Special counsel asks FBI to investigate conspiracy against Mueller

The unnamed woman in a recent email to multiple journalists wrote that GOP activist named Jack Burkman asked her “to make accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment against Robert Mueller" in exchange for the money.

Burkman in a tweet Tuesday said he would be holding an event on Thursday in a Virginia suburb with the first woman to make an allegation against Mueller.

"I applaud the courage and dignity and grace and strength of my client," wrote Burkman, who hosts a conservative radio and TV talk show on Newsmax.

Some sad news. On Thursday, November 1, at the Rosslyn
Holiday Inn at noon, we will reveal the first of Special Counsel Robert
Mueller's sex assault victims. I applaud the courage and dignity and
grace and strength of my client. pic.twitter.com/wZVQeHD45r
— Jack Burkman (@Jack_Burkman) October 30, 2018

The D.C. lobbyist had previously gained attention for his work on a conspiracy theory involving Seth Rich, a young staffer for the Democratic National Committee who was killed in what D.C. police concluded was a robbery in 2016. Burkman theorized that Rich had been killed by a Russian hit squad.

Rich's parent distanced themselves from Burkman and said that people conducting their own investigations into the unsolved crime are not helping anyone.

In her email, the woman alleges that Burkman offered to pay her $20,000.

"[Burkman] offered to pay off all of my credit card debt, plus bring me a check for $20,000 if I would do one thing,” the woman wrote in an email obtained by The Atlantic. “In more of an effort to get him to go away than anything else, I asked him what in the hell he wanted me to do."

"He said that we could not talk about it on the phone, and he asked me to download an app on my phone called Signal, which he said was more secure," she continued. "Reluctantly, I downloaded the app and he called me on that app a few minutes later. He said (and I will never forget exactly what it was), ‘I want you to make accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment against Robert Mueller, and I want you to sign a sworn affidavit to that effect.’”

Journalist Yashar Ali posted a screenshot of the email, which he said he received 13 days ago, on Twitter.

13 days ago I received this tip alleging an attempt to pay off women to make up accusations of sexual misconduct against Special Counsel Bob Mueller. Other reporters received the same email. Now the Special Counsel's office is telling us they've referred the matter to the FBI pic.twitter.com/z9RBrlU02M
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) October 30, 2018