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A week before Michael Flynn resigned as national security adviser, a sealed proposal was hand-delivered to his office, outlining a way for President Trump to lift sanctions against Russia. It came from Michael D. Cohen, Felix H. Sater, and Andrii V. Artemenko.
Who are these men, why do they have such direct access to Trump's White House, and why are they so interested in lifting Russian sanctions?
2. Sater is a Russian-American, and longtime business associate and senior advisor of Trumps with connections in Russia. He served as an executive at Bayrock Group, two floors below the Trump Organization in Trump Tower. He says he had been working on a plan for a Trump Tower in Moscow with a Russian real estate developer as recently as the fall of 2015. Decades ago he pleaded guilty to a role in a stock manipulation scheme that involved the Mafia.
3. Artemenko is part of the pro-Putin faction in Ukraine shaped in part by Trumps former campaign manager Paul D. Manafort. Artemenko traveled to Cleveland last summer for the Republican National Convention to meet with members of Trumps campaign.
Remember these names. As the noose tightens, they are likely to figure prominently.
What do you think?
TubbersUK
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(171,133 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)Last edited Sun Feb 19, 2017, 10:48 PM - Edit history (1)
Against Russia. Sounds right up manafort's alley to tie it to Ukraine, considering his ties there.
Trump looks bad cause of yet another link to Sater.
triron
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(91,181 posts)...and all others who have rediscovered their journalistic chops in this emergency.
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