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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConfirmed: Russian freelance-lawyer at Trump Tower meeting actually works for russian government.
In other news, she once tried to turn a swiss prosecutor into a double-agent for Russia. Just google "Veselnitskaya swiss".
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/natalia-veselnitskaya-russians_us_5b5a43b0e4b0b15aba96ed88
The data was obtained through Russian opposition figure Mikhail Khodorkovskys London-based investigative unit, the Dossier Center, that is compiling profiles of Russians it accuses of benefiting from corruption. The data was later shared with journalists at the AP, the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger, Greek news website Inside Story and others.
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But recent reporting has cast doubt on her story. In an April interview with NBC News, Veselnitskaya acknowledged acting as an informant for the Russian government after being confronted with an earlier batch of emails obtained through the Dossier Center.
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Veselnitskaya told Congress last year that her interest in Browder was all part of my job defending a specific person her client Denis Katsyv, who Browder accuses of laundering money through the company Prevezon.
But the documents obtained through the Dossier Center show she both received Russian government support and provided assistance to high-level authorities in Moscow.
When Swiss officials investigating Prevezon arrived in Moscow on September 2015 to interrogate Katsyv, for example, they were met not just by Veselnitskaya but by Lt. Col. A. V. Ranchenkov, a senior Interior Ministry official previously known for his role investigating the Russian punk band Pussy Riot.
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An Oct. 31, 2017, email shows Veselnitskayas office preparing a draft version of Russian Deputy General Prosecutor Mikhail Alexandrovs affidavit to Cypriot authorities. This is needed by tomorrow, she wrote a subordinate.
Two weeks later, a finalized version of the same document was sent by a Russian diplomatic staffer to a Cypriot counterpart, the Dossier Centers files show.
Is this real? Well, Russia realy, really, really doesn't want to talk about it:
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The AP worked to authenticate the 200-odd documents, in some cases by verifying the digital signatures carried in email headers.
In three other cases, individuals named in various email chains confirmed that the messages were genuine. Other correspondence was partially verified by confirming the nonpublic phone numbers or email addresses they held, including some belonging to senior Russian officials and U.S. lobbyists.
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The Russian Interior Ministry did not return messages seeking comment.
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In a written statement, the Russian Embassy in Cyprus called the APs questions a provocation and that it had no idea who is Nataliya Veselnitskaya and what she sends or doesnt send to the Cypriot Officials.
Alexandrov, reached at the prosecutor-generals office, refused to speak to the AP.
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Akhmetshin, who would join Veselnitskaya at the Trump Tower meeting the next day, declined comment.
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Youre misinterpreting what occurred, he said in a telephone interview. When pressed for details, he asked for questions in writing. When these were provided, he did not respond. BakerHostetler also did not respond to written questions.
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Arakelian didnt return an email seeking comment.
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Cymrot refused to divulge whether he or others at BakerHostetler were paid for their work, calling that information privileged.
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Quinn Emanuel did not respond to a list of questions.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Without any paddles. Jr lied under oath to Congress , even if he wasn't under oath he committed a crime lying to them, and probably others lied about trump knowing also. trump knowingly lied after many instances of colluding, and was actively conspiring against our country, and he's in now way over his head, and is probably even more out of control now. Congress will be tuning on him and all this as its rolled out showing they committed treason, and are very corrupt criminals. It'll be overwhelming all the crimes committed from trump , his family ,and this administration , and members of Congress. Those that haven't talked to Mueller yet will be soon turning against them too trying to save themselves, except dummy Manifort. He'll be in prison forever from waiting to long to turn. Congress will soon take away more powers from him as he spirals out of control even more.
Scruffy1
(3,257 posts)Somehow it got stuck in the public mind that it was ok if you weren't under oath,
https://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2017/03/what-are-the-penalties-for-lying-to-congress.html
watoos
(7,142 posts)is that "dumb" and "dumber" are flying around the country on the taxpayer's dime to the tune of millions of dollars.
We are paying the expenses and giving Secret Service protection to 2 idiot traitors who kill endangered animals for a hobby.
kentuck
(111,111 posts)....now that we know Trump was groomed by the Russians.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Then he lied and lied and lied about it to the citizens of the United States. And the republicans supported his lies, and lapped them up as if for them the lies were mother's milk.
* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief