Sep 21, 2026 · 8 min · 5 segments
In this week's Monday mini-episode, Miranda looks at how Democrats are resurrecting Russiagate to haunt the midterms like a vampire that just won't die. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
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 U.S. Attorney's Office and now in private practice in Washington, D.C., 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 September 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 and Lardner LLP, is acting for Gilbert Hyatt, an 88-year-old inventor who paid Caputo's PR firm $100,000 to lobby the second Trump White House to establish a, quote, pioneering AI foundation along the lines of the Smithsonian.
Caputo denies the allegations and accuses Korba of being, quote, obsessed with him, likening the lawyer to Captain Ahab from Moby Dick, forever hunting his white whale.
My wife and daughters won't stop crying." On Friday, Caputo lodged an ethics complaint against Korba with the D.C.
Office of Disciplinary Counsel, alleging that the lawyer has a conflict of interest from his time in the DOJ and that he used material he could only have gleaned from the five-year Caputo probe.
Caputo also suggests in his complaint that the elderly Hyatt's, quote, capacity to understand, evaluate and direct this lawsuit is increasingly impaired, end quote.
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 U.S. Attorney's Office and now in private practice in Washington, D.C., 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 September 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 and Lardner LLP, is acting for Gilbert Hyatt, an 88-year-old inventor who paid Caputo's PR firm $100,000 to lobby the second Trump White House to establish a, quote, pioneering AI foundation along the lines of the Smithsonian.
Caputo denies the allegations and accuses Korba of being, quote, obsessed with him, likening the lawyer to Captain Ahab from Moby Dick, forever hunting his white whale.
My wife and daughters won't stop crying." On Friday, Caputo lodged an ethics complaint against Korba with the D.C.
Office of Disciplinary Counsel, alleging that the lawyer has a conflict of interest from his time in the DOJ and that he used material he could only have gleaned from the five-year Caputo probe.
Caputo also suggests in his complaint that the elderly Hyatt's, quote, capacity to understand, evaluate and direct this lawsuit is increasingly impaired, end quote.
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