<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>Kathy Ruemmler</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Tuesday, January 24, 2017 4:22 PM</td></tr><tr><td>To:</td><td>jeffrey E.</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Fwd: Press: Heatstreat- 'Shady' Israeli Mogul Hires Ex-White House Counsel To
Represent Employee Arrested in Inauguration Day Riot, Raising Questions</td></tr></table>

Look at this craziness.
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*   **From:** Zu=eback, Jamie (DC)
*   **To:** Ruemmler, Kathy (DC)
*   **Date:** Tuesday, Jan 24, 2017, 10:37 AM
*   **Subject:** RE: Press: Heatstreat- 'Shady' Israeli Mogul Hires Ex-White 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

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| From | Glick, Jamie (DC) <[redacted]> |
| Date | Tuesday, Jan 24, 2017, 10:04 AM |
| To | Ruemmler, Kathy (DC) <[redacted]>; Kurlander, Stuart (DC) <[redacted]> |
| Cc | Zuieback, Jamie (DC) <[redacted]>; Alexander, Kimberly (DC) <[redacted]>; additional recipients redacted |
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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 Ex-White House Counsel To Represent Employee Arrested in Inauguration Day Riot, Raising Questions<http://heatst.com/politics/shady-israeli-mogul-hires-ex-white-house-counsel-to-represent-employee-arrested-in-inauguration-day-riot-raising-questions/>

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-content/uploads/2017/01/ruemmler-obama.jpg?w=300]Kathryn <http://heatst.com/wp-content=uploads/2017/01/ruemmler-obama.jpg?w=300]Kathryn> Ruemmler and client.

Ms. Ruemmler said she was there to re=resent a journalist, on assignment for the media company Vocativ<http://www.vocativ.com/>, who'd g=ttten 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 Buzzfeed 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=#.cgvzaBvG2 <https://www.buzzfeed=com/zoetillman/prosecutors-pursue-rioting-charges-over-inauguration-day-pro=utm_term=.gtPej4zon#.cgvzaBvG2>> Latham & Watkins. The firm is one of the most prest=giou law shops in New York and Washington with partners such as Ruemmler&l=;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

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=ligence, 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=300]The> Grand Mosque of Abu Dhabi<==span>

AGT was responsible for installing a 9Cunique civil surveillance network in Abu Dhabi that means 'every p= rson is monitored from the moment they leave their doorstep to the moment t=ey 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 3iMind'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 <=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 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/aaeaaqaaaaaaaaaq5aaaajdq3mjuxmgu2ltg5njmtndi1mc1hzmrhltllyjk=nze5zjlimg.jpg?w=300]Kochavi <http://heatst=com/wp-

content/uploads/2017/01/aaeaaqaaaaaaaaaq5aaaajdq3mjuxmgu2ltg5njmtndi1=c1hzmrltIlyjkynze5zjljmg.jpg?w=300]Ko chavi> employee Evan Engel (LinkedIn)

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.

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- 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 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/» million-=o-be-honorary-chairman-of-news-site-vocativ/» Clinton turned them down, perhaps nervous about Kochavi old-fashioned who4o=80,s arms been dealer=with described a as suit "a and mysterious an MBA" even by the somewhat progressive shady Jewish characte=" blog Tikkun and the Israeli "version of the

(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. with

what, local 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, any, other services has Ruemmler, the corporate crime expert, been providi=g to Kochavi and his various intelligence operations around the world? i=

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
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Jamie C. Glick
Public Relations Specialist<=span>

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Prosecutors Charge Protesters With Rioting Over Inauguration Day
Protests<https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/prosecutors-pursue-rioting-charges-over-inauguration-day-pro?utm=term=.mxL7rr54B2#.ygykppRw0v>

More than 200 people are being charged with felony rioting — a charge that carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in jail — after they were arrested during anti-Trump demonstrations on Inauguration Day in DC. posted on Jan. 21, 2017, at 8:33 p.m.

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BuzzFeed New= Reporter

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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 thousands 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 <https://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>

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.

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Dozens of people came to the courthouse on S=aturday 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=ere held by police overnight.

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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.

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"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.

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3. &nbsp;[https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1849163545/Zoe_Till=an_photo1_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

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=rdy 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.<=https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/prosecutors-pursue-rioting-charges-over-inauguration-day-pro?utm_term=.dw6wmWlb#.ahOrz1yD <https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/prosecutors-pursu=-rioting-charges-over-inauguration-day-pro?utm_term=.dw6wmWlb#.ahOrz1yD>>

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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.

heavy-hitter and At former least one White of those House arrested a=torney was Kathryn a Vocativ Ruemmler, journalist Buzzfeed coverin= reported. the protests, and he was defended by

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