I don't know if Congress should have passed that law in 2012 or not. But I don't think we should have foreign business persons/lawyers/ US people doing business with foreign companies ... lobbying Congress either way. That's where this stuff is problematic.
I read Browder’s book, and found it rather convincing.
But, he might have had an agenda, and it might be biased. I can’t tell without hearing the other side, and then only maybe. My question on this counter-movie is, why didn’t they put it on YouTube and promote it via the Internet?
Also, the Lynch connection to the visa extension is of more than passing interest. How did the matter come to Loretta’s attention. Who pushed it in front of her desk.
The lawyer comes across as an amateurish pawn in this scenario, likely used as a pawn by the Obama administration to set up Trump for Russian collusion charges (or at least to justify FISA warrants) without even being aware of it.
Ace of Spades writes:
Mr. Browder is the CEO of Hermitage Capital Management (“Hermitage”), an investment firm that at one time was the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia According to the Justice Department, in 2007, Russian government officials and members of organized crime engaged in corporate identity theft, stealing the corporate identities of three Hermitage companies and using them to fraudulently obtain $230 million.
The $230 million was then extensively laundered into accounts outside of Russia. When Hermitage learned of the situation, its attorneys, including Mr. Sergei Magnitsky, investigated. In December of 2007, Hermitage filed criminal complaints with law enforcement agencies in Russia, complaints which identified the Russian government officials who had been involved. In response, the Russian government assigned the case to the very officials involved in the crime, who then arrested Mr. Magnitsky and kept him in pretrial detention for nearly a year, until he died under highly suspicious circumstances after being beaten by guards and denied medical treatment.