Mueller To FBI: Women Were Offered Money To Make False Claims About Me

A bizarre and convoluted story involving Robert Mueller, two right-wing personalities, and a woman who “doesn’t exist,” has resulted in the special counsel asking the FBI to look into allegations that “women were offered money to make false claims” about him, and “right-wing Twitter troll” Jacob Wohl accusing the media of conducting a “coordinated smear campaign” against Mueller.

In an email to The Atlantic Tuesday, Mueller’s spokesman Peter Carr said the special counsel has referred an apparent smear campaign against him to the FBI. “When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the Special Counsel, we immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” said Carr.

The whole absurd mess began with Wohl claiming on Twitter Monday that “several media sources” had told him that “a scandalous story about Mueller is breaking tomorrow.” He followed that up on Tuesday by retweeting a story by the Gateway Pundit headlined: “BREAKING REPORT — EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS: Special Counsel and Former FBI Director Robert Mueller Accused of Rape By ‘Very Credible Witness.'” That story has since been replaced by the following statement (formatting adjusted):

We took the documents down and we are currently investigating these accusations. There are also very serious allegations against Jacob Wohl. We are also looking into this. There is still a press conference scheduled for Thursday at noon in Washington DC.

That tweet was followed by a retweet of a post by radio host and conspiracy theorist Jack Burkman announcing, “Some sad news. On Thursday, November 1, at the Rosslyn Holiday Inn at noon, we will reveal the first of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s sex assault victims. I applaud the courage and dignity and grace and strength of my client.”

The scandalous and thus-far evidence-less accusations were followed Tuesday by a report by The Atlantic’s Natasha Bertrand citing a mysterious woman going by the name of “Lorraine Parsons” who contacted multiple reporters in an email claiming that a firm called Surefire Intelligence, which she said had been hired by Burkman, had offered to pay her about $20,000 “to make accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment against Robert Mueller.” But Bertrand noted some suspicious aspects of Parsons’ story:

Parsons wrote in her letter that she had worked for Mueller as a paralegal at the Pillsbury, Madison, and Sutro law firm in 1974, but that she “didn’t see” him much. “When I did see him, he was always very polite to me, and was never inappropriate,” she said. The law firm told me late on Tuesday afternoon, however, that it has “no record of this individual working for our firm.”

As for Surefire Intelligence, it also appeared to be highly dubious. And, as both NBC and The Daily Beast quickly figured out, tied to Wohl:

Surefire Intelligence was incorporated in Delaware less than three weeks ago, according to online records, and describes itself as “a private intel agency that designs and executes bespoke solutions for businesses and individuals who face complex business and litigation challenges.” Surefire’s domain records list an email for another pro-Trump conspiracy theorist, Jacob Wohl, who began hyping a “scandalous” Mueller story on Tuesday morning. Wohl told The Daily Beast that Burkman had hired Surefire to assist with his investigation into Mueller’s past, but denied knowing anything about the firm’s involvement in an alleged plot to fabricate allegations against Mueller when asked why his email address appeared in the domain records. He did not respond when asked by NBC why a telephone number listed on Surefire’s website referred callers to another number that’s listed in public records as belonging to Wohl’s mother.

Here’s more on the fake company’s obviously fake profile:

Odd. Jacob Wohl says he doesn't know nuttin' about Surefire Intelligence, the firm tied to the bizarre Mueller allegations. Take a look at the photos below of Mathhew Cohen, head of 'Surefire,' and of Jacob Wohl. pic.twitter.com/Q1rAW4wkPO

— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) October 30, 2018

Surefire Intelligence's "Financial Investigator" in Zurich is Christoph Waltz. What a great hire! pic.twitter.com/Leu1KLe0XC

— Aric Toler (@AricToler) October 30, 2018

Investigative journalist Scott Stedman, who has been covering the story extensively, suggests that the fake Parsons emails were a ploy to cover up attempts to pay real women real money to smear Mueller:​

This is PRECISELY why journalists did a great job today by not jumping. Parsons – the woman who sent the original email – doesn't exist. It was an effort to discredit the reporting on the other woman/women that DO exist that WERE offered money. https://t.co/8rsycXReEU

— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) October 31, 2018

Wohl is portraying the whole thing as the media “scrambling” to discredit “very credible allegations” against Mueller by “accusing me of offering to pay accusers with ZERO PROOF and ZERO EVIDENCE.” Parsons, he said in one tweet, “doesn’t even exist.” “IT’S A FAKE NEWS CON JOB!” he declared. Meanwhile, as The Atlantic reported, the FBI has now been alerted to the matter.

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