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From: Kathy Ruemmler Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 4:22 PM To: jeffrey E. Subject: Fwd: Press: Heatstreat- 'Shady' Israeli Mogul Hires Ex-White House Counsel To Represent Employee Arrested in Inauguration Day Riot, Raising Questions Look at this craziness. =br> Begin forwarded message: From: Date: Janu T=: Subject: FW: Press: Heatstreat- iShady'=Israeli Mogul Hires Ex-White House Counsel To Represent Employee Arrested i= Inauguration Day Riot, Raising Questions =/span> From: Zu=eback, Jamie (DC) <mailto Date: Tuesday, Jan 24, 2017, 10:37 AM=/span> To: Ruemmler, Kathy (DC) <mailto > Subjec=: RE: Press: Heatstreat- 'Shady' Israeli Mogul Hires Ex-Whi=e House Counsel To Represent Employee Arrested in Inauguration Day Riot, Ra=sing Questions > > I'm dying to hear a=out your weekend. I can't take credit, but I heard someone sa= that you handling this was like asking your buddies if they had anyone who=could fill in for a pick-up game, and somebody sends over LeBron. From: Ruemmler, Kathy (DC) Sent: Tue=day, January 24, 2017 10:24 AM To: Glick, Jamie (DC); Kurla=der, Stuart (DC) Cc: Zuieback, Jamie (DC); Alexander, Kimbe=ly (DC) Subject: RE: Press: Heatstreat- 'Shady0=99 Israeli Mogul Hires Ex-White House Counsel To Represent Employee Arreste= in Inauguration Day Riot, Raising Questions Gotta love the conspiracy theorists EFTA_R1_01346827 EFTA02358899 From: Glick, Jamie DC <mailto <mailt » Date: Tuesday,=Jan 24, 2017, 10:04 AM To: Ruemmler, Kathy (DC) < »,=Kurlander, Stuart (DC) <mailto:= Cc: Zuieback, Jamie (DC)= «= href="mailt =gt, Alexander, Kimberly (DC) <mailto <mailto Subject: P=ess: Heatstreat- 'Shady' Israeli Mogul Hires Ex-White House=Counsel To Represent Employee Arrested in Inauguration Day Riot, Raising Qu=stions Hi Kathy and Stuart, You may have already seen this article, but sharing it ju=t in case you haven't. Please let us know if we can be of any help c=ordinating with the client's PR firm, which Stuart mentioned that y=u were doing yesterday. According to Wikip=dia, "Heat Street is a libertarian conservative news, opinion and c=mmentary website. Launched in February 2016, the website is headed by U.S. b=sed British writer and former politician Louise Mensch. It is owned by News=Corp under Dow Jones & Company." Thanks,=br>Jamie 'Shady' Israeli Mogul Hires E=-White House Counsel To Represent Employee Arrested in Inauguration Day Rio=, Raising Questionschttp://heatst.com/politics/shady-israeli-=ogul- hires-ex-white-house-counsel-to-represent-employee- arrested - in-i naugur=tion-day-riot-rai si ng-questionsk By Heat Street Sta=f I 6:36 pm, January 23, 2017 The mystery s=rrounding a would-be media magnate — who owns surveillance and secu=ity firms working for repressive regimes — is growing. The questions about Matania (Mati) Kochavi were sparked=again this weekend when Kathryn Ruemmler, who until recently was President O=ama's White House Counsel, showed up on Saturday morning in local W=shington DC court to represent one of the 217 people arrested for rioting o= Inauguration Day. (http://heatst.com/wp-co=tent/uploads/2017/01/ruemmler-obama.jpg?w=300JKathryn chttp://heatst.com/wp- content=uploads/2017/01/ruemmler-obama.jpg?w=300)Kathryn> Ruemmler and cl=ent. Ms. Ruemmler said she was there to re=resent a journalist, on assignment for the media company Vocativ<http://www.vocativ.comk, who'd g=tten swept up with the protesters in the arrests. Vocativ is owned by Kochavi. Reporters at the courthouse asked why a=big gun like Ruemmler, who has long been a specialist in corporate crime, w=uld show up for what would seem to be a misunderstanding involving a journa=ist doing his job. Ms. Ruemmler told Buzzf=ed that Vocativ is a client of her firm,<https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/prose=utors-pursue-rioting-charges-over-inauguration-day- pro?utm_term..gtPej4zo=#.cgyzaBvG2 <https://www.buzzfeed=com/zoetillman/prosecutors-pursue-rioting-charges- over-inauguration-day-pro=utm_term=.gtPej4zon#.cgyzaBvG2» Latham & Watkins. The firm is one of the most prest=gious law shops in New York and Washington with partners such as Ruemmler&I=;https://www.lw.com/p=ople/kathrynruemmler <https://www.lw.com/people/kathrynruemmler» charging thousands of dollars an hour.