[ptsal]

**snip** Van der Zwaan also has family ties to the Russian elite: His father-in-law is German Khan, who Forbes ranks at No. 11 on its list of billionaires in Russia. Khan is worth around $10 billion and made his money from oil, banking and telecommunications, according to Forbes.

Russia / Ukraine     Russia / Ukraine

A 2012 Skadden report on the Tymoshenko case, available on a Ukrainian government website, described van der Zwaan as a “participating attorney” who focused on “cross-border transactions and disputes covering various industries and sectors.” The report said he was fluent in Russian. (The cached version of his Skadden biography said he also speaks Dutch, English and French.)

Around September 2017, the Department of Justice requested information and documents from Skadden related to the work it did on behalf of Viktor Yanukovych, the former president of Ukraine whose political party is considered pro-Russia, The New York Times reported at the time. Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman who is facing charges in the Mueller probe, did work for Yanukovych’s party.

[ptsal]

head’s up

[niteowl77]

Is Mueller doing George Soros’ work while billing the taxpayers?

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Mueller needs to investigate college student Bill Clinton’s trip to Russia in 1969.

[buckalfa]

Every time I see the word Ukraine, I feel the need to bathe.