William Browder testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee about registration of foreign agents. He is not buying the cover story that the Russians met the Trump folks and talked about Adoption. In fact he says if you look at Veselnitskaya's Twitter feed she almost never talks about adoption, but she talks about Browder and the Magnitsky Act all the time.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?431852-1/william-browder-overturning-magnitsky-act-putins-top-priority#
Browder: INDEED. YOU'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT ADOPTION. NOBODY WAS TALKING ABOUT CHILDREN.
Sen. Whitehouse: NOBODY WAS TALKING ABOUT ADOPTION. THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THE REPEAL OF SANCTIONS SO THEY COULD KEEP THEIR MONEY IN AMERICA.
Browder: ADOPTION IS IN EFFECT CODE FOR TALKING ABOUT LIFTING SANCTIONS.
THAT'S CORRECT.
Other topics touche upon included Fusion GPS who lobbied against the Magnitsky AND who commissioned the dossier on Trump from Orbis Business Intelligence, the Uranium One sale.
Some stuff I didn't know.
Trump can't overturn the Magnitsky Act, but the president does have the power of removing people from the Treasury sanctions list, so there is real possibility of quid pro quo in this meeting.
Treasury sanctions don't just apply in the US. Browder said that any bank in the world doesn't want to violate US treasury sanctions. So the folks on the list now have big problems moving their money. He said the reason Russia is so upset about the Magnitsky Act is it affects Putin's money and he doesn't want his accounts frozen.
Death's associated with the Magnitsky case.
Sergei Magnitsky, uncovered a massive tax fraud involving high officials. After reporting this crime, he himself was then arrested and he died in Prison. Three years later became first Russian to go on trial after death
Boris Netmsov, opposition leader argued for passage of Magnitsky Act in US and Canada murdered right close to the Kremlin.
Vladimir Kara-Murza worked with Netmsov on Magnitsky act, poisoned twice, survived
Nikolai Gorokhov, the Magnitsky family lawyer, thrown from fourth floor window, survived.
Prevezon, the company that Veselnitskaya represents had about 18 million frozen in the US, but has spent about 30 million in his anti-Magnitsky Act campaign.
Veselnitskaya is the lawyer for the Pyotr D. Katsyv, "vice president of Russian Railways, a state-owned railroad monopoly that is the country’s largest employer." Browder said this was the second most important company in Russia, so she very close to the Kremlin.
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DarkMath ago
“I read the transcript carefully – there is nothing new there, he has already said all these things before. And I can tell you with certainty that… Browder will give false testimony” Veselnitskaya told RT on the phone: https://www.rt.com/usa/397705-russia-probe-veselnitskaya-browder-us/
Sorry AreWeSure but the whole "It was the Russians!(tm)" story was put there to distract from the REAL CRIMES which took place within the Clinton Foundation.
Exhibit A. is the Awan brothers cluster fuck. Did one of the Awan brothers not get arrested yesterday?
Does that upset you? It does?
I would never ordinarily say this but is there any way you can get to a pound cake?
You are Stuart Smalley AreWeSure. It cracks me up.
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Are_we_sure ago
It's actually the "ex-Soviets" story. However, if there was nothing to hide why did
Donald Trump Jr lie?
....I never met with any Russians
....I never represented the Trump campaign in any meeting with Russians
....I never discussed any government policies with the Russians
....I had a short introductory meeting with the Russians about adoption policy, not campaign issues
...I met with a Russian individual who said she had damaging information on Hillary Clinton which would help my father's campaign.
....Family friends of my father who are close the Kremlin reached out to me as part of an official Russian government campaign to damage Clinton. I enthusiastically agreed to setup the meeting and invited my brother in law and Paul Manafort. You caught me red handed. Here's the emails that prove it.
...OK it wasn't just a Russian individual, a lobbyist who is also a suspected spy came, my friend Rob who set up the meeting,
......OK and a known Russian money-launderer. He was at the meeting too. I'm not sure why we needed money laundering expert, but there you go.
Why did Jared Kushner lie about this meeting and his other meetings with the Russians?
Why did Sessions lie about his meetings with the Russians?
This came out the other day about Dmytro Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch. He and Manafort were going to buy a hotel together. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doj-ex-manafort-associate-firtash-top-tier-comrade-russian-mobsters-n786806
Wikileaks cables on Manafort and Firtash. Firtash is part of the biggest organized crime family in the world headed by Seymon Mogilevich and a backer of Yushchenko
Manafort got paid millions to help Yushchenko's image. https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06KIEV473_a.html
DarkMath ago
"It's actually the "ex-Soviets" story"
You're so obnoxiously desperate it warms my heart. You have nothing. The CIA and FBI have said you have nothing. If there had been something to the Russian story Barrack Obama would have done something about it. He did nothing because there WAS NOTHING.
The sad part is there is real evidence of Killary K Klinton committing real crimes like brokering the sale of phosphorous for use in making HIGHLY ILLEGAL White Phosphorous weapons that do this to the faces of Yemeni girls.
Why aren't you investigating Hillary Clinton for crimes as heinous as that?
SHAME ON YOU.
I never met with any Russians either bee tee dubs. I don't know how delusion you are. Better safe than sorry.
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