<=r> She did look somewhat out of place among the lawye=s there to defend anarchists and other alleged troublemakers who are charge= with rioting, burning a limo and smashing up stores on the streets of the c=pital. "The individuals charged were generally brought in front of t=e judge in groups of 10 and were represented by a cadre of 2 EFTA_R1_01346828 EFTA02358900 public defenders=and other court-appointed lawyers," according to Buzzfeed. That was=not the case when it came to Vocativ. Base= in New York and Tel Aviv, Vocativ publishes mostly reprints of health stud=es, aggregated videos for Facebook, and female focused feature pieces. The c=mpany which employs a large team of US journalists and ex-Israeli intellige=ce operatives, claims to use technology from the intelligence world to sour=e its stories. Indeed its founder, Kochavi, has a background in Israeli int=lligence, having made his fortune providing security and military grade pub=ic safety solutions to the superrich Emirate of Abu Dhabi through an entity=called AGT. (http://heatst.com/wp-content/upl=ads/2017/01/abu-dhabi-mosque.jpg?w=300)The <http://heatst.com/wp- content/upload=/2017/01/abu-dhabi-mosque.jpg?w=3001The> Grand Mosque of Abu Dhabi<=span> AGT was responsible for installing a 40=9Cunique civil surveillance network in Abu Dhabi that means 'every p=rson is monitored from the moment they leave their doorstep to the moment trey return to it,— according to the noted security publicat=on MiddleEastEye.<http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-israel-surv=illance-2104952769 <http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-israe=-surveillance-2104952769» The invasive system is dubbed "Falcon Ey=". Kochavi also owns Israeli secur=ty and private intelligence firms 3iMind and Logic Industries. Like Vocativ= 3iMind claims to use "the deep web" to mine information, t=ough in 3i Mind's case it provides spy services, not journalistic on=s. 3i Mind even advertises online that it will spy on "the planning a=d execution of violent civil unrest" for clients.<https://www.3i-mind=com/use_cases/political-social-unrest/> <=pan>The website for Kochavi's mother companychttps://www.agtinternational.com/about/ <https://=ww.agtinternational.com/about/> =gt;, AGT, claims its current business is using "Internet of Things*=804, technology for entertainment and "fashion" applicatio=s in partnership with the giant talent agency WME-IMG ... though it40.804>s unclear what any of these applications really are<http://www.euroleague.net/final-four/=erlin- 2016/news/i/6vokoibj5fsgqg4q/heed-the-event-platform-based-joint-vent=re-between-wme-img-and-agt-international- makes-first-official-foray-into-sp=rts>, and certainly what value they provide for entertainment. Secur=ty experts say Internet of Things type sensors could be tied together to mo=itor crowds for security purposes. Accordi=g to Israeli and U.S. Jewish publications, the lines within Kochavi'= companies can blur, with Vocativ employees doing work for 3iMind and Logic= and vice versa. So who was this "journalist" arrested amid=the unrest on Inauguration Day? Was he actually doing journalism? Or, as so=e journalists around town have been asking, could he also have been doing s=rveillance of anti-Trump demonstrators on behalf of an Arab or Israeli clie=t, possibly a foreign government? [http://heatst.com/wp- content=uploads/2017/01/aaeaaqaaaaaaaaqSaaaajdq3mjuxmgu2Itg5njmtndilmclhzmrhltIlyjk=nzeSzjIjmg.jpg?w=3001K ochavi <http://heatst=com/wp- content/uploads/2017/01/aaeaaqaaaaaaaaqSaaaajdq3mjuxmgu2Itg5njmtndil=c1hzmrhltIlyjkynzeSzjIjmg.jpg?w=300)Ko chavi> employee Evan Engel (Linkedln) A call to Ruemmler was returned by someone identifyi=g himself as a Vocativ spokesperson. He told Heat Street that the arrested e=ployee, Evan Engel, was doing purely journalistic work at the time he was d=tained. "The arrest, detainment an= rioting charge against journalist Evan Engel who was covering the protests=for Vocativ are an affront to the First Amendment and journalistic freedom,=E24* the spokesperson said. "Vocativ will vigorously cont=st this unfounded and outrageous charge." Kochavi has taken pains to put a different face, unrelated to spying=and surveillance, on his American activities. Vocativ acts like a news orga=ization, though it's made little splash (and gets remarkably little=web traffic<http:/=www.alexa.com/siteinfo/vocativ.com <http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/vocativ.com») for an operation so large and e=pensive. 