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In reply to the discussion: Pete Strzok has caught something very sinister in testimony [View all]Kid Berwyn
(24,422 posts)26. Trump purged FBI of Russia counterintelligence experts, inc. Strzok.
From just the other year
Trumps Top Targets in the Russia Probe Are Experts in Organized Crime
Some of President Trumps 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 Trumps 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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Trumps latest obsession is with Bruce Ohr, a career Justice Department official who spent years investigating Russian organized crime and corruptionan 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 FBIs 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 Ohrs wifes past work for Fusion GPSthe opposition-research firm that hired Steele in 2016 to research Trumps Russia ties.
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Trumps 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 Trumps 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 Deripaskas 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 Trumps 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 Departments 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/
Traitor Trump, as PRESIDENT, targeted the FBI Witch Hunters who were tracking Putin and his Mafiya.
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Can you say conspiracy to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, conspiracy to overthrow
onecaliberal
Apr 2022
#2
If DU is to be reliable you should be grateful someone allowed you to correct an error
alphafemale
Apr 2022
#18
Well, since folks are busting your chops about the structure of your post.....
A HERETIC I AM
Apr 2022
#33
Yes. Acting insulted if someone points out an error you can correct is immature.
alphafemale
Apr 2022
#34
Snide response - unneeded. DU is a bit of a news organization. Many of us rely on it.
erronis
Apr 2022
#12
Seeing they're not doing much investigating now, it was a pretty good assumption.
dem4decades
Apr 2022
#10
What "deputy" are they referring to? How encrypted is SIGNAL and can it be
Frustratedlady
Apr 2022
#11
Signal should be totally impervious to decryption. All messages are encrypted end-to-end.
erronis
Apr 2022
#13
Thanks for the explanation. Beyond my pay grade, but I get the general idea.
Frustratedlady
Apr 2022
#19
strzok was a major punching bag for team limbaugh regarding hacked communications with girlfriend
certainot
Apr 2022
#17
limbaugh was trumps neighbor, dinner, partner, golf partner and being ablle to feed llimbaugh was
certainot
Apr 2022
#40
Enforcing compliance with the vote of the fake electors, would be my guess. nt
SunSeeker
Apr 2022
#23