Posted on 10/25/2017 8:04:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
An interesting sidelight to the Russian Uranium One caper was reported by The Hill yesterday involving a Russian TENEX executive that the FBI was investigating for bribery and extortion who was granted a visa to enter the US by the Obama administration.
TENEX is an American subsidiary of Rosatom, the company involved in buying an interest in Uranium One.
The records show TENEX executive Vadim Mikerin was engaged in illegal conduct as early as the fall of 2009, yet he was allowed to enter the country by the Obama administration with a L1 temporary work visa when he arrived in December 2011.
Milkerin’s visa was renewed in August 2014, just months before he was arrested and charged with extortion, the records show. He and his company applied for the visa in summer 2011, records show.
The lengthy delay is now being investigated by multiple GOP-led congressional committees, one of which sent a letter Tuesday to the State Department and Homeland Security Department demanding answers.
“It is concerning that a suspected criminal was able to apply for and renew a work visa while being under FBI investigation,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote in the letter.
Officials for the FBI, State and Homeland did not return calls and emails seeking an explanation why Mikerin was granted a visa after the FBI already had evidence he was engaged in wrongdoing.
Officials familiar with law enforcement issues involving visas said it was possible the FBI evidence on Mikerin was not flagged in databases checked by State and Homeland before Mikerin was granted entry.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
An L1 is not typically a big deal. Your company applies, you go to the embassy for an interview, and your visa is approved. They are checking to see if you are a bona fide employee of the company, that you have a managerial or executive position, and that your company does business in the US. If that is the case, you’re pretty much in automatically.
Where is Blabby Farkas and ValJar these days?
Where is Skippy?
So much silence..... There must be a fire with all of the smoke coming out of DC.
Obama’s scandals far, far exceed those of Richard Nixon, but because of his Democrat media cover and the cowardly Republicans, he got away with it. He bragged that his administration had “no scandals,” as he left office. That is an indictment of our political system.
Where is Blabby Farkas and ValJar these days?
Where is Skippy?
So much silence..... There must be a fire with all of the smoke coming out of DC.
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where is debbie blabbermount shultz?
where is imran awan?
where is seth rich?
The web the Democrats weaved is going to snare them. The Democrats thought they weaved it so well to capture Republicans. It appears they caught themselves
Choir practice at CNN
This is kind of a “nothing burger” story unless we know that the reason the bribery suspect was given a Visa.
If the reason was because someone from the State Department under the orders of Clinton used pressure to make sure he got a Visa, then that is a huge story. Short of that, it could be FBI wanting to conduct a sting operation or gather more evidence or carelessness of a huge federal government in keeping out bad characters.
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