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Lawyer Who Was Said to Have Dirt on Clinton Had Closer Ties to Kremlin Than She Let On
The New York Times ^ | 04/27/2018 | Andrew E. Kramer and Sharon LaFraniere

Posted on 04/27/2018 3:22:00 PM PDT by Fedora

MOSCOW — The Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower in June 2016 on the premise that she would deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton has long insisted she is a private attorney, not a Kremlin operative trying to meddle in the presidential election.

But newly released emails show that in at least one instance two years earlier, the lawyer, Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, worked hand in glove with Russia’s chief legal office to thwart a Justice Department civil fraud case against a well-connected Russian firm.

Ms. Veselnitskaya also appears to have recanted her earlier denials of Russian government ties. During an interview to be broadcast Friday by NBC News, she acknowledged that she was not merely a private lawyer but a source of information for a top Kremlin official, Yuri Y. Chaika, the prosecutor general.

“I am a lawyer, and I am an informant,” she said. “Since 2013, I have been actively communicating with the office of the Russian prosecutor general.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2013; 201606; berezovsky; dellums; fusiongps; khodorkovsky; russianag; russiancollusion; russianlawyer; russianpropaganda; russianpuppets; russianstooges; russiasucks; trump; veselnitskaya
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I don't see this "new" information as particularly demonstrating that Veselnitskaya was acting on behalf of the Kremlin rather than her client. But also of interest is the source of the NYT's information, buried in the article:

The emails were obtained by Dossier, an organization set up by Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, a former tycoon who was stripped of his oil holdings, imprisoned and then exiled from his native Russia. He has emerged as a leading opponent of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

Not mentioned here is the fact that Khodorkovsky was a business partner of one of the most powerful mob bosses in Russia--Boris Berezovsky--before he fell out with Putin, and he cozied up to British intelligence after he went into exile from Russia. There is more to this story than the NYT headline is letting on.

1 posted on 04/27/2018 3:22:00 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; piasa

Ping.


2 posted on 04/27/2018 3:23:18 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora

That’s it! Trump colluded with a Russian spy - its collusion!

Impeach him now!

Except for the little detail he never met Veselnitskaya.


3 posted on 04/27/2018 3:25:17 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Fedora; LS; SunkenCiv

NYTimes-CNN-ABCNNBCBS-FBCINSA just ain’t gonna let go of their Russia-conclusion conspiracy are they?


4 posted on 04/27/2018 3:29:12 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
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To: Fedora
There's something weird about how she entered the US under Obama's reign.

She's just trying to seem more important than she is. The meet was all about adoptions and nothing more...and lasted about 10 minutes.

Meetings: If it's a Repub dealing, it's called collusion. If it's a Dem dealing, it's called Opposition Research.

5 posted on 04/27/2018 3:31:06 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Nope.

Funny thing is their Russian informant didn’t even work for SVR/FSB.

And I doubt Trump campaign officials knew about it, so it wasn’t a conspiracy.

The desperation of the fake news media is showing. They’re trying to make a mountain out of a nonevent - and failing.


6 posted on 04/27/2018 3:32:40 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Nope.

Funny thing is their Russian informant didn’t even work for SVR/FSB.

And I doubt Trump campaign officials knew about it, so it wasn’t a conspiracy.

The desperation of the fake news media is showing. They’re trying to make a mountain out of a nonevent - and failing.


7 posted on 04/27/2018 3:32:41 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Fedora

That may cast doubt on the nyt article, but not what she said in her tv interview. But the infamous meeting she had, was the one in which Don Jr left almost as soon as he arrived, isn’t it?


8 posted on 04/27/2018 3:33:04 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Fedora

Historically speaking, What are the New York Times own ties to the Kremlin?


9 posted on 04/27/2018 3:35:05 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: Fedora

I’ve heard that she was barred from the country and Obama waived it just to get her in here for these meetings.


10 posted on 04/27/2018 3:37:43 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Fedora

Fake Collusion


11 posted on 04/27/2018 3:41:32 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Fedora

Lying dogs NYT fail to mention she was hired by FusionGPS, which means she was a Hillary Employee.


12 posted on 04/27/2018 3:43:15 PM PDT by heights
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To: Flaming Conservative
Yes, that was the meeting. The Senate Intelligence Committee has interviewed her about it, but Mueller has not.
13 posted on 04/27/2018 3:43:47 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: TBP

That was reported early on, and later Obama officials tried to offer an alternate explanation for why she was allowed back in, and then over the last week I recall seeing an article reinforcing the idea that approval for her re-entry came from high up in the Obama administration—DOJ I think—but I need to dig up the details again.


14 posted on 04/27/2018 3:47:51 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora

The meeting was a set-up from go, part of an intelligence operation against Trump. As was the “accidental meeting” of George Populousness and High Commissioner Alexander Downer in a London pub.

It didn’t matter what was discussed either time. All that mattered was the physical proximity, allowing the false narrative to be spun.


15 posted on 04/27/2018 3:49:01 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Fedora

She met with the dems before and after the meeting. Pure set up.


16 posted on 04/27/2018 3:50:07 PM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: Revolutionary

I seem to recall that she and Agalarov lobbied both parties’ conventions about the Magnitsky Act during that time period—she was talking to a lot of people besides Trump, Jr.


17 posted on 04/27/2018 3:54:10 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Travis McGee

“As was the “accidental meeting” of George Populousness and High Commissioner Alexander Downer in a London pub.”

Now, Commissioner Downer won’t say if they Pub Meeting actually took place.


18 posted on 04/27/2018 3:56:29 PM PDT by heights
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To: Fedora
NY Slimes. Stuck on Stupid Russia.
19 posted on 04/27/2018 3:58:41 PM PDT by McGruff (Bring our troops home. Defend our border.)
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To: Fedora

20 posted on 04/27/2018 4:01:27 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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