day with "A grand jury reportedly brought charges in the Uranium One investigation..."[49] PolitiFact determined that the three stories were false.[50]

Appointment John W. Huber as U.S. Attorney

In March 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions revealed that in 2017 he had declined to appoint a special counsel to investigate, among other matters, the alleged connections between Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation and, instead, had appointed John W. Huber, U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah, to look into whether further investigation is warranted.[51][52][53]

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