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In reply to the discussion: So, in reality it wasnt Hillary who was part an oligarchic conspiracy. She was a target of one. [View all]BumRushDaShow
(167,841 posts)66. Ha! Check this out!
I missed this -
The Russian-owned real-estate firm Prevezon earlier this year hired former FBI Director Louis Freeh to help the company negotiate a settlement agreement with the US government over an alleged money-laundering operation that involved an elaborate Russian tax-fraud scheme that implicated high-level Kremlin officials.
That detail was in a memorandum released on Thursday by Joon Kim, the acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York, seeking to enforce the settlement agreement Prevezon struck with the government in May for roughly $5.9 million.
Prevezon is also represented by Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with top Trump campaign officials in June 2016 at Trump Tower to lobby for repealing the 2012 Magnitsky Act.
The Prevezon case garnered high-profile attention because of its ties to a $230 million tax-fraud scheme uncovered in 2008 by the Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, whose suspicious death aroused international media attention and spurred the passage of the US law, which was designed to punish those suspected of involvement.
http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-director-louis-freeh-russia-prevezon-money-laundering-2017-11
That detail was in a memorandum released on Thursday by Joon Kim, the acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York, seeking to enforce the settlement agreement Prevezon struck with the government in May for roughly $5.9 million.
Prevezon is also represented by Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with top Trump campaign officials in June 2016 at Trump Tower to lobby for repealing the 2012 Magnitsky Act.
The Prevezon case garnered high-profile attention because of its ties to a $230 million tax-fraud scheme uncovered in 2008 by the Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, whose suspicious death aroused international media attention and spurred the passage of the US law, which was designed to punish those suspected of involvement.
http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-director-louis-freeh-russia-prevezon-money-laundering-2017-11
Of course you do have a cadre of "famous" criminal defense lawyers who take cases for some nefarious types including mob figures and the like, but the above is a rather interesting choice.
Also thanks to hexola for the heads-up on that one!
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So, in reality it wasnt Hillary who was part an oligarchic conspiracy. She was a target of one. [View all]
boston bean
Feb 2018
OP
One has to start wondering how many of those "on the left" were really in Russia?
George II
Feb 2018
#29
And M$M people like Andrea Mitchell keep repeating the conservative lies even today.
ffr
Feb 2018
#45
Total shame. Real blight. It wasnt like people werent pointing this madness out.
boston bean
Feb 2018
#7