Intersection of Russia-Gate and Town & Gown
Not all books start and stop at the ends of their covers.
People who have read my book find it not only disturbing based on the damages cause to me and my family but also disturbing based on that is it both inexplicable and should be impossible in a modern democracy.
Given the numbers of different institutions and different people that were involved (across many states), a number of experts have told me the only plausible explanation is that this is politically motivated.
This dove-tails with the Russia-Gate story arguably the most politically contentious and charged story in recent times.
As documented in this blog, Paul Cronin told me, my wife Dr. Myria Petrou and Duaa Altaee in end of July-September 2016 of a Russian scheme to decide the 2016 U.S. President Election in Trump’s favor. In addition, Paul told us he was friends with then FBI Director James Comey and met with Comey. Paul’s statements to us were eerily prescient of the Steele Dossier (e.g. Paul told us Putin had Kopromat on Trump, sex tape, etc.).
The Crossfire Hurricane investigation started end of July 2016 coinciding with Paul’s disclosures to us.
Following, we wrote Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein about what Paul told us but never heard back. Mueller investigated other lesser issues/witnesses including a woman from Ohio because in 2016 she renamed her Twitter account @Guccifer2, after the character credited with hacking and leaking Democratic emails.
In early 2018, Myria and I reported what Cronin told us to the FBI regarding Russia and the presidential election. Per Cronin’s wife Aine Kelly, Cronin’s boss Dr. Ella Kazerooni escorted Cronin to be interviewed by the FBI in Chair Dr. Reed Dunnick’s office.
In September 2018 I sued Cronin in federal court (Case 2:18-cv-07672) for his Russia-Gate narrative as it made us targets. As part of the case, I executed an affidavit swearing to the above. Cronin never countered the affidavit. Cronin promised to come forward as a witness regarding his Russian statements and I dismissed the case. Cronin never followed through on his promise. Cronin did say the FBI inquired about the two alleged “counterfeit” orange cats when interviewed in Dr. Dunnick's conference room.
In November 2018, I informed the University of Michigan including Dean Carol Bradford and President Schlissel of what Cronin told me. The University of Michigan (including Bradford and Schlissel) doubled-down on their attempt to fire me including spending nearly $1M on outside attorneys to brand me as “non-credible” on the public record.
The Ann Arbor Observer also went to extreme lengths to publish four defamatory stories on us which are still online (despite the editor being unable to tell a federal judge how the articles serve the public interest) which among other things attacks us for writing Mueller and Rosenstein about Russia-Gate.
We contacted Special Counsel John Durham about the above but never heard back. Once again, Durham chased other lesser issues/witnesses.
In Fall of 2024, I wrote Christopher Steele and told him what Cronin had told me and asked him if he knew Cronin. No reply received.
In 2022 I filed a FOIA request for my own FBI file and was told by the FBI that were 500 pages in my file (?!) and with no release date offered. When I wrote President Biden, Biden said my file would be released in 2028! Senator Van Hollen has been unable to get my FBI file released. Given that Cronin’s narrative to me is the most “interesting” part of my life that could generate 500 pages for a suppressed federal investigation is my FBI file that I apparently cannot get until 2028 about Russia-Gate?
We have informed our various federal legislators about what Cronin told us without reply. The legislators include Congressman Adam Schiff, (then) Senator Kamala Harris, Representative Himes, Senator Blumenthal, Senator Gary Peters, Senator Charles Grassley, Representative Jamie Raskin, and Senator Chris Van Hollen. No one replied.
We had also informed various members of the executive branch including (then) AG Merritt Garland, Vice-President Harris, President Biden, Vice-President Vance and President Trump as well as Governor Whitmer and AG Nessel.
The only person who replied was President Trump who replied to Myria and said that we “are a powerful reminder of the strength, resilience and spirit of the American people and it is because of proud, hardworking citizens like us that he will never stop fighting to protect our values, defend our freedoms and put America first” and sends his best wishes to our family.
- Bradley Foerster, MD PhD
