At the heart of the matter...without Russian government involvement, what you have is the Russian billionaire core...sitting out in Cyprus, that has accusations of money-laundering and this US law (freshly on the books) that was being used by Preet Bhrarara to dig at the money-crew.
For whatever reason, they think it’s in the best interest to give a visa to this gal and let her into the US to discuss matters. She’s only there to talk over lessening the public law, and getting the money-laundering aspect tossed out. I get the impression that she was getting nowhere with Bhrarara or the Justice Department....so she figured to go and test the waters with the Trump team and see if she could entice them into a special deal.
We are back to stage one...it’s not Russian government involvement, and there’s no hacking theme to this story. Just accusations of money-laundering, which was all created by the Obama Administration...NOT the Trump folks.
Maybe the $230 million case was settled for only $6 million in May 2017 because the work of all of these shady characters and their U.S. Justice Department handlers to compromise the Trump campaign last year would have come to light if the case had gone to trial.
But the article did say that Bharara & Lynch's DOJ did agree to a settlement of the charges of hundreds of millions in unpaid tax for a mere $6m.
So why did the DOJ give her and her clients such a sweet deal? Did she to return the favor in some way?
We are back to stage one...it’s not Russian government involvement, and there’s no hacking theme to this story. Just accusations of money-laundering, which was all created by the Obama Administration...NOT the Trump folks.
Not really. She was working for a rich guy doing anti-Magnitsky act work. On behalf of the Russian government no doubt. You see this public-private mixing of roles in Putinist Russia all the time. It’s how they roll.
The deal should be investigated. Dems think it was settled after preet fired because of trump being a russian stooge. Trump supporters think it was settled after preet fired because it was a payoff
It could be it was just a flimsy case.it was settled just a few days before trial.
Someone needs to look at the details of this deal/case
There is still the possibility that the lawyer was an asset..or they were trying to turn her. This could also explain why she was allowed in under pretext of trial. It would explain how she got involved in the Jr escapade.