Posted on 07/13/2017 4:35:39 AM PDT by browniexyz
Preet and other DOJ lawyers were fired in March, the case was settled in May if I understand this article correctly. Here is an important quote from the article, and an interesting quote from the Comments. It also explains the reference to talking about “adoptions” from Russia.
“Katsyv also formed a group called the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation, which first registered to lobby last April. The group is run by lobbyists Rinat Akhmetshin and Robert Arakelian and spent nearly $200,000 on lobbying last year. It says in its disclosure forms that it focuses on ‘foreign adoption issues,’ a term that has become shorthand for opponents of the Magnitsky Act. The Magnitsky Act is a suite of financial sanctions targeting Russian officials and businesses that was passed by congress in 2012. The law is named after dissident lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died after injuries he sustained in Russian prison in 2009. In response to the sanctions, the Russian government banned Americans from adopting children in the country.”
This detailed Comment is one possible interpretation of the facts: “So a Russian businessman Katsyv with ties to Putin is about to be indicted in a $230 million money laundering scheme, but right before the indictment Trump fires Preet Bhrara the lead prosecutor and 100 other Justice dept lawyers. Resulting in AG Sessions settling, what was considered a slam dunk $230 million case, for $6 million. Magnitsky the Russian lawyer who uncovered the scheme somehow finds his way to a Russian jail and dies mysteriously. The email chain exposing lil Donnie, Jared and Manafort clearly states the Russian lawyer they were meeting with could not make it until 3PM as she was in court defending a Russian company tied to Putin for money laundering. Trumpsters I know still won’t believe it. Conservative news will spin this into a frenzy..but it’s clear Russia helped Trump, Trump helped Russia. In the US I used to know we call that treason. Just wait until Mueller uncovers evidence that Trump (and Wilbur Ross) were the main washer of Russian dough.
If any of this is true AG Sessions may have deprived the US Treasury of a $224million settlement.
See my Comment #101. After reading some of the other FR Comments, I wish I had more information on whether/why this case was considered “a slam dunk” for the full $230M, before AG Sessions settled it for $6M.
BTTT
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