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Kid Berwyn

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39. Explains why Dimdonnie purged FBI of Russia counterintelligence experts.
Wed Mar 23, 2022, 02:13 PM
Mar 2022

Conspiracy to commit treason.



Trump’s Top Targets in the Russia Probe Are Experts in Organized Crime

Some of President Trump’s favorite targets in the Russia probe have spent their careers in the Justice Department and the FBI investigating organized crime and money laundering, particularly as they pertain to Russia.


NATASHA BERTRAND
The Atlantic, AUG 30, 2018

Bruce Ohr. Lisa Page. Andrew Weissmann. Andrew McCabe. President Donald Trump has relentlessly attacked these FBI and Justice Department officials as dishonest “Democrats” engaged in a partisan “witch hunt” led by the special counsel determined to tie his campaign to Russia. But Trump’s attacks have also served to highlight another thread among these officials and others who have investigated his campaign: their extensive experience in probing money laundering and organized crime, particularly as they pertain to Russia.

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Trump’s latest obsession is with Bruce Ohr, a career Justice Department official who spent years investigating Russian organized crime and corruption—an expertise he shared with another Trump target named Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence operative who provided valuable intelligence on Russia to the State Department and the FBI’s Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force prior to authoring the Trump-Russia dossier in 2016. Ohr and Steele met in 2007, according to The New York Times, and stayed in touch as a result of their shared interests and mutual respect. Trump has tweeted about Ohr nearly a dozen times this month alone, complaining about his relationship with Steele and Ohr’s wife’s past work for Fusion GPS—the opposition-research firm that hired Steele in 2016 to research Trump’s Russia ties.

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Trump’s fixation with seeing Ohr ousted from the Justice Department could be perceived as yet another attempt to undermine the credibility of the people who have investigated him. It could also be interpreted as an attack on someone with deep knowledge of the shady characters Trump and his cohort have been linked to, including Semion Mogilevich, the Russian mob boss, and Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate close to Putin who did business with Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. (Incidentally, another Manafort associate, the Ukrainian billionaire Dmitry Firtash, admitted that he only managed to be in business because Mogilevich allowed him to be, according to a leaked 2008 State Department cable.) Ohr was involved in banning Deripaska from the U.S. in 2006, due to his alleged ties to organized crime and fear that he would try to launder money into American real estate. Nearly a decade later, Ohr and the FBI sought Deripaska’s help in taking down overseas criminal syndicates.

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The president has denied having any business ties to Russia, and his dream of building a Trump Tower Moscow never materialized. But his links to Russian oligarchs and mobsters from the former Soviet Union have been documented: Millions of dollars from the former Soviet Union flowed into Trump’s developments and casinos throughout the 1990s, as the journalist Craig Unger has chronicled, as oligarchs looked for a place to hide their money in the West. The Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was once known as a hot spot for Brooklyn mobsters associated with the Russian Mafia, and quickly became the “favorite East Coast destination” of the top Russian mob boss Vyacheslav Ivankov, according to the 2000 book Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America. It was also repeatedly cited by the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network for having inadequate money-laundering controls.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/trumps-top-targets-in-the-russia-probe-are-experts-in-organized-crime/569056/