3 EFTA_R1_01 346829 EFTA02358901 Kochavi has also shown little hes=tation to pay top dollar for access to the most powerful figures in America=to provide legitimacy for his American activities. Last fall's Wiki=edia data dump revealed that he and his longtime business partner, New York=rainmaking lawyer Mary Edelman, offered Bill Clinton millions of dollars to=serve as honorary chairman of the company that would become Vocativ. <http://heatst.com/biz/wikilea=s-bill-clinton-turned-down-8- million-to-be-honorary-chairman-of-news-site-v=cativ/ <http://heatst.com/biz/wikileaks-bill-clinton-turned-down-8- million-=o-be-honorary-chairman-of-news-site-vocativ/» Clinton turned them down, perhaps nervous about Kochavi who4o=80,s been described as "a mysterious even somewhat shady characte=" and the Israeli "version of the old- fashioned arms dealer=with a suit and an MBA" by the progressive Jewish blog Tikkun Olam.=Ithttps://ww..richardsilverstein.com/2014/12/04/israeli-cyber-security-merchant-peddles-=ares-secretly-in- united-arab-emirates/ <https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2014/12/04/israeli-cyber-s=curity-merchant-peddles- wares-secretly-in-united-arab-emirates/» (http://heatst.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/akochavivivian.jpg?w=260=Matania Kochavi (C) shown with Vivian Schiller (L) chair of VocativQ=99s executive committee and Danna Rabin (R) AGT's chief operations o=ficer. And now Kochavi has purchased the s=rvices of President Obama's former White House counsel, Ruemmler, w=ose name was once on the shortlist<http://www.la=imes.com/nation/la-na-ruemmler-attorney-general-nixed- 20141024-story.html</=» for US attorney general. It's a fair question to ask: why was= Ruemmler really down in local DC court on a Saturday morning? Why was=getting this Vocativ employee off the hook such a high priority? And what, i= any, other services has Ruemmler, the corporate crime expert, been providi=g to Kochavi and his various intelligence operations around the world? Ruemmler herself has not returned requests for c=mment. From: Glick, Jamie=(DC) Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 6:03 PM Subject: Press: Buzzfeed and NY Po=t- Prosecutors Charge Protesters With Rioting Over Inauguration Day Protest= Hi Kathy, In case you haven't seen, below are a couple of articles and tweet= which mention your representation of a journalist employed by Vocativ. Thanks, Jamie =/span> Jamie C. Glick Public Relations Specialist<=span> LATHAM & WATKINS LLP Email: <http://www.latimes.com/nat=on/la-na-ruemmler-attorne - eneral-nixed-20141024-story.html> <ma=lto: mailto:// > http://www.lw.com <http://www.lw.c=m> 4 EFTA_R1_01346830 EFTA02358902 Prosecutors Charg= Protesters With Rioting Over Inauguration Day Protests<https://www.buzzfeed.com=zoetillman/prosecutors-pursue-rioting-charges-over-inauguration-day- pro?utm=term=.mxL7rr5462#.ygykppRw0v> Mor= than 200 people are being charged with felony rioting — a charge t=at carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in jail — after they were=arrested during anti-Trump demonstrations on Inauguration Day in DC.=br>posted on Jan. 21, 2017, at 8:33 p.m. (Zoe Tillman=<https://w=w.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman?language=en <https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman?language=en» Zoe Tillman=lt;https://ww=.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman?language=en chttps://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman?language=en» BuzzFeed New= Reporter (https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/20=7-01/21/10/asset/buzzfeed-prod-web-09/sub-buzz-24787- 1485014343-1.jpg?resiz==990:806 <https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-sta=ic/static/2017-01/21/10/asset/buzzfeed- prod-web-09/sub-buzz-24787-148501434=-1.jpg?resize=990:806> ) A man arrested during prot=sts in DC on Jan. 20 waits to board a police van. Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed Ne=s WASHINGTON — As hundreds of thou=ands of demonstrators gathered<https://www.buzzfee=.com/buzzfeednews/womens-march?utm_term=.wra9MGEmBj#.gtOrQXPW34 <https://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzf=ednews/womens-march?utm_term=.wra9MGEmBj#.gtOrQXPW34» o= the National Mall to protest President Trump on Saturday, people arrested&=t;https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/rioters-a=d-police-are-clash-during-trumps-inauguration chttps://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/rioters-and-police-are-cla=h-during-trumps-inauguration» the day before during=anti-Trump protests in downtown Washington, DC, made their first appearance=in court. Prosecutors are pursuing charges=against all of the 230 people arrested on Friday for rioting, according to t=e US attorney's office in DC. Although anti-Trump demonstrations on=inauguration day were largely peaceful, some turned violent, with participa=ts breaking storefront windows, throwing bricks at police, and running thro=gh streets and parks downtown as they were chased by police. The arraignment hearing at DC Superior Court began on Sat=rday around 1 p.m. and was still going six hours later. As of 7 p.m., 80 pe=ple arrested and charged with felony rioting had come before a judge. The c=urt was expected to continue the hearing through the night until everyone a=rested on Friday came through. The defenda=ts processed so far were released until their next court dates, with the co=dition that they not be arrested again in DC in the meantime. Felony rioting is a crime under DC law that carries a ma=imum penalty of 10 years in jail and a fine of up to $25,000. According to p=lice, six officers were injured in confrontations with demonstrators on Jan= 20, and three of those officers sustained minor head injuries after object= were thrown at them. The DC law defines felony rioting as a group of at le=st five people who, "by tumultuous and violent conduct and the thre=t thereof," cause "serious bodily harm" or property=damage valued at more than $5,000. A 21-ye=r-old Texas man was also charged with pointing a laser at at US Park Police=helicopter during the protests on Friday. He was arraigned in Superior Cour= but the case is being moved to federal court. <=pan>The individuals charged with rioting were generally brought in front of=the judge in groups of 10 and were represented by a cadre of public defende=s and other court-appointed lawyers. One exception came early in the hearin=, when former White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler entered an appearance fo= one of the defendants. Ruemmler said her client was a journalist on assign=ent filming the demonstrations who was swept up in the arrests. <=pan> 5 EFTA_R1_01346831 EFTA02358903 Ruemmler served as P=esident Obama's White House counsel for three years before going to=the law firm Latham & Watkins. Ruemmler told reporters outside of the c=urtroom that her firm represents Vocativ, the media company that employed h=r client, which is how she got involved. <=span> Dozens of people came to the courthouse on S=turday to support the arrestees. They cheered as defendants left the courtr=om; some of the defendants were walking slowly to keep their shoes on becau=e they had to remove their shoelaces after being arrested. The defendants w=re held by police overnight. [https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfee=-static/static/2017-01/21/20/asset/buzzfeed-prod-web-15/sub-buzz-1449- 14850=7203.1.jpg?resize=990:743 <https://img.buzzfe=d.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-01/21/20/asset/buzzfeed- prod-web-15/sub-b=zz-1449-1485047203-1.jpg?resize=990:743> ] Zoe Tillm=n / BuzzFeed News By Saturday night, a cro=d had gathered outside the courthouse to greet the arrestees, cheering and a=plauding as they came out. A line of police formed in between the group and=the courthouse entrance, and police were screening people trying to go insi=e. Several lawyers offered a preview of th=ir defense strategy during the hearing, arguing that the rioting charge sho=ld be dismissed because prosecutors hadn't shown that each defendan= was specifically involved in the rioting described in charging documents. A=though the defendants were brought out in groups before the judge, they...99re individually charged. One lawyer argu=d that the US attorney's office should recuse from prosecuting the c=ses because the defendants were charged with participating in anti-Trump ri=ts and Trump was now in charge of the US Department of Justice. <=pan> "I appreciate all the creative arguments,•=9D Magistrate Judge Rainey Brandt said in response, but she said that at th=s early stage of the case she only had to find that the government had show= probable cause to move the cases forward. 1. &nb=p; ihttps://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/184916354=/Zoe_Tillman_photol_bigger.jpg <https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1849163545/Z=e_Tillman_photol_bigger.jpg> I Zoe Tillman @ZoeTillman <https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman&=t; Jan 21<https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/822908408475095049 <https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/8229084084750=5049» Ruem=ler told reporters that her law firm Latham & Watkins has done work for=the news outlet, Vocativ, which is how she got involved 1 reply 5 retweets 3=likes 2. 3. &=bspattps://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1849163545/Zoe_Till=an_photol_bigger.jpg <https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1849163545/Zoe_Tillman=photo1_bigger.jpg> ] Zoe Tillman @ZoeTillman <https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman> Jan 21=lt;htt=s://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/822908213557415938 <https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/822908213557415938» One journalist=arraigned, lawyer says he was arrested while filming. He's represented by f=rmer White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler 0 replies 19 retweets 36 likes 6 EFTA_R1_01346832 EFTA02358904 Inauguration Day protesters m=y face felony rioting charges<http://nypost.co=/2017/01/22/inauguration-day- protesters-may-face-felony-rioting-charges/ <http://nypost.com/2017/01/22/in=uguration-day-protesters-may-face- felony-rioting-charges/> By Sophia Rosenbaum<http://nypost.com/author/sophia-ros=nbaum/> New York Post January 22, 2017 I 12:55pm Officials in the nation's capital are throwing the book at anti-=rump protesters —threatening the people who were arrested <http://nypost.com/2017/01/20/dozens-arrested-as-anti-tru=p-protesters-clash-with-police/> with massive fines and up to 10 yea=s in jail. The U.S. attorney's off=ce will seek to charge all 230 of the protesters who took to the streets on=lnauguration Day — some damaging storefronts and clashing with poli=e — with felony rioting. As of Sat=rday evening, 80 people had already been slapped with the heavy charges, wh=ch include fines of up to $25,000 and up to 10 years in jail, according to B=zzfeed.<=ttps://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/prosecutors- pursue-rioting-charges-over-=nauguration-day-pro?utm_term=.dw6wmWlb#.ahOrz1yD <https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/prosecutors-pursu=-rioting-charges-over-inauguration-day- pro?utm_term=.dw6wmWIbLahOrz1yD» =/span> Felony rioting is defined in D.C. law by at least five peop=e who use "tumultuous and violent conduct of the threat thereofQ=9D to cause "serious bodily harm" and instigate more than $=,000 in property damage. Six local officer= were injured by protesters during Trump's big day. The glass windo=s of several businesses were shattered in downtown D.C. including Bank of A=erica, McDonald's and Starbucks. A=I of the people who have already been charged were released on their own re=ognizance and given their next court appearance dates. At least one of those arrested was a Vocativ journalist coverin= the protests, and he was defended by heavy- hitter and former White House a=torney Kathryn Ruemmler, Buzzfeed reported. This email may contain material that is confidential, p=ivileged and/or attorney work product for the sole use of the intended reci=ient. Any review, reliance or distribution by others or forwarding wi=hout express permission is strictly prohibited. If you are not the in=ended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. Latham & Watkins LLP 7 EFTA_R1_01346833 EFTA02358905