Shoes are not dropping, they're raining down

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is digging deeper into Trump ally and Blackwater founder Erik Prince, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter.

Prince, America’s most famous private military contractor, acknowledged last week that he “cooperated” with Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election after falling under scrutiny amid questions about an alleged effort to establish a backchannel between the Trump administration and the Kremlin, something Prince has vehemently denied.

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"Cooperated." Read into it what you will.

ABC News has since learned that Mueller is also reviewing Prince’s communications, a sign that Mueller could try to squeeze Prince, as he has others, probing potential inconsistencies in his sworn testimony in an attempt to pressure him to turn into a witness against other targets of the investigation.

I can imagine that for Michael Cohen, an eventual flip on Trump will be a difficult choice, but for Erik Prince? He doesn't even possess the minimal ethics of loyalty.

“As Mr. Prince told the Daily Beast he has spoken voluntarily with Congress and also cooperated completely with the Special Counsel’s investigation, including by providing them total access to his phones and computer,” the spokesperson said. “Mr. Prince has a lot of opinions about the various investigations, but there is no question that they are important and serious, and so Mr. Prince will keep his opinions to himself for now and to let the investigators do their work."

Good choice. He can spout all he wants behind bars or from an undisclosed location after he's turned state's witness. Prince lied to Congress. And even though that, in itself, is a federal crime, he probably felt comfortable that the Republicans wouldn't pursue the matter.  He may have thought better of it when facing the Special Prosecutor's team.

Two of Prince’s former business associates, both of whom asked to remain anonymous, told ABC News they have been contacted by investigators probing a pair of proposed business deals between the Hong Kong-based security firm Frontier Services Group, of which Prince is the founder and chairman, and Russian nationals.

One former business associate, who has worked with Prince since the 1990s, recounted a recent conversation with FBI agents from Mueller's office.

"Are you aware of any falsehoods in the testimony that Erik Prince gave to the House Intelligence Committee?" the associate said agents asked him.

The associate said he told the agents about Prince's previously undisclosed [in an effort to secure a possibly illegal private security contract with Azerbaijan].

Having images of orange in his future.

The internal investigation, first reported by The Intercept earlier this year, was turned over to U.S. Department of Justice prosecutors at the end of President Barack Obama’s second term, multiple sources said. The findings prompted two senior company officials to resign in protest over Prince’s activities, the sources said.

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Having images of orange in their futures.

“Frontier Services Group was trying to build a relationship with [state-owned Russian energy firm] Rostec to be the logistics guys,” the associate said, “and Rostec met with Erik.”

Work began, the associate said, but the deal fell through when the United States imposed sanctions on the Kremlin-run firm in 2014 because of Russian military operations in Ukraine, and the firm was never paid by the Russians.

In response to questions from ABC News, a spokesperson for Prince said that neither deal came to fruition.

"Any discussions between FSG and those individuals predated the existence of the Trump campaign, and never resulted in any business being done,” the spokesperson said.

Which is why they needed to get Trump elected president.

Prince was reported to be talking privately with Trump and Oliver North about creating a private intelligence service for Trump to circumvent US intel agencies. From the report, it appears the genesis of this plan was formed at least as early as spring of 2016. Eric Prince seems to be standing right in the heart of the Russian conspiracy/collusion scandal. Perhaps how he got his sister Betsy DeVos her job.

Closing in, Yer Lardship.

Special Prosecutor Mueller smells feces.