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Old 07-14-2017, 06:21 PM
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Why does this not surprise me that the smug little troll is showing why he is Trump's choice for Attorney General?

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Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday asking why the Department of Justice settled a major money-laundering case involving a real-estate company owned by the son of a powerful Russian government official whose lawyer met with Donald Trump Jr. last year.

Trump Jr., the president's eldest son, on Tuesday tweeted an email chain from June 2016 in which he entertained accepting damaging information from a "Russian government attorney" about Hillary Clinton as part of the Kremlin's support for his father's campaign.

That attorney, Natalia Veselnitskaya, represents the family of Pyotr Katsyv, the former vice governor of the Moscow region, whose son, Denis, owns the real-estate company Prevezon. The DOJ had been investigating whether Prevezon laundered millions of dollars through New York City real estate when the case was unexpectedly settled two days before going to trial in May.

"Last summer, Donald Trump Jr. met with a Kremlin-connected attorney in an attempt to obtain information 'that would incriminate Hillary,'" the Democrats wrote, citing the emails he published. "Earlier this year, on May 12, 2017, the Department of Justice made an abrupt decision to settle a money laundering case being handled by that same attorney in the Southern District of New York.

"We write with some concern that the two events may be connected — and that the Department may have settled the case at a loss for the United States in order to obscure the underlying facts."

The Prevezon case garnered high-profile attention, given its ties to a $230 million Russian tax-fraud scheme and the Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, whose suspicious death aroused international media attention and spurred the passage of the Magnitsky Act in 2012. Denis Katsyv and Veselnitskaya have become the face of Moscow's lobbying efforts against the Magnitsky Act in recent years.

Democrats now want to know whether Veselnitskaya was "involved at any point in the settlement negotiations," and they have asked Sessions to provide the committee "with the prosecution files and any other explanatory materials related to the settlement."


They also want to know whether there was "any contact between President Trump, White House personnel, the Trump family, or the Trump campaign with the Department of Justice" regarding Prevezon, and whether Sessions discussed the case "with anyone associated with the transition team," or with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, while he was being considered for attorney general.
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Old 07-14-2017, 06:27 PM
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Why does this not surprise me that the smug little troll is showing why he is Trump's choice for Attorney General?
We'll see if the Republican chairman of the committee is willing to subpoena the information after Sessions refuses to produce it.

It may not matter because Mueller is on the case and Trump's past involvement with Russian money-laundering is pretty well known. His Atlantic City Taj Mahal casino was a money-laundering operation for which he paid $10 million in civil penalties in 2015. Trump's up to his eyeballs with the oligarchs.

http://www.reuters.com/article/trump...0VL2L120150211
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We'll see if the Republican chairman of the committee is willing to subpoena the information after Sessions refuses to produce it.

It may not matter because Mueller is on the case and Trump's past involvement with Russian money-laundering is pretty well known. His Atlantic City Taj Mahal casino was a money-laundering operation for which he paid $10 million in civil penalties in 2015. Trump's up to his eyeballs with the oligarchs.

http://www.reuters.com/article/trump...0VL2L120150211
Oh, that's right, I'd forgotten about that caper but now I sure do remember it.

I also remember somebody saying to the people of the United States, "I am not a crook".



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