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The founder of a three-on-three basketball league who claims he was offered a bribe by a one-time Qatari diplomat to arrange access to Steve Bannon said on Monday that the former diplomat is the same person photographed with Michael Cohen at Trump Tower in December 2016.
BIG3 basketball league co-founder Jeff Kwatinetz told Slate that he recognized Ahmed Al-Rumaihi in photos with Cohen that were tweeted Sunday by attorney Michael Avenatti.
Yes, 100 percent, Kwatinetz said when asked if he thought the videos and photos were of Ahmed Al-Rumaihi. Last week, Kwatinetz, who is a co-founder of BIG3 with Ice Cube, accused Al-Rumaihi in a sworn court declaration of making an attempted bribe and of suggestively boasting that Flynn had not refused our money.
Sports Trinity, Al-Rumaihis sports firm, would not confirm or deny that Al-Rumaihi was at the meeting on Dec. 12, 2016, which occurred less than two hours before a public meeting between Cohen and incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn. We do not confirm and have no basis to confirm the video, Sports Trinity said in a statement sent to Slate by Robert Siegfried, vice chairman of Kekst and Co., a communications firm; Siegfried declined to answer questions about whether or not Al-Rumaihi remains in the country at this time. Al-Rumaihis lawyer, Brian D. Hershman of Jones Day, did not respond to multiple email and phone inquiries about whether the images were of Al-Rumaihi and about his current whereabouts.
The photos were posted on Twitter on Sunday by Avenatti, who is representing the adult film actor Stormy Daniels in a lawsuit against Cohen that seeks to nullify her confidentiality agreement over an alleged affair with Donald Trump. Avenatti tweeted the images that appeared to show Al-Rumaihi entering an elevator in Trump Tower on Dec. 12, 2016, five days after news broke of the multibillion-dollar sale of 19.5 percent of the Russian fossil fuel giant Rosneft to Swiss trading firm Glencore and Qatars sovereign investment fund. (Glencore and Qatar sold off a major stake of Rosneft to China last year, but earlier this month Qatar bought back in to the Russian company for a total stake of 19 percent.)
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/michael-cohens-meetings-with-michael-flynn-and-ahmed-al-rumaihi-might-be-the-key-to-unlocking-the-steele-dossier.html
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)orangecrush
(19,617 posts)Ice Cube, Stormy Daniels, and a cast of hundreds!
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Nazis riding dinosaurs epic...
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)and Andrew Sullivan. Very complicated...I am having a hard time keeping track of all the corruption. How does Mueller do it?
orangecrush
(19,617 posts)of counterintelligence.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Typical Money Laundry technique used by Putin's Pal's.
orangecrush
(19,617 posts)if you know.
I will google it.
orangecrush
(19,617 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)It is just plain ugly how the Trumpers are stealing and sticking a finger in our eyes and bragging about it.