Posted on 01/20/2018 4:46:45 PM PST by mojito
...Baumgartner had been working alongside Simpson as a Russian translator for a New York law firm defending a Russian holding company, Prevezon, in a money-laundering suit filed by the US Justice Department in Manhattan. Owned by Denis Katsyv, a Putin-tied oligarch, Prevezon was sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act. Also defending Prevezon was Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer who Simpson helped lobby Congress to repeal the Magnitsky Act by attacking William Browder, the banker-turned-human-rights-activist who championed it.
“He speaks Russian,” Simpson said of Baumgartner, after Senate Judiciary Committee staff asked about “subcontractors” he’d hired. “So he would work with the lawyers on gathering Russian language documents, gathering Russian language media reports, talking to witnesses who speak Russian, that sort of thing.” He added Baumgartner also has an “ability to interface with the court system in Russia.”
Simpson told the Senate that Baumgartner helped Steele, who was banned from entering Russia, figure out which hotels Trump stayed in while in Russia and if anyone ever offered him anything while there. But he did that mostly by “reading Russian newspaper accounts and that sort of thing.”
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That is the word. The Russians wrote key parts of the dossier. Hillary paid the Russians to write it.
Not surprised.
“....That is the word. The Russians wrote key parts of the dossier. Hillary paid the Russians to write it....”
Or maybe she was calling in a “note” on the “Uranium 1” deal? Either way, she’s guilty as hell and needs to be locked up.
Our government gave a very favorable settlement on that Russian case.
That might be in the memo.
I posted on it the other day.
LOL
If one can imagine a scenario in which North Korea inflamed and manipulated the media and public opinion in the ROK in order to get the conservative president Park removed from office, then one can probably imagine the U.S. media and public opinion susceptible to the same information warfare. This would be very easy for the Russians, the Chinese, or even the NorKs. It’s where they get the term “useful idiots” if I recall.
No, she did not
Hillary does nothing except give verbal order to a minion that hires a lawyer to hire a consultant corporation to hire a lawyer to do the deed. Or in the case of murder to hire the killer.
FR humor at its very best.
Laundering Suit Ends as Russian Firm, U.S. Claim Victory (May 2017)
The U.S. agreed to take $5.9 million to settle a money-laundering lawsuit tied to a $230 million Russian tax fraud, avoiding a trial that was set to begin Monday.
Both the U.S. and a Cyprus-based company controlled by a Russian businessman claimed victory in avoiding a trial that promised to shed light on an intricate web of shell companies and middlemen that were allegedly used to spirit dirty money out of Russia in violation of international financial regulations.
“Prevezon Targeted
The U.S. claimed the Manhattan condo was bought with a chunk of $230 million from fraudulent Russian tax refunds, linked to the Hermitage affair through Prevezon. The government was targeting Prevezon, owned by Moscow businessman Denis Katsyv, and 11 of its related companies in the forfeiture case. Katsyv, son of an ex-Moscow transportation minister, is involved in the firms along with Russian colleague Timofey Krit and Israeli businessman Alexander Litvak, according to court filings. Prevezon didn’t admit wrongdoing in the settlement.
“This settlement is nothing short of a victory for Prevezon,” Faith Gay, a lawyer for the company, said in a phone interview. “It’s almost an apology by the government.”
Was this the deep state pay off for the Russian help against Trump.
I would be very surprised if Putin had anything to do with it, nor anyone in his ambit (a Russian perhaps, but a liberal one).
The fact is that Putin had much more to lose with a Clinton government: Clinton was hell-bent on provoking war with Russia, whether in Syria or over the Crimea. I’m more inclined to believe that Putin was praying for Trump to win under his breath.
Despite the fact that Trump was obviously going to be a much stronger, more assertive leader, I think Putin recognized that he could negotiate rationally with Trump, who’s fundamentally pragmatic. Clinton’s a wack job and he knew it.
Define ‘Russian’?
https://www.google.ru/amp/s/amp.rbc.ru/rbcnews/society/12/10/2017/59df12759a79478c18ae46e1
There is a RusBusinessConsulting article explaining proverbial ‘Russian lawyer who met with Trump’ s son’. You can read with translator.
Thanks
“” “” The fact is that Putin had much more to lose with a Clinton government: Clinton was hell-bent on provoking war with Russia, whether in Syria or over the Crimea. I’m more inclined to believe that Putin was praying for Trump to win under his breath.”” “”
The whole ‘Russia’ thing has started with Hillary making it into a Secretary of State. It hasn’t started during elections if you paid attention. Hillary was obsessed with Putin long before that. That is basically a representation of Bill Browder who are a big Clinton foundation donor and lost money after Putin government busted his fraudulent operations and sentenced Browder himself to nine years in prison in absentia.
The article has little focus on the so-called ‘collusion’ because for the Russians it is considered proven beyond doubt to be a Clinton election trick and also a way to preempt possible corruption accusations.
You can read between the lines that it were Clinton donors (not without her consent) who ordered the dossier and now stroking the fake collusion narrative.
First they did it to help Hillary and now to block Trump’s promises on foreign policy.
The Russians wanted Hilliary since they had ALL the info on her to BLACKMAIL her!
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