EXCLUSIVE Low-Profile Real Estate Exec Knew of Russia's Hillary 'Dirt' [View all]

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Source: The Daily Beast


Roman Beniaminov, a Low-Profile Real Estate Exec Turned Pop Star Manager, Knew About Russias Dirt on Hillary

Investigators now may have another person to talk to about that infamous Trump Tower meeting.

BETSY WOODRUFF
11.20.17 4:12 PM ET

Days before the infamous Trump Tower meeting in June 2016, a low-profile real estate figure with ties to powerful Russians alerted a meeting participant that the topic of dirt on Hillary Clinton could come up, The Daily Beast has learned.

That figure, Roman Beniaminov, didnt attend the meeting himself. But he had close ties to several figures in and around it, including Emin Agalarov, the Azeri-Russian pop star who helped set up that Trump Tower confab and whose father is an ally of Vladimir Putin.

Ike Kaveladze was one of the participants in the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, Donald Trump Jr., and Kremlin-connected attorney Natalia Vesilnitskaya. Kaveladze told Congressional investigators that when he was first invited to participate, he was under the impression that he would just be there as a translator and that the meeting would involve discussion of Magnitsky Act sanctions.

Scott Balber, Kaveladzes attorney, told The Daily Beast that before Kaveladze headed from Los Angeles to New York for the meeting, he saw an email noting that Kushner, Manafort, and Trump Jr. would all be involved. He thought it would be odd for them to attend the meeting, so he called Beniaminov before heading to New York. Both Beniaminov and Kaveladze have worked with the Agalarovs real estate development company, the Crocus Group.

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