American lobbyist Adam Waldman met with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska a few days before he visited Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, The Project discovered. Deripaska has been Waldman’s client since at least 2009. According to the FARA’s list, in 2017 and the first half of 2018, Waldman’s law firm received about $780,000 for representing Deripaska’s interests in the United States. . .Assange met with Waldman, as well as with Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, The Guardian previously reported. The last meeting between Assange and Manafort, according to The Guardian, was in the spring of 2016 — a few months before Wikileaks published the Democratic Party’s hacked correspondence. Meetings with Waldman took place on January 12 and 13, 2017, shortly before Trump’s inauguration. Both Manafort and Deripaska are now objects of interest to US Special Prosecutor Robert Muller, who is investigating Russia’s alleged interference in the American presidential election. In April of this year, Deripaska came under US sanction for his ties with Russian authorities. The Project has learned that a few days before Waldman’s meeting with Assange, he spent at least one evening in the company of Deripaska. Waldman is present in a video found by The Project. The record was made by escort girl Nastya Rybka, in Austria, where she accompanied Deripaska to his parties. . .In addition to negotiations with Prikhodko on the yacht, this habit of Deripaska is confirmed by another, unpublished book of Rybka, which is at the disposal of The Project (the authenticity of the book is proved by photos and videos of the events described there, as well as by the words of Rybka’s friend). From the book, among other things, it shows that in September 2016, in the Deripaska mansion in Ust-Labinsk in Kuban, negotiations with an American guest and alleged officers of law enforcement agencies were combined with sexual orgy and feasts. Nastya Rybka and Alex Leslie (Alexander Kirillov) have been detained in Thailand for illegal labor activities. Rybka offered 16 hours of audio recordings of Deripaska’s conversations, allegedly indicating that he was going to intervene in the American elections, in exchange for political asylum in the United States, wrote The New York Times. Waldman’s lawyer did not respond to The Project’s request, nor did Waldman’s company, Endeavor Group. The Project sent a request to Deripaska’s company Rusal, but has not yet received a response.: American lobbyist Adam Waldman met with Oleg Deripaska before visiting Julian Assange in London
A longtime US lobbyist for the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska visited Julian Assange nine times at the Ecuadorian embassy in London last year, according to visitor logs seen by the Guardian. Adam Waldman, who has worked as a Washington lobbyist for the metals tycoon since 2009, had more meetings with Assange in 2017 than almost anyone else, the records show. . .Waldman is a lawyer and consultant in Washington and Deripaska’s primary lobbyist. He also represents other clients including Hollywood stars. Last year Deripaska paid Waldman about $562,000. According to filings to the Department of Justice (DoJ) by Waldman’s firm, the Endeavor Group, his work for Deripaska focused on advising the oligarch’s company UC Rusal on legal issues. When Deripaska first hired him, in 2009, Waldman’s firm was on a $40,000-per-month retainer. The Russian magnate was having problems obtaining a visa because of alleged connections to organised crime, which Deripaska denies. Waldman lobbied the US government to get Deripaska a visa. . .: US lobbyist for Russian oligarch visited Julian Assange nine times last year