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RALEIGH
A wealthy man in Raleigh accused of money laundering and plotting a murder-for-hire has ties to a Russian oligarch who has been indicted on charges of interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to Russian news sources.
Novaya Gazeta, a Moscow-based news organization known for its critical coverage of Russian politics, has reported a business connection between Leonid Teyf of Raleigh and Yevgeny Prigozhin, one of 13 Russians indicted last February as part of special counsel Robert Muellers investigation.
Mueller, in a 37-page indictment, accused Prigozhin and companies he controlled, including the Internet Research Agency, of funding and orchestrating a campaign to influence the presidential election through social media and other tactics.
[link:https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article223371200.html|
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,406 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)the traitortrump messes.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,406 posts)with the Trump (mis-)Administration and seem to be living in the Mad Hatter's hat.
markophillips
(5 posts)Very helpful thread
Sanity Claws
(21,846 posts)and whether he was involved in other plots to murder.
Edited to add: The article said the plot was to murder his ex-wife's lover.
blondebanshee
(353 posts)former housekeeper, court documents show.
Leonid and Tatyana Teyf have also been charged along with Timofeevs wife, Olesya Yuryneva Timofeeva, 41, with conspiring, and aiding and abetting one another to encourage people to enter the United State illegally, according to a news release.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article223023270.html
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)they are importing as many Russians as possible. How do they get their visas?? I know rich Russian wives go to Florida to have their babies, so they have dual citizenship. It is a cottage industry. Asian wives go to California for the same reason.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)lock them up
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)seems to point to Repubs in bed with Russians. In Ms Buttina's case, perhaps literally.
Yeah, it matters where the money comes from.
calimary
(81,220 posts)PatSeg
(47,399 posts)I feel like I'm living inside the head of a really, really bad writer of political thrillers, a Tom Clancy wannabe. If it was a book, I'd have toss it aside after the first couple chapters because it is too far-fetched to be taken seriously.
dlk
(11,552 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)yardwork
(61,588 posts)Response to blondebanshee (Original post)
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tikka
(762 posts)I couldn't find any confirmation that he's dead.