As PRESIDENT Trump targeted the FBI Witch Hunters who were tracking Putin and his Mafiya. And then, after they all got caught, he pardoned Manafort.
Where is Paul Manafort now? calimary Mar 2022 #1
They just pulled him off a plane, trying to flee to Dubai. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #2
Oh really??? calimary Mar 2022 #3
... Duppers Mar 2022 #10
Wow! Made my day already! Hope that snake ends KPN Mar 2022 #32
Made my day, too! calimary Mar 2022 #47
Arrest him. TDFG cannot protect him. ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2022 #4
Is he currently under any indictments? dumbcat Mar 2022 #15
His passport is no longer valid. patphil Mar 2022 #21
That wasn't my question dumbcat Mar 2022 #38
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Mar 2022 #62
Why do you believe that? former9thward Mar 2022 #14
This is why liberalgunwilltravel Mar 2022 #17
That says nothing about being in custody. former9thward Mar 2022 #23
K&R "2016: Manafort and Trump secretly hack the RNC Platform to remove support for Ukraine." AnotherMother4Peace Mar 2022 #5
2016: Manafort and Putin install Putin Puppet Trump in the US. Botany Mar 2022 #6
waterboarding Old Okie Mar 2022 #36
don't forget palin. when manafort was mccain campaign cochair, limbaugh would not support mccain certainot Mar 2022 #57
Thank you for this very valuable information. niyad Mar 2022 #58
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Mar 2022 #61
It does Tumbulu Mar 2022 #63
Bada bing, bada boom Achilleaze Mar 2022 #7
The guy needs to sit in jail KS Toronado Mar 2022 #8
Oh yes. I said it before Manafort is the linchpin Walleye Mar 2022 #9
Yep. JoanofArgh Mar 2022 #11
The guy on the right is quite Manafucked now. And hey Pinhead Stone... lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #12
Roger and Paul A_Steel_Magnolia Mar 2022 #13
Yes, the interesting question is exactly why/when it was revoked. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #18
😊 Joinfortmill Mar 2022 #45
Stone lives quite close to Miami airport obamanut2012 Mar 2022 #24
Hmm...what happened to the wheelchair he needed for his court appearances? nt allegorical oracle Mar 2022 #52
He must have had the same doctor for rehab as Bill Cosby had. BigmanPigman Mar 2022 #53
RW attack is to say Obama engineered a coup against Yanukovych in 2014. Manafort omitted. nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2022 #16
2015: Manafort gets chummy with his old Trump Tower neighbor Trump? L. Coyote Mar 2022 #19
LOL! lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #20
Also don't forget liberalgunwilltravel Mar 2022 #22
Yup! Botany Mar 2022 #25
Indeed! I knew that and then forgot it. Been a busy five years...welcome! Evolve Dammit Mar 2022 #64
Not all by himself. Flynn is in there, too, along with a few key Russians Warpy Mar 2022 #26
True. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #27
Roger and Paul A_Steel_Magnolia Mar 2022 #28
Manafort contacted the Trump campaign and offered his services. For free. tanyev Mar 2022 #29
Yup - I should have put that in the timeline. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #31
Does this tell you anything? Because whatever he made on the campaign was nothing compared ancianita Mar 2022 #41
👍 Joinfortmill Mar 2022 #44
This deserves its own OP for visiblity. niyad Mar 2022 #59
K&R! SheltieLover Mar 2022 #30
K&R UCmeNdc Mar 2022 #33
2020: Chump PARDONS Manafort before leaving office FakeNoose Mar 2022 #34
The pardon couldn't cover anything after the date of the pardon. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #35
Manafort's Pardon is null and void BlueIdaho Mar 2022 #37
Interesting point, thanks. So probably that is why he's been held stateside. ancianita Mar 2022 #42
Explains why Dimdonnie purged FBI of Russia counterintelligence experts. Kid Berwyn Mar 2022 #39
All those purged should be brought back in. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #40
Glad to see that the article also mentioned Peter Strozk, who dealt with niyad Mar 2022 #60
It's spelled TREASON Joinfortmill Mar 2022 #43
Thank yu for clarifying this so well... FirstLight Mar 2022 #46
Your OP makes the whole exercise seem so....tawdry. BobTheSubgenius Mar 2022 #48
Any notes on others traveling to Dubai of late??? Who else was involved in Manafort's meetup??? ultralite001 Mar 2022 #49
Yup. A pattern is a pattern and it all makes sense. bucolic_frolic Mar 2022 #50
Unfortunately there are lots of ways of leaving the country without going through erronis Mar 2022 #51
You forgot he picked VP Pence. flying_wahini Mar 2022 #54
Fuck the Fartoman Blue Owl Mar 2022 #55
2022: Trump still walks free. Hotler Mar 2022 #56
Can "We the People" get the damn un-redacted Mueller report???? Losing faith rapidly Evolve Dammit Mar 2022 #65
Free should be in quotes; Not sure if the plaform change was in secret, but yeah, for sure he's at themaguffin Mar 2022 #66
The change was in secret; it took a long time to figure out who did it. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #67
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