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MMA fighter with links to Trump, Cohen is questioned by FBI
Boston Herald ^ | 29 Apr 2018 | Associated Press

Posted on 04/29/2018 3:49:52 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss

ROSEMONT, Ill. — A Russian mixed martial arts fighter who has connections with President Donald Trump, the president's personal attorney Michael Cohen and Russian President Vladimir Putin was questioned this week by the FBI, his manager confirmed Saturday.

Fedor Emelianenko was questioned by agents who met him in his hotel room on Tuesday, manager Jerry Millen said before Emelianenko's Bellator MMA heavyweight fight against Frank Mir. Millen declined to detail his client's conversations with the agents.

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Putin has attended Emelianenko's fights, and the 41-year-old fighter has been photographed with the Russian president. His connection with Trump dates back to 2008, when he was signed by Affliction Entertainment, a fight league in which Trump had an ownership stake. Trump announced a joint venture involving MMA and Emelianenko at a news conference on June 5, 2008.

Affliction ended up folding for financial reasons after two events, both headlined by Emelianenko.

Cohen was the league's chief operating officer. Two weeks ago, the FBI raided Cohen's New York offices, hotel and home, seeking information about a nondisclosure agreement he brokered with porn star Stormy Daniels days before the 2016 election. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has said she had an affair with Trump in 2006.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fedoremelianenko; jamescomey; lisabarsoomian; michaelcohen; rodrosenstein; stephanieclifford; stormydaniels
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To: Meet the New Boss

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-tweets-about-chuck-schumer-nancy-pelosi-photos-with-putin-russian-envoy/


21 posted on 04/29/2018 4:30:35 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: EvilCapitalist
COBOL2Java: "Oh, crap, I had a Black Russian once..."

22 posted on 04/29/2018 4:38:21 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Wonderful theory, wrong species)
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To: dainbramaged

Funny you should say that - I was posting over on Sherdog after the fight, I had seen a pic posted of Trump standing next to Fedor and said “There’s ol’ Bobby Mulehead’s Russian connection”.


23 posted on 04/29/2018 4:39:54 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: Meet the New Boss

Trump has written with a pen, Putin has written with a pen, therefor Trump colluded with Putin.


24 posted on 04/29/2018 4:44:28 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Meet the New Boss

“the president’s personal attorney Michael Cohen and Russian President Vladimir Putin was questioned this week by the FBI”

why on earth would Putin allow the FBI to question him?


25 posted on 04/29/2018 4:45:04 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Meet the New Boss
"A Russian mixed martial arts fighter who has connections with President Donald Trump"

i wonder if Mueller has gotten around to questioning Ken yet:


26 posted on 04/29/2018 4:47:19 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: phothus
This IG report and the work by Huber better come hard and fast

Good luck with that. I think it is nothing more then a stall tactic. Around September or early October, mueller will come out with a report that criminally implicates Trump. None of it will be provable and it will be complete BS. But it gets them through the election which they think the dems will take the house and senate. I hope it backfires on them, but I'm not confident it will. JMHO
27 posted on 04/29/2018 4:52:41 PM PDT by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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To: Meet the New Boss

This is so........sad? Desperate? Cheesy? I just don’t know what to say....you can’t make this stuff up, and yet....


28 posted on 04/29/2018 5:12:09 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: House Atreides

Believe me. I’d take whatever is in there as well.

I discovered Bulgari Shampoo and soaps by staying at The Four Seasons.

Trump properties are nice.

Four Seasons, Peninsula, etc are better but, always admired Trump and like to stay there for fun.

I need to check Trump Vegas off my list before they destroy it and build a new property....


29 posted on 04/29/2018 6:11:44 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Vendome

What a joke this “investigation” has become.


30 posted on 04/29/2018 7:41:22 PM PDT by jyo19
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To: Meet the New Boss

Fedor should have ground and pounded those SOBs.


31 posted on 04/29/2018 7:43:45 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: freedumb2003

#4. No you are not next, but pro-wrestler Alexander Volkhov sure is. So is wrestler “Snitsky” and “Natalya”. Pretty soon the WWE etc won’t have any wrestlers left with Russian names

Then they will come for “ Kelly Kelly”. So would I for that matter.


32 posted on 04/29/2018 10:25:01 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: catnipman

Read the paragraph again...Putin wasn’t questioned by the FBI, just the part that says “the fighter has connections with”..Putin is the 3rd one mentioned, just the fighter was questioned.

A Russian mixed martial arts fighter who has connections with President Donald Trump, the president’s personal attorney Michael Cohen and Russian President Vladimir Putin was questioned this week by the FBI, his manager confirmed Saturday.


33 posted on 04/29/2018 11:23:02 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: catnipman

there should be a comma after Putin’s name....


34 posted on 04/29/2018 11:24:09 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: Meet the New Boss

Mueler has no sense of decency. He knows he can’t pin anything on Trump so he does these bullcrap things to try to agitate the President to fire him knowing full well that the democraps will get all over Trump about that as grounds for impeachment. Well, that won’t happen either proving that democrats are very stupid people with absolutely no shame.


35 posted on 04/30/2018 3:29:59 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: tina07

“Putin wasn’t questioned by the FBI”

my comment was a sarcastic commentary on the poor quality writing of the article, since one COULD easily read that sentence as saying Putin was being interviewed by the FBI ...


36 posted on 04/30/2018 9:13:50 AM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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