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Miranda Devine: Dems bring Russiagate back from the dead to haunt the midterms and former Trump staffer Michael Caputo

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Former Trump staffer Michael Caputo endured a decade of lawfare that he says forced him out of his home and gave him cancer from all the stress.

But just when he thought the Russiagate nightmare was over, he was slapped in the face this month with a lawsuit cooked up by a former DOJ lawyer from the “national security” unit that hounded him and other Trump associates over alleged foreign agent violations without laying a single charge.

It’s a simple $100,000 contract dispute case, but Jack Korba, formerly a prosecutor in the small national security section of the District of Columbia US Attorney’s Office and now in private practice in Washington, DC, has filed a complaint packed with gratuitous smears of Caputo that rehash elements of the DOJ’s failed Russiagate probe.

The florid 85-page complaint, filed on Sept. 8, compares Caputo to traitor Benedict Arnold, accuses him of sabotage, quotes Vladimir Putin and alleges shadowy links to “Russian intelligence.”

Korba, who left the DOJ last summer to work for Foley & Lardner LLP, is acting for Gilbert Hyatt, an 88-year-old inventor who paid Caputo’s p.r. firm $100,000 to lobby the second Trump White House to establish a “Pioneering AI Foundation” along the lines of the Smithsonian.

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