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MelissaB

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Fri Jul 21, 2017, 09:42 AM Jul 2017

Exclusive: Moscow lawyer who met Trump Jr. had Russian spy agency as client

Source: Reuters

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. after his father won the Republican nomination for the 2016 U.S. presidential election counted Russia's FSB security service among her clients for years, Russian court documents seen by Reuters show.

The documents show that the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, successfully represented the FSB's interests in a legal wrangle over ownership of an upscale property in northwest Moscow between 2005 and 2013.

The FSB, successor to the Soviet-era KGB service, was headed by Vladimir Putin before he became Russian president.

There is no suggestion that Veselnitskaya is an employee of the Russian government or intelligence services, and she has denied having anything to do with the Kremlin.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-lawyer-exclusive-idUSKBN1A61LZ?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social

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Exclusive: Moscow lawyer who met Trump Jr. had Russian spy agency as client (Original Post) MelissaB Jul 2017 OP
And the Kremlin has never heard of her dalton99a Jul 2017 #1
And mob lawyers never have any actual linkage with the mob stevenleser Jul 2017 #2